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 Round-up
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
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
W is for Windemere #atozchallenge
Windemere: A place of magic, of dragons, of evil beasts that live under the earth and rise up to snare the unwary, of desolate wastelands, and green fields and forests. A good place for my W post in my world-building
P is for Pern
In my world-building A to Z we’ve reached P, for which I’ve selected Pern, the world created by Anne McCaffrey for her Dragonriders series. In a nutshell, the stories are adventures, often featuring strong, powerless young women (and men) with special talents
Helliconia Spring by Brian Aldiss
Helliconia Spring – the first of the Helliconia trilogy by Brian W Aldiss. It came along at a time when I found the books too large and turgid to get into – I don’t know what I read instead, but
Blog Tour & Book Review: Cupcakes vs. Brownies: Zimmah Chronicles by Scott King
Welcome to the first day of the Zimmah Chronicles Tour, hosted by CBB Book Promotions and starring author Scott King. There are three books in this Middle Grade fantasy series featured in the tour, so I recommend you go looking for other
M Pax’s Realms Faire starts today
I signed up for this a couple of months back, not entirely sure of what I was letting myself in for. There is an organiser, M Pax, and a number of people who are hosting a tournament of on-line games (see link
Book Review Round-up
Since the Tackle TBR challenge, I’ve had a slowdown in my reading rate. But there were a few books I hadn’t reviewed before that challenge started, and with the Book v Movie last week, I felt the need to catch