The Storyteller and her Sisters has been on my list for a long time – October 2014, in fact. I know I got this and its sequel(s) for my kindle a fair while ago, too. At last I’ve brought it
Book Review | The Storyteller and Her Sisters

The Storyteller and her Sisters has been on my list for a long time – October 2014, in fact. I know I got this and its sequel(s) for my kindle a fair while ago, too. At last I’ve brought it
Pan’s Labyrinth came out on July 2nd. Wait a minute, I hear you say, surely that’s been out for ages? Well, not the book, apparently. Guillermo del Toro directed the film and Cornelia Funke has helped him get it into
These both qualify for entries in The BookShelf Gargoyle’s Oddity Odyssey, for me, at any rate. They are united in their alternative realities and bickering. Lots of bickering! They both really good reads, though. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman I’m not
Our challenge from Chuck Wendig this week was to rewrite a fairy tale in a genre drawn at random. I got 6 – Satire – and I also wanted to make it part of my Norfolk week. I’ve always wanted
This is a quick read, and I think most of it would make great bedtime reading. Sean Noonan spills a superb description of the most wondrous fireworks you could imagine. These take up nearly half the book and would be