Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
The Etiquette of Voles is a first book by a new author, which was published last Tuesday. I saw a promotion for it on another website, possibly Natalie Aguirre’s, and pre-ordered from Amazon. It sounded that good! The Etiquette of
The Man in Black and Other Stories is, as the title indicates, a collection of short stories from Elly Griffiths. It includes one from a guest author. Odd, but fine. The Man in Black and Other Stories by Elly Griffiths
For Whom the Bell Tolls is of course a Hemingway title. It tolls for thee, I know, but I don’t know anything else about it, except it’s set in the Spanish Civil War. The more I looked at this image
Today is launch day for Poetic Justice by Dan Antion and Willow Willers. It’s a crime mystery-thriller with poetic elements, as I understood it from Willow! Poetic Justice A Rascal Todd Mystery with Brody Thompson by Dan Antion and Willow
The Wizard’s Bakery seems to be having a relaunch following early reviews. I got a pre-publication copy from Netgalley, and loved it. Well done to the publishers for addressing the other reviewers’ comments. The Wizard’s Bakery by Gu Byeong-Mo, translation
The Crossing Place brought back an instant memory for me. Nothing to do with Elly Griffiths’ first book in the Ruth Galloway series, no this involved a riding school horse who had been born to be a racehorse but just
A bookstore… I’ve always thought standing on the shoulders of giants was just fine. But now I’m thinking of taking my paperbacks inhouse. I’d love to hear of your experiences. PJ Colando, Pat Garcia, Kim Lajevardi, Melisa Maygrove, and Jean Davis The trouble with Distribution
The Listeners is marketed as Maggie Stiefvater’s first adult novel (although it’s not ‘adult’ in the erotic sense). You know I’m a Stiefvater fan, so I jumped at the chance of an ARC. Thank you to the publishers and Netgalley.
The bluebell wood was the main feature in the pictures Crispina Kemp gave us for this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge. And there were bluebells – just not as many as Crispina expected. And mine all went very quickly this year…
Vianne is a prequel to Chocolat. I can’t imagine anyone who has not heard of Chocolat, since it was a blockbuster of a film that allegedly did the book justice, and led millions to read it who wouldn’t have done
Goblins in trees, I’ve been seeing them for years… I once did a pastel picture of some beautiful lumpy trees in Epping Forest, and then did another adding in the goblin faces! I sold them both! And I discovered I
Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me sounds like it should be a great read for a kid whose grandma or pa has dementia. I’m including this in Great Middle Grade Reads this week because I thought it was an MG book
Life of Pi has been on my to-read list for several years. I remember seeing dozens of fellow-commuters reading it on the train, but I was into other things then. Now it’s the first in my Booker Prizewinner Challenge. (Library
Windflowers… well, I think these are windflowers, but the ones I know are very much paler. But I think the leaves are the same. Anyway, the picture of pink ones is my choice for Crispina Kemp‘s weekly Crimson’s Creative Challenge.
The Ghost Door comes from Ruth at Ruth Blogs Here. I just knew there was a story here when Ruth posted it to say the blog would be blank for a few days. It turned out to be 900 words