#20BooksofSummer an annual challenge hosted by Cathy at 746Books and one I'll be joining in for the first time, though I did eye it in the past as well. This is a simple and flexible challenge where you pick a list of 10, 15 or 20 books to read between 1 June and 1 September…
Shelf Control #181: Up the Country: Letters Written to Her Sister From the Upper Provinces of India by Emily Eden
Wednesday, the 20th of April, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what…
Book Review: The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky by Kim Jihyun
My thanks to Floris Books/Ingram Publishing Services and Edelweiss for a review copy of this book. The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky is a beautiful picture book which tells a story, or rather gets one to experience it, entirely through pictures, without a word of text, except a short note…
Shelf Control #173: The Yellow Room by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Wednesday, the 23rd of February, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what…
Book Review: Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang
My thanks to Inkshares and Edelweiss for a review copy of the book. Unnatural Ends is a murder mystery set in a small village in the Yorkshire moors in the 1920s involving family dynamics and secrets and centred around a rather unsettling theme. As the book opens, we meet three siblings, Alan, Roger and Caroline…
Shelf Control #169: Paths of Glory by Jeffrey Archer
Wednesday, the 19th of January, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what…
Book Review: The Second Person from Porlock by Dennis Hamley
My thanks to NetGalley and Fairlight books for a review copy of this one. The Second Person from Porlock is a novel of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, of his life and relationships, and of his poetry (particularly Kubla Khan, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel), and also of two young men who embark on…
Shelf Control #157: Poison in Paddington by Samantha Silver
Wednesday, the 27th of October, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what…
Keli Cat’s Book Corner
I've just added a new page to my blog on all things 'cats and books', find it here; if you are a book lover as well as a cat lover, I'm sure you'll like it
Upcoming NetGalley Reads/Reviews for July 2021
After a NetGalley break of sorts last year (I read I think 5 books totally in the year and put in some requests only towards the end of the year), this year I've done somewhat the opposite with a slew of requests and a nice big pile. So in this post I thought of just…
Literary Potpourri 