Category: Book Club
Last Leaves Falling by Sarah Benwell
Buy at Amazon And these are they. My final moments. They say a warrior must always be mindful of death, but I never imagined that it would find me like this . . . Japanese teenager Sora is diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Lonely and isolated, Sora turns to the ancient wisdom of the…
Netgalley challenge – clearing up my stats.
Netgalley is a wonderful wonderful site if you’re a book blogger. It’s a place where publishers and authors share electronic galleys of their forthcoming books – you can request access and if you’re allowed, you get to send a copy winging its way to your device of choice. Good, right? But it’s really really easy…
300 picture books wk 3. Or thereabouts
Continuing our 300 picture book trek – another good week, including our first library visit. Last week we got up to 23 books, this week we’re totalling 35. Bubble trouble UFO diary. Satoshi Kitamura Books always everywhere @nosycrow The littlest dinosaur @KidsBloomsbury Rosie’s walk Rex wrecks it Grandad Pot Goodnight Tiptoe Polly Dunbar The Hueys…
The Weebles from Weebledown Farm
Buy Weebles Wobbly Farm Figure and Base Assortment at Argos. This here is a Weeble. It’s a dog. It’s part of a new range of Weebledown Farm toys from Character toys, and it should have a little friend, a sheep, but he seems to have wobbled off into hiding. Retailing at around £4.99, there’s a…
Boys don't cry by Malorie Blackman
Boys Don’t Cry | Despite Malorie Blackman’s reputation, I’ve somehow come this far without reading any of her work. I finally put that right this week, when one of Big’s friends lent me Boys don’t cry, and I read it in one sitting. (Who needs sleep anyway?) Blurb: In Boys Don’t Cry, bestselling author Malorie…
Mind Games: Teri Terry
Pre order at Mind Games | Pre order on kindle | Pre order at Hive On the day I found out I’d been longlisted in the UKYA blogger awards it seems only appropriate to review a forthcoming UKYA title. (And run back through my archives making sure ones I’ve reviewed before are tagged 😉 I’ve…
A selection of favourites – 300 picture books week 1.
I’m really enjoying focussing on reading different picture books every day, although there are obviously quite a lot of rereads too, in order to hit the 300 Picture book target. I’ve fallen slightly behind in the daily review over at Shingle Street, sigh, but I’m keeping up with instagrams of the covers, which when I…
Empire (Chronicles of the Invaders 2) – John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard
Empire (Chronicles of the Invaders 2) As a first book to kick off 2015, and my new Read 52 challenge, this has set the bar high – it’s an excellent read. I would recommend starting with Conquest (Chronicles of the Invaders 1), obviously if you’ve not already read it though (thought I’d reviewed it but…
300 Picture books!
Last year I took part in Child led chaos 300 picture book challenge. I made it to 150 I think, and then lost track, heart, the plot and so on. (There were some really difficult bits towards the middle of last year.) Anyway, as Anne-Marie’s children are moving on to chapter books, she’s decided against…
Just ten minutes
No big resolutions here – I’m still smarting from the complete failure of this time next year two years ago. So I’m not trying for anything SMART 😉 Instead, a word. Dreams. I will dream. I will dream small, and big, and everywhere in between. And I’ll try to regularly (won’t say daily) try to…
