Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
What are you doing in April? If you aren’t doing the A to Z Challenge yourself, please consider checking out the daily posts of those who are. Especially mine! If you plan to do it, don’t forget to sign up.
Blogging from A to Z in April – the challenge starts on Monday. And I’m not doing it this year – too much work 🙂 The guinea pigs were so keen, though, and someone gave them an idea for a
A Reflections post. I think this is one of the most enjoyable parts of the A2Z Challenge. Looking back over the month, thinking about the blogs I’ve visited and those who visited me. And so, in no particular order… Random
Zero Sum Game brings us to the end of the A to Z Challenge for another year. Yes, it’s one of those rare posts on a Sunday. But tomorrow is the first of May, and I have blogged all the
You Think You Know Me by Ayaan Mohamud is today’s book review. I do reviews every Saturday through the year (occasionally multiple books, and around Christmas other things might happen, like Best of the Year). But it’s also letter Y
X is for Kiss of the Spiderwoman. I went round the entire fiction section(s) of my library last year searching for an X I could bear to read. This was one of them, the best, and I reckoned I could
What Stars Are Made Of, by Sarah Allen, is my featured book for today’s A to Z Challenge. Not long to go now! Featured Book: What Stars Are Made Of by Sarah Allen This is a feel good book. At
Voice of the Violin is early in the Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri, and I’m wondering how I’ve managed to get to V without doing more than mention the series under M. Featured Book: The Voice of the Violin (Montalbano
The Uncommon Reader was a book selected for the physical bookclub I was part of for a time. I’m very glad I read it, as it was a wonderful book, and a rare gem beginning with the letter U! Featured:
A Thousand Perfect Things is my featured book for the letter T in this year’s A to Z Challenge. It’s a while since I read it, but the glory stays with me. Featured: A Thousand Perfect Things by Kay Kenyon
Shafter has been on my kindle a while, possibly since 2016. I’m not sure where it came from, but I suspect it was a promotional copy. It’s also been up into the top five of my ‘next to read’ on
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is my book for letter R this month. It won’t come as too much of a surprise to regular readers of my blog, but I have plenty of outstanding titles to offer you. Featured
The Queen’s Envoy is one of three laugh-aloud books by the self-styled Lord David Prosser, a gentleman of means living in a large country house in a posh part of England. The others, Barsetshire Diaries, are possibly even funnier, and
The Physicist’s Daughter is among several outstanding books I’ve read in the last couple of years. Maybe it’s a theme with me, though, women of science that had to emerge from the past. It starts my A2Z Challenge offering for
On the Beach was part of my Nevil Shute period, which was almost certainly down to Bryan Brown, the actor. It’s my pick for the letter O, anyway. Featured: On The Beach by Nevil Shute It’s a very long time