Boy X sang to me from the teen shelf of my library bus. I thought of all those years I miss the letter X off my Alphabet reading challenge. As I walked home with it, I realised I’m not doing
Book Review | Boy X by Dan Smith
Whenever | Fiction in fifty words #Fi50 + Camp Nano 2019
Whenever is this month’s prompt for Fiction in Fifty words. You can join in. Just go to Rebecca Douglass’s page for the prompts of the month (the whole year is displayed for you, just in case you want to get
WriteClub19 opens today + Theme Reveal @AprilA2Z
Theme reveal and WriteClub19 all in one post! WriteClub19 WriteClub19 submissions open today! Hop over to DL Hammons’ website to get all the details and/or upload your story. Remember, it has to be under 500 words and not reveal your
Book Review | Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Revelation Space was the December book of the month for the Space Opera Group on Goodreads. Yes, I’m a bit late reading it, due to my library not stocking it, even thought they had the second in the series in.
Lucky Leprechauns! It’s a Giveaway Hop!
Lucky Leprechauns, it’s time for your St Patrick’s Day Giveaway! Thank you so much to Mary at Bookhounds for keeping these opportunities going! Since I’ve been busy bringing books out in the first couple of months of 2019, I thought
The Sign of Five | Bloggers’ Bash 2019
The Bloggers Bash Competition this year is on the theme of FIVE. quintus ~ cinq ~ cinco ~ fünf ~ pente ~ khms ~ wu ~ tano Or… in Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian, it is pet—
Book Review | A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove was my (physical) bookclub’s read for February. I’d heard of it, and thought it was on my TBR, but it wasn’t. Maybe I’d rejected it after going down the TBR hole once upon a time. A
#IWSG March | In which I talk about WriteClub19
Greetings, Insecure Writers – WRiTECLUB19 is just around the corner. In fact the official announcement was made on Monday, so anything I’m saying is announced at DL Hammons’ website far more authoritatively. What is WriteClub19? I thought most of my
Read an Ebook Week 2019 #ebookweek19
Read an Ebook Week runs at the beginning of March each year. Over at Smashwords, Mark Coker recommends we all take part and get in on a promotion where people just love to find new authors. I used to join
Book Review | Dining Out with the Gas Giants by Clare O’Beara
Dining out with the Gas Giants is the third in a wonderful series by Clare O’Beara. I started with the second, loved it, and added the first one last year. I don’t think there’s any problem with that approach. The
Blogging from A to Z Challenge sign up today #flashbackfriday
Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge opens today! It’s the tenth year, and I’ve done seven of them. You can sign in here. What is blogging from A to Z? A post every day of the month except
#Fi50 | No More Hearts and Flowers
No More Hearts and Flowers was a prompt I came up with for Fi50 (actually I submitted it for the February WEP but 28 days won)! In the post-Valentines days of February, I hope you don’t identify too much with
Book Review | The Age of Misadventure by Judy Leigh
The Age of Misadventure is the second novel by Judy Leigh. HarperCollins, the publishers, offered me an ARC through Netgalley, since I’d reviewed A Grand Old Time during last year’s #AtoZChallenge and loved it. Read on to find out what I thought of
An #AtoZChallenge Book Review – with J Lenni Dorner
J Lenni Dorner is my last guest for the AtoZ Challenge Book Review Blog Tour, which is part of the AtoZ’s tenth birthday celebrations. His book is yet to be published, and the posts will be part of his April
#WEP/IWSG short story challenge | 28 Days
28 days, the title for February, went around my brain for a few circuits before I got two strands of inspiration. The suggestions from the WEP team when announcing the prompt covered so many angles it was hard to find
Book Review | Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time was January’s Book of the Month for the Space Opera Group on Goodreads. It sounded really interesting, and since I’d finished my own series for the time being, I hoped to read some scifi for a change
An #AtoZChallenge Book Review – with Rebekah Loper
Rebekah Loper wrote a book as a result of her A-Z Challenge one year. Her theme – worldbuilding. Since I did the same some years later, I was delighted to see what she’d made of the subject. Answer – a
Yet another new book! Princelings Box Set 2
Another new book follows hard on the heels of Curved Space to Corsair. This time, it’s back to the Princelings series with…. The Princelings of the East Books 4-6 I said I needed to read the earlier books again before
Book Review | Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
Rebel of the Sands first caught my attention because of its gorgeous cover. I think I added it to my list pretty quickly. Then it was nominated in the Goodreads Book of the Year 2016, and I voted for it
An #AtoZChallenge Book Review – with Tony Laplume
Tony Laplume blogs from A to Z in April. One year he wrote a set of 26 character sketches which became a novella. And so it came to pass that it arrived in my hands to review as part of
#IWSG February – Details, details, details
The most miniscule details can make or break a book. Well, if you’re as picky as me, anyway. Since it’s Insecure Writers Support Group day, you can tell me whether I’m right, or too finicky, or should just lighten up
A to Z Review and Book Tour starts today
As mentioned in January, the A to Z Review and book tour blog hop runs from today to the end of February. A Book of my A to Z Challenge It’s a really interesting premise. Have you made a book
Book Review | A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison
A Pinch of Magic is new release, which I received from the publisher via Net-Galley. The blurb looked interesting, although I disliked all the gushing quotes from other authors included on Goodreads – which I have left out here. For
#FlashbackFriday | Death by Trombone by Rebecca Douglass
Flashback Friday is supposed to happen on Friday but I decided there was too much happening last week. Today is Thursday. I delved back into the archives for January posts and discovered Death By Trombone was launched in January 2016. I know
Book Review | The Body in the Snow
The Body in the Snow by Christoph Fischer was the last book I read in 2018, giving me the major achievement of completing my Mount TBR target of 36 books. I’ve missed this by two in the last two years.