Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
This is my #Fi50 – Fiction in Fifty Words – for November, with the prompt as the title. It’s a Viridian System snippet of Dolores’ backstory, which will make little sense if you haven’t read any of Big Pete and the Swede’s adventures
My Goodreads Challenge tally is 2 books ahead of schedule, at 52 out of 60. I’m going to make it. Even more exciting, at the end of last month my Goodreads ‘Books read’ list passed 500!! Unfortunately, during this month, my TBR list went over
With the end of the Tackle TBR on Monday, I imagine you don’t need my Reading Challenge progress report this month. Oh? You do? My Goodreads Challenge tally is 4 books ahead of schedule, at 48 out of 60. I think I’m going to make
Yes, it’s time for my Reading Challenge progress report again. My Goodreads Challenge tally is finally ahead of schedule, although it easily slips behind as soon as I have a long (400 page) book to read. I don’t understand why I am
Of course, the big challenge for this month is to finish the revised draft of The Perihelix and get it to my editor. Camp ends on Friday, so how am I doing on that? Well, I’ve finished. I’ve won, in
Picking up The Janus Stone was such a relief – I was reading natural English with a sense of place that made me feel fully at home again. It was after the Victorian style of The Princess and Curdie and
I usually highlight things on my kindle by accident. I manage to look up words like ‘and’ and ‘black’ by accident too. Of course when I want to highlight something or look something up (usually when the author is using
As many of you know, after the A to Z April Blogging Challenge we are invited to go on a Road Trip during the rest of the year, visiting people we met, didn’t meet or would like to have met
I’ve had a really good go at finding some natural phenomenon beginning with Y that would fit both my A to Z theme and my Local Heroes Reading Challenge. I failed. Yellowstone National Park is not local to me, but
This is my third Challenge update, and I haven’t read any new books towards my Local Heroes target of 6. In fact I didn’t do much reading this month – until my holiday – except of the manuscript of my Dad’s memoirs,
This is my second Challenge update, and I’ve read another book towards my Local Heroes target of 6 – the Uncommon Reader. Well, some of the action took place in my county, and that’s all that counts! If you’ve already
This is my first Challenge update, and I’ve read one book towards my Local Heroes target of 6. That was Never Let Me Go, which I reviewed a week or so ago, and as I said there, it may be
This is an odd book for me, in the nicest possible way. It’s not an author I’ve read before, and it might fit into the Oddity Odyssey definition of odd author for that reason. I wanted to read it because,
You may have noticed that all the badges and counters for reading challenges have disappeared from the sidebar. Less obviously, there’s a new page called “Challenges” in the menu at the top left. As I say on that page, I’ve
A couple of weeks ago I launched a new READING CHALLENGE for 2015. Every last Wednesday of the month, for the next twelve months, I’ll be doing an update post – for participants to report in how they’re doing and