Into the next leg of the readathon. Just had a quick break for some food. Delicious chimichangas and some dinner conversation to break up the hours of reading. Should hopefully finish this book within these next 3 hours. Hour 7: Book/s: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Paper or Kindle?: Kindle. Pages read: 67% … Continue reading Readathon Oct 2013: Hours 7-9
Apart from dozing off a bit, I'm doing alright. Had some lunch, made by my fiance - yummy sandwiches and a packet of Worcester sauce crisps. The book I am reading is For the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. It's on the Booker Prize shortlist 2013 and is about a woman in Canada who finds … Continue reading Readathon Oct 2013: Hours 4-6
I'm running a tad late for this readathon, but better late than never! I am spoilt for choice with books, and have a huge selection of ebooks and paper books to choose from. 1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? Sunderland, UK. From the comfort of my fiance's house. 2) … Continue reading Readathon Oct 2013 : Getting started! Hours 1-3
I really need to update more regularly. Ahem. It is that time of year again. It seems hardly a few weeks since the April 2013 Readathon, but it has in fact been months. Prizes have been delivered, and now it seems the next one is upon us. I've moved jobs since then. I happen to … Continue reading Coming Soon: Twenty-four Hour Readathon (October 2013 Edition)
I remember Goosebumps quite fondly. I always wanted to collect the entire series of books, and every time the Book Fair would come to my primary school I would fondle the books hopefully, but I didn't receive pocket money so in all my years at primary school there was only one year I … Continue reading The Nostalgia Test: Goosebumps
Oh my head. It has been completely done in by all of this fuss about Ms Rowling's latest book. All because people cannot accept the use of a pseudonym and are suspicious of how the whole situation came about! The Case of the Secret Celebrity For those unaware, the news broke last week that J K … Continue reading J. K Rowling and the Great Scandal of the Pseudonym
The Reason I Jump Naoki Higashida Hardcover | 192 pages The cover of this book first caught my eye when I was in the bookshop earlier. It is a beautiful hardcover edition of the book, with a clear, well designed cover in shades of blue and white; butterflies in the pattern of a flower, reminding … Continue reading Book Review – The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20s. This article caught my eye on my Facebook feed. Now, I would have considered myself well-read and I am in my 20s.. but man... I feel so inadequate having read this list. Inadequate yet inspired. I have read a couple of the books on this list … Continue reading 65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20s
The Black Dahlia James Ellroy e-book | 384 pages Amongst the grassy plot of land, a vacant lot in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, lay the disfigured body of a young woman. Split in half, her legs spread, grass shoved inside her most intimate of places; the upper half of her body mutilated with … Continue reading Book Review: The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
The Sookie Stackhouse Series By Charlaine Harris Dead Until Dark (2001) Living Dead in Dallas (2002) Club Dead (2003) Dead to the World (2004) Dead as a Doornail (2005) Definitely Dead (2006) All Together Dead (2007) From Dead to Worse (2008) Dead and Gone (2009) Dead in the Family (2010) Dead Reckoning (2011) Deadlocked (2012) Dead Ever After (2013) The Sookie Stackhouse series. The Southern Vampire Mysteries. True … Continue reading The Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris – overview and review of Dead Ever After
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