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
Book Review | Pan’s Labyrinth
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
Book Review | Daemon by Doug Dandridge
Daemon has been hanging around near the top of my TBR for years. Poor Doug Dandridge has had to wait over 5 years for me to review his book, and I bet I got it in an offer of some
Book Review | The Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn
The Company of Eight was a book I requested on Net-Galley, so I thank them and the publishers for allowing me a review copy. As usual, my review is my honest opinion of the book. The Company of Eight Harriet
Book Review | Equus – anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish
Equus was a book I received from LibraryThing, as part of their first reads initiative. It is nothing to do with Equus the play. But it is Latin for ‘horse’. Equus Ed. by Rhonda Parrish There’s always something magical about
#FridayFlash Fiction | We Never Heard Them Coming
We Never Heard Them Coming is a type of Random Title or Must Include flash fiction offering. Chuck Wendig has been collecting titles, first sentences and last sentences from his readers, ten of each. Now’s the time to select from
MG or not MG? My Book Review question
MG or not MG – a question that came up recently for two books intended for tweens and young teens. Okay, the older end of MG, but still. We often discuss what makes a book suitable for ‘middle grade’ readers
Book Review | The Camelot Kids Book 1 by Ben Zackheim
The Camelot Kids is Ben Zackheim’s second series, or at least I think so. He started publishing it after the Shirley Link series, and I’ve already reviewed a few of those. I read Part 1 of the Camelot Kids without realising
Book Review | Oy Yew #AtoZChallenge
Oy Yew is a book I got as a result of the Read 4 Review programme on Goodreads groups. Ana is a member of the Good Middle Grade Reads Group; I took up the offer of a free ebook March last
Book Review | Sea by Sarah Driver @EMTeenFiction
Sea by Sarah Driver, is the first in a new series, to be published on April 7th. Apart from the magnificent cover, I also liked the blurb, and jumped at the chance of an ARC from Net-Galley. In retrospect, I think
#FridayFlash Fiction | The Monster at the Gates of Hell
“A monster that has never been seen or imagined by anyone before.” I doubt whether such a one exists, in truth, but that was the gist of Chuck Wendig’s challenge this week. And last week I left our hapless colour-blind
#FridayFlash Fiction | The Ranger’s Tale
The Ranger’s Tale emerges from last week’s flash fiction coupled with the original story Too Much of a Good Thing. Chuck Wendig gave us a prompt to choose one of two well-known sayings (well, one was well-known, the other its cause and effect opposite).
#FridayFlash Fiction | The Road to Erebor
The Road to Erebor from David Colombo Photography is a random Flickr photo that I picked in response to this week’s Chuck Wendig prompt. I’m grateful to the photographer for such a moody, intense subject! Today’s flash fiction is just over 1100 words; it
Book Review | The Time Travellers Resort and Museum by David McLain
The Time Travellers Resort and Museum was an early reviewers book that I got via Library Thing, and as such I believe it to be a published version, not an ARC. If I’m wrong, I apologise to the author and the
Book Review | Pair Alleles by Jennifer Ellis
Pair Alleles is book 4 in the wonderfully mind-bending Derivatives of Displacement series by Jennifer Ellis. We follow twins Abbey and Caleb, who are both ‘gifted’ – Abbey starts the series at around age 12 studying with the 16-18 year old
Book Review Round-up
I raced through a few books at the end of the year (well, I didn’t race through all of them) that I didn’t get time to review, and which for various reasons I don’t feel like giving a full review
Book Review | Magnus Chase & the Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
This went on my TBR list as soon as I heard of it, and I picked up a library copy the same day I picked up the Screaming Staircase (which I’m reviewing first Saturday in January). I wasn’t disappointed! The
Book Review | Zoe & Zak and the Yogi’s Curse by Lars Guignard
This is the second in the Zoe & Zak series, which I have as a box set of the first three books, having read the third one first Zoe and Zak and the Tiger Temple, and the first one a
Book Review | Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
The Blurb Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Characters from books literally
Book Review | The Vanished Knight by M. Gerrick
I won this book during the Realms-Faire last year, and read it in the summer. Sorry to have taken so long to get around to the review, but here it is now. The Vanished Knight (The War of Six Crowns
Book Reviews | The Phantom Tollbooth and Zoe & Zak and the Ghost Leopard
A double review today, two Middle Grade books, very different in style, which is an interesting thought about the difference between current expectations and those of the 1960s, which are, after all, fifty years ago. The Phantom Tollbooth By Norton
#Tackle TBR Readathon Challenge
Welcome, everybody, to my Challenge for the Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon 2016. First off, I’m going to explain about my series, then I’ll set you a Challenge, and then there’s the giveaway. The Princelings of the East by Jemima Pett
Book Reviews | When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead and Magyk by Angie Sage
These were Great Middle Grade Reads books of the month for June, and July/August. The first was nominated as a potential ‘future classic’, and which it may be, but I’m not sure, and the second was nominated as a series read… and
#FlashbackFriday | Sir Woebegone and the Dragon
It seems to be a long time since I last wrote a Sir Woebegone story. In fact the last one was in February. He’s another who started as a minor character, this time The Empress and the Peanut, and then
Double Book Review | ‘Up Up and Away’ and ‘Karmack’
These were two middle grade books I read during my Clean Sweep Challenge in May, and they couldn’t be more different. Up, Up, and Away: Advice and Adventures from the Future Authors and Astronauts of Farnsworth Aerospace The lengthy title