link: My Favourite Books: The Toymaker by Jeremy de Quidt The Toymaker is beautifully written by Jeremy de Quidt. It’s deeply dark and disturbing with touches of the macabre that will scintillate younger and older readers alike. The action is vivid and moves the story forward as much as the quest to find out the [...]
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Book-o-sphere Round-up : 10 January Edition
I love doing the link posts. It gives me a good excuse to hunt around on other peoples blogs, which is usually a Sunday morning thing. So the plan is, hopefully to post a Book-o-sphere Round-up every Sunday. These are going to be in a random order as it’s going to depend on the order [...]
Round-Up: Other 2009 Book Lists
Here is a selection of 2009 Book Lists by some of my favourite bloggers. I’ve added a few comments along the way but they’re not exhaustive by any means. My Favourite Books: MFB Best of 2009 – Liz’s Choices It’s been an incredible year, stuffed full of reading goodness and it’s been utter hell deciding [...]
Summer Reads 2009
My To Be Read pile count match the leaning Tower of Pizza – though I think mine wobbles more. To bring it to some sort of order as well as to bring some focus here are my choices for Summer Reads 2009. I’ve organised them into batches and I have to complete each batch before [...]
Comment: Year in Review – Half Way
I’ve read and reviewed 27 books so far this year, which is one for every week more or less. I’m thinking that’s pretty good. I’ve made a list below with a few quotes and links if you’d like to see some of my thoughts on them. The challenge comes from picking highlights as each is [...]
Release Round-Up: Missing from May and New to June, Mostly
I had a request for more summary posts on the blog rather than spreading promotional posts out of over the month. You might still see a few promotional posts this month either because I’ve only just heard about a book and it can’t wait until July or that I’ve forgotten about it and I want [...]
I’m back…
….aren’t you glad? Sometimes it’s great to have a recharge and a reflect and so I have. I’ve just finished Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher, which was brilliant, but also means that I now owe the blog three book reviews. The other two are for A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin and [...]
Reading Update: March Reading Pile
Last month I set myself a challenge to read the following eight books in February: The Secret War Twelve This is Not a Game Hunter’s Moon A Madness of Angels Deep Water The Island at the End of the World. Gabble and Other Stories How did I do? I read four in full (This is [...]
Links and Comment: Sunday 8th February Edition
Starting with a Giveaway!’ A Madness of Angels’ – Kate Griffin thanks to Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review. If you want to see if it’s worth wining he’s got a review up tomorrow, hopefully. Graeme also has a review of The Secret War by M. F. Curran, which has spurred me on to try and finish [...]
Links: Playing Catch-Up
Now that Christmas is over I’m trying to catch up with the internet. Amazingly my internet-free time has been mostly reading. And I’ve been reading on a new toy but I’ll tell you more about that in another post. I’m sure some of you can guess. And I love it! Robert @ Fantasy Book Critic [...]
