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Review of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
As a big fan of Scott Westerfeld‘s Uglies series (think post-apocalyptic world controlled by plastic surgery of both body and mind) I was eager to begin this new venture into the wonderfully bizarre...
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Review of The Toymaker by Jeremy de Quidt
The Toymaker by Jeremy de Quidt attracted me at once with its creepy cover showing a sinister wooden doll pointing at a card marked ‘Lies’ while another one marked ‘Truth’ lies beside it. Essentially...
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Review of Skulduggery Pleasant – Dark Days by Derek Landy
I promised recently to review Skulduggery Pleasant – The Faceless Ones. Well, time has moved in and I was lucky enough to receive MORE book tokens (thank you, thank you, thank you!) and so I returned...
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Review of ‘Monsters of Men’ (Chaos Walking Book 3) by Patrick Ness
Anyone like me who has just finished the last book of Patrick Ness’s amazing Chaos Walking trilogy will no doubt be experiencing the same symptoms: shock, sadness and a sigh of satisfaction at the...
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I got a Kindle for Christmas!
Why did no one ever tell me how lovely the Kindle is? It’s sleek, beautiful, a doddle to use, and when you ‘put it to sleep’ (bless!) it shows you a nice little drawing of an author, at random. Or a...
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Review of Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
I first heard of Incarceron at the 2010 Winchester Writers’ Conference at a seminar about Young Adult Dystopian fiction. The premise, a futuristic prison suspended from a keychain, sounded intriguing,...
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Digging up Dracula
Having free access to the classics on my new Kindle is a great opportunity to catch up on all those famous titles that I’ve heard so much about but never read. Crime and Punishment was my first choice,...
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Shelfari
I’ve just stumbled across Shelfari, a new social networking community based around a virtual bookshelf where you can record the books you have read and are planning to read. You can rate them, review...
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I want to live in a Ffordian world!
Jasper Fforde is a true original, and luckily for his fans a prolific one too. He has been compared to Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Monty Python. He is fiendishly clever with a wicked sense of...
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My Christmas reading pile
I thought I’d take this photo of the books I got for Christmas sitting on my bedside shelf. I’ve read some of them but they looked so nice sitting there, all lovely and inky and wordy… Am I in danger...
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