Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Among the many challenges this year I included the BookShelf Gargoyle’s Oddity Odyssey, I signed up for the award of common or garden weirdie with a target of six books, with no particular concerns for which of the categories Bruce Gargoyle
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
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
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
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