Author of the Princelings of the East fantasy and Viridian System scifi series
Snapshots is my book review for this Saturday in the A to Z Challenge. I’ve already read a lot of titles beginning with s this year; I’m glad I continued and read this one. It helps me towards my reading
My Animals and Other Family is a clever play on the title of a Gerald Durrell book, for which the author got permission from Durrell’s family to use. The author is Clare Balding, a UK National Treasure. She went from
Subway | Palliatopia is a new YA book from S W Lothian, and looks like it could run into at least a sequel. I got an ARC from the author, who was one of the most inspirational of the authors
Death by Adverb is out this week! Thursday is launch day for Rebecca Douglass’s latest in her Pismawallops PTA cozy mystery series. It’s number three, and it’s the best yet! Check out the excerpt at the end… Death by Adverb (Pismawallops
Three Men in a Boat was suggested by one of our bookclub members. We wanted a classic read, and I welcomed this one rather than Jane Eyre or Charles Dickens. (Although I do want to reread A Tale of Two
The TBR Hole again! The ever-increasing list of books on my TBR will only ever be kept under control if I continue to go through and weed out the ones that shouldn’t be there. Since I last carried out this
Recovering Apollo 8 possibly came in a StoryBundle. It was certainly what attracted me to the bundle if so. The blurb draws you in, the author is prolific, and well-spoken of in scifi circles, and I was pleased to find
The Shadow of the Norman Arrow is book 7 in Wendy Leighton-Porter’s award-winning Shadows from the Past series. I think Wendy may have added number ten to the series since I last caught up with them – I know I
Dining Out Around the Solar System is the first in the series of the same name. I read the second one first – Dining Out with the Ice Giants, and I recommend every reader does the same. That was ABSOLUTELY
Everything is Lies came to me via Netgalley from Michael Joseph publishers thanks to my enthusiastic review of Dear Amy, probably my Book of 2016. Helen Callaghan’s new book is out 22 February, and it’s a great follow-up (not a series). Everything
The Toy Makers is a new book (out on 8th February), which I received for review from Net-Galley. I picked it purely on the blurb, which pretty much lived up to expectations, but I think focused more on the toy
Once More unto the TBR Hole: I’m sending myself into the breach again – that deep hole that is my TBR Reading list. Regular readers will know I’m reviewing those 563 books in my To-Read list on Goodreads, and ordering
The Girl Who Drank the Moon was a Book of the Month from the Great Middle Grade Reads group on Goodreads; it was an excellent choice. It’s won various awards, which can sometimes be off-putting, but I thought it deserved
I Am Thunder is a teen/ya book I received from NetGalley last year. I am trying to reduce the number of ARCs I take, but there are so many temptations that come my way it’s hard to resist. At one
I read Zero Sum Game late last year, and dithered over including it in my round-up at the year’s end. As I thought of what to say, I realised I had really enjoyed it. It’s on-theme with my new aim
Science and Islam was a book I’d added to my wishlist a while ago, that my brother gave me for Christmas, probably in 2016. It’s a non-fiction book, making it my fifth non-fiction book of 2017, and thereby keeping me
So this is the last hurrah of 2017, and I thought I’d round up the few books I’ve read recently and remind you to vote for my Book of the Year, which I’m extending to Jan 14th, and announcing on
Yes, it’s time for me to work out which is my book of the year for 2017. Last year I copped out at the last five. This year I’m going to narrow it down, and you’re going to have to
You know what Down the TBR Hole is now… last month I pruned down to 550. We start again at 562 (sigh). A reminder – I’m examining my TBR and pruning it according to Lia’s Down the TBR Hole principles:
The Narrow Bed was our bookclub’s pick for November. I felt under pressure from all the other books I had to read—but then I realised it would supply the N in my Alphabet Challenge! I wasn’t disappointed—and it was a
Young Explorers Adventure Guide is an annual collection of science fiction stories for children. I asked for the ARC from NetGalley because science fiction for middle grade readers seems to be in short supply. Judging from the number of authors
The Voyages of the Seven is the second book in the Star Agency Chronicles by R E Weber. I acquired this through Storybundle, so paid a little for it (less than $1). It is definitely worth more than that! I
I got Journey to the River Sea from my library. It was recommended at the conference I went to in 2011, which started me off as a self-published MG author. I read one of Eva Ibbotson’s (many) other books a
Time to go down the TBR Hole again. In August I did the first sweep at reducing my To Be Read list using the strategy devised by Lia at Lost in a Story. Then I did it again, and took
Tails of Dystopia is a companion volume to Tails of the Apocalypse, which I enjoyed very much indeed. This second set of animal-protagonist science fiction/dystopia short stories is as good as the first. Since some of the stories in the