Writing Sprint ‘ Absolute Reality’
I pull the car into empty space at the side of the road. There’s no crunch of tyres, no engine idling, none of the stereotypes of this action that books and films would use to tell me I had stopped...
View ArticleSunday Write Up – Join in…
Welcome to another ‘writing sprint’ – feel free to join in, take a week to write your piece (no more than a couple of hours worth of writing effort required and then share here in the Comments, or...
View ArticleSunday Write Up – Join in…
Welcome to another ‘writing sprint’ – feel free to join in, take a week to write your piece (no more than a couple of hours worth of writing effort required and then share here in the Comments, or...
View ArticleSunday Write Up – Join in…
Welcome to another ‘writing sprint’ – feel free to join in, take a week to write your piece (no more than a couple of hours worth of writing effort required and then share here in the Comments, or on...
View ArticleSunday Write Up – Join in…
Back to help me keep creative during the COVID-19 lockdown, decided to do some little ‘writing sprints’ to pass the time – feel free to join in, take a week to write your piece (no more than a couple...
View ArticleJust Finished my Halloween Read…The Women in the Walls
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics My rating: 4 of 5 stars OK, so ‘technically’ I’ve not ‘just finished’ The Women in the Walls, I’m re-posting a review that I did previously for Goodreads and my...
View ArticleJust Finished…Freakonomics
So, non-fiction month… I don’t often read non-fiction, but I do really enjoy them when I do. I started Freakonomics about a couple of years ago, read the first couple of chapters/essays and enjoyed it,...
View ArticleJust Finished…If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Several friends have recommended If I Stay, by Gayle Forman, to me and it has sat languishing in my bedside table for a while now – this cover is for the version of the book I have and so must have...
View ArticleJust Finished…Monsters by Emerald Fennell
I picked Monsters up in the library because of the quirky cover. Reading the very brief blurb on the back it reminded me of a film from years ago with Kate Winslet (I think), where two odd friends...
View ArticleJust Finished…Life and Laughing by Michael McIntyre
The ‘2017 year of reading’ plan directed that November would be a comedy and so I bimbled around the library until I came across Life and Laughing by Michael McIntyre. This the second autobiography of...
View ArticleJust Finished…Anchor Leg by Jack Croxall
The Blurb… Stranded 750 million miles from Earth. Stranded with a saboteur, stranded with a killer. Humanity has spilled out into the Solar System, into a succession of giant space stations known as...
View Article‘Thank you’ to Bloggers
Sharing Mel’s recent post from her author blog on appreciation for what it means to be a blogger… Happy new year! Mel Cusick-Jones Coincidentally, another Melanie seems to appreciate bloggers too! I’ve...
View ArticleJust Finished…Slated by Teri Terry
I really liked the concept of Slated – wiping the minds of young criminals to enable them to be reintroduced to society with improved behaviours – in a recognisable dystopian view of London. The book...
View ArticleJust Finished…The Testing Trilogy
Maybe an odd few spoilers in here, so tread carefully, just as you might if you were going through The Testing yourself! In the last couple of weeks I’ve read the three books that make up ‘The Testing’...
View ArticleTony’s Review: Remix, Non Pratt
4/5 Ruby and Kaz hope that a three day outdoor music festival will clear their heads about their changing worlds. Of course, nothing goes to plan… I went with this on a recommendation from Blogs of a...
View ArticleTony’s Review: We all looked up
2/5 Four teenagers and an asteroid that’s coming to most likely kill them all and everyone else in the world in a matter of months…What would you do with the time that’s left? The premise for this is...
View ArticleTony’s Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
4/5 In a harsh dystopian America, women are stripped of all rights… It’s scary how prophetic this story is. A coup overtakes America – most members of Congress are killed in a terrorist attack and the...
View ArticleTony’s Review: The Hunted, Charlie Higson
4/5 Everyone over the age of fourteen has been turned into a flesh-craving monster, with a taste for teenage meat…The kids that are left are fighting to survive. Book six of seven. I reviewed Book...
View ArticleJust Finished…The All Souls Trilogy…
It’s taken a while to get to reviewing this series, as once I’d started the trilogy with A Discovery of Witches back in September 2015, I then bought the other two books and thought I would do a...
View ArticleTony’s Review: The Fallen, Charlie Higson
3/5 Everyone over fourteen has been infected with an illness that makes them crave human flesh…Only the kids are left to fight and survive for themselves… This is book five in a seven series set....
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