Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Campaigning came to mind after I got an email from publisher saying roughly: as I enjoyed Lissa Evans’ previous book(s), perhaps I’d like to read this one. This one is called Small Bomb at Dimperley, and I’m still dithering. But
The Orchid Outlaw was published this month. It gives me a chance to redress the balance from books I should have read years ago where climate policy is now hopelessly out of date, to an up-to-date account of one man
Fledgling. I always dither about words with -dg- combined with -ling when writing them. Some surnames and placenames have an e, some don’t. Why? Swan. That’s this week’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. Fledgling was last week’s. I
Birdgirl is an autobiography by a young birder. Thank you, netgalley and the publishers, for the chance to review it. It was not easy to read. Some ARCs are perfectly well formatted. However, I’ve had several where the digits are
Old Baggage is my book review this week, and I’m still working out how to link in the #30DaysWild aspect. You’ll find out how I did after you’ve read the review! Thank you to Net-Galley and the publisher who provided a
Environment haiku Safe in green spaces; Oceans devoid of plastic; Dreams are not enough. My environment haiku plea today for everyone to safeguard our world, and the habitats every creature depends on, for our safety, for our food security
This is part of a tour from I Am A Reader, and updates my review of 2013. Stop by tomorrow for my review of the latest book in this exceptional series. Treasure by S. Smith It’s 2077. There’s no apocalypse,
It’s a bad time for environmentalists in the UK at present. The new government chucked out just about everything we’ve been working on for the last fifteen years, and even when they do say policy is one thing e.g. protect
After my rave review of last year for Seed Savers: Treasure, the first in the series, you might ask, why did I take so long to read this? The answer was quite simply too many other books getting in the
This is a book I found through Twitter, probably on one of its free kindle days. It looked like a mad-cap adventure thriller on a boat in Mexico – and that’s what it is! Hetta Coffey is a woman who
About the Book Title: Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble (Book #1) Author: D. Robert Pease Publication Date: July 22, 2013 Publisher: Evolved Publishing (2nd Edition) Number of pages: 214 Recommended age: 9+ Summary: Noah lives for piloting spaceships through time, dodging
This is a Middle Grade SciFi book about gardening. Actually it is about escape from totalitarian regimes and a return to fresh food and freedom of choice to grow it, but on the surface it is just about 12 year