I love Sarah Painter’s Urban Fantasy series, Crow Investigations, so I was excited to read the first in her new Unholy Island Series. Like urban fantasy, this is set in the ‘real world’ but with magical and/or mythical elements, but the difference with this series is that instead of being set in a big cityContinue reading “The Ward Witch (Unholy Island Book 1) – Sarah Painter – 16.07.23”
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Bound: An Alex Verus Novel – Benedict Jacka- 12.07.23
I had started this book a wee while ago, and then paused it to read the Silo trilogy, since I was excited about that because of watching the Silo TV show, and then finished this book after I’d read all three of the silo books, so my impression of it was probably not helped byContinue reading “Bound: An Alex Verus Novel – Benedict Jacka- 12.07.23”
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley (AUDIOBOOK) – Sean Lusk (Author), Clare Corbett (Narrator), Bert Seymour (Narrator) – 08.07.23
Early on in this book I was struck (and a bit irritated) by how the plot seemed to borrow so much from two fabulous books that I have recently read: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley and The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner. Like The Watchmaker of Filigree street, the protagonist was aContinue reading “The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley (AUDIOBOOK) – Sean Lusk (Author), Clare Corbett (Narrator), Bert Seymour (Narrator) – 08.07.23”
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver (AUDIOBOOK) – 05.07.23
This is Barbara Kingsolver’s modern retelling of the Dickens’ Classic, David Copperfield. In my late teens/early twenties I went through a Dickens phase and some of them really stick in my mind (Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations) but I couldn’t remember if I’d read David Copperfield, and I certainly couldn’tContinue reading “Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver (AUDIOBOOK) – 05.07.23”
Wool – Book 1 of 3: Silo Series – Hugh Howey – 26.06.23
Shift – Book 2 of 3: Silo Series – Hugh Howey – 02.07.23 Dust – Book 3 of 3: Silo Series – Hugh Howey – 05.07.23 I first read Wool ages ago, and found it a bit of a slog, so didn’t bother, at that time, to buy and read the remaining two books inContinue reading “Wool – Book 1 of 3: Silo Series – Hugh Howey – 26.06.23”
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath – Book 2 of 2: Left-Handed Booksellers of London (AUDIOBOOK) – Garth Nix, Marisa Calin (narrator) – 18.06.23
It’s hard for me to do this book justice with a review, because of a fault that I have which is that I don’t like narrators with very post English accents. I’ve looked up the narrator of this series: Marisa Calin and she was born in America, and yet she talks like a member ofContinue reading “The Sinister Booksellers of Bath – Book 2 of 2: Left-Handed Booksellers of London (AUDIOBOOK) – Garth Nix, Marisa Calin (narrator) – 18.06.23”
Strange Sally Diamond – Liz Nugent – 18.06.23 46
At first this seems like yet another book about a person on the autism spectrum getting things comically wrong by being too literal – the book begins with Sally Diamond putting her adoptive father’s dead body in a trash bag and into their homestead incinerator because he had made a (we assume joking) comment toContinue reading “Strange Sally Diamond – Liz Nugent – 18.06.23 46”
The Silence Project – Carole Hailey – 16.06.23
This was another book recommended to me by my daughter, Becca. I do like sharing reading with others, I feel like each shared book links our interior worlds a tiny bit more and makes us a little closer to being kindred spirits. So, The Silence Project is written as if it’s a true story (withContinue reading “The Silence Project – Carole Hailey – 16.06.23”
The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye: Five Fairy Stories – A S Byatt – 13.06.23
I watched the movie with Tilda Swinton ‘3000 Years of Longing’ and loved it, so I wanted to read the book (or short story) on which it was based. The other stories in the book are more traditional type fairy stories, but the Titular story, on which the movie was based is about a academicContinue reading “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye: Five Fairy Stories – A S Byatt – 13.06.23”
11.22.63 – Stephen King (AUDIOBOOK) – 08.06.23
I very much enjoyed listening to this audiobook! Loved the story, loved the narrator, I even loved the bit at the end where the author talks about writing the book! I’m back from my recent trip to Japan and one of the things I brought back was a kit to make a miniature old fashionedContinue reading “11.22.63 – Stephen King (AUDIOBOOK) – 08.06.23”
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