“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz
I’m a sucker for a beautiful cover, and I just fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it. When it arrived I just dove in and was fascinated by all the charts and illustrations, it was jam-packed. Ranging from very early theories of classification based on religious placement of humans and …
Makiia Lucier. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. (416p) ISBN 9781328604293 A land devastated by betrayal, full of intrigue and beset by sea serpents. Isle of Blood and Stone has been one of my favourite recent reads. It is set in a low-fantasy setting with ghosts and sea serpents with as flavour of the Spanish main. …
Lissa Evans. David Fickling Books. (250p) ISBN 9781910989449 Wed Wabbit had been kicking around my TBR pile for quite a while and kept getting put down until I decided to go for it as it was going to be the 8-12 book club book for the month. I instantly regretted it, by it I mean …
Neil Gaiman. Headline Publishing Group. (736p) ISBN 9780755322817 An American road trip with a difference, new gods meet old gods to fight it out for supremacy and Shadow is at the centre of it all. From the first chapter I was entranced at Neil Gaiman’s imagination and writing. Together they developed a story that was …
The Last Children of Tokyo another book that I saw on the trolley as I was shelving and was instantly fascinated by the cover. It also fits in with my goal of reading more books which weren’t originally written in English. Looking at a world in the near future, set in the Tokyo of this …
Melancholic. This is about the only word that can be used to describe Never Let Me Go, it is there from the start to the end. Always on the verge of crying. This is such a well-crafted elegy to the dead or those about to die. Nothing is clear and the characters see their lives …