Category: Book Club
Just reading
I’ve read three books this week. The kindle tells me how long I’ve got left, so instead of frittering my evening away on social networks, I’m reading. I love to read. The reviewing is more of a mixed bag. I hate to think of an author reading a bad review. Or not even a bad…
Station Eleven. Survival is insufficient.
Buy at hive Buy at amazon Buy on Kindle An explosion of Georgia Flu sweeps across the globe, with a mortality rate of 99%. What happens next? I’ve read a lot of post apocalyptic dystopian fiction. It might even be my favourite subset of my favourite genre in fact. Most of it is action packed,…
Queen of the Tearling
Buy at hive Buy at Amazon Buy on Kindle I’ve been trying to work my way through my (embarrassing) backlog of books for review. I tend to neglect the netgalley ones because I can’t actually see them (or fall over them, or have them fall on me (and oh how I wish I was kidding))…
Gracefully Grayson
pre order at Amazon What if who you are on the outside doesn’t match who you are on the inside? I’m not sharing the blurb for this book, beyond the question above, because it’s a bit of a spoiler to say the least. Grayson is a lonely boy. He lives with his aunt, uncle and…
Rereading Enid Blyton
Buy at Amazon I ordered myself a copy of The Secret Island from ebay. It was always one of my most favourite Blytons – the independent children, running away and living their little self sufficient life on an idyllic island in the middle of a lake. I’ve started reading it out loud to Smallest, but…
Reading in the garden – Earth Flight.
I have a lot on my todo list. order paperback| order kindle | order at Hive So obviously, what I did yesterday, was sit in the garden and read a book. I’ve already read and reviewed Earth Girl and Earth Star by Janet Edwards, so I was desperate to get my hands on book 3…
A summer of Sylvanians
Recently we received a Sylvanian Family set to review. Buy at Amazon | Buy at Play.com Surprisingly, this is our first close encounter with Syvlanians. Many of the childrens’ friends have had them, we’ve just never got round to it somehow. Now that we have, I’m really not sure why. I was a bit nervous…
The girl with all the gifts
Buy at Amazon |Buy at hive|Buy on kindle Book description from Amazon: NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks…
Read 52: Red
When I did my update post last week, I forgot to mention Red. I think I won this one. Although it might have been sent for review. In which case woohoo, I’m reviewing it! (And if not, and I did win it, bonus for the publisher 😉 ) (turns out it was a fellow book…
Our summer with Playmobil, pirates and London ahoy!
Followers of my various social media streams will have noticed an increase in Playmobil activity over the last couple of weeks. As part of the playologist program, we had a fabulous delivery of a 5135 Large Pirate Ship along with Jungle Animals and Off-Road Vehicle. As you can imagine, these are really rather popular 🙂…
