Top Ten Beach Reads
This week’s Top Ten (hosted by The Broke and the Bookish) is featuring our best beach reads. The main problem for me this week is that I read everything down the beach. I live literally two minutes walk away and in winter, I can just…
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
IMWAYR is hosted by Sheila @ Book Journey and is a little round-up of the week for bloggers that read. Books I’ve read: When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman 5/5 Mortal Remains by Kathy Reichs 2/5 The Radleys by Matt Haig 4/5 The…
The Final Evolution
The Final Evolution is the fifth book in the Avery Cates sci-fi series by Jeff Somers. I will disclose the fact that I haven’t read the first four books and therefore my review is not from the point of view of someone following the series….
Introducing the CKTB Forum
Curiosity Killed The Bookworm now has its very own forum! Not all the exciting at the moment but it’s an experimental idea to make the blog a bit more interactive. More Info Take me to the forum now! In other news, I now own www.curiositykilledthebookworm.com…
The List
My list is a bit of a hodge-podge and by no means full of classics or literary greats, though there are some included. My participation in the challenge is a vain attempt to get through some of those books I feel I’ve had for far…
The Unremarkable Heart
One of the positives of electronic publishing is that it’s easier to get short stories out into the world without having to produce an anthology. Karin Slaughter’s The Unremarkable Heart is quite a clever bit of marketing for her full length novels, Broken (out in…
The Slaughteryard
I have learned something this morning. That’s good going for 10:30 on a Saturday morning and it’s all thanks to The Slaughteryard by Esteban Echeverria, or more accurately, The Friday Project’s book that includes this Argentinian classic. El Matadero is reputed to be one of…
The Radleys
“We’re middle-class and we’re British. Repression is in our veins.” The Radleys live in a village in Yorkshire. They are your typical middle class family, Peter is a doctor, Helen paints inoffensive watercolours, they have a son and a daughter, Rowan and Clara. Rowan feels…
Book Blogger Hop
In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with…
Back in the Swapping Saddle
So… my book buying ban hasn’t gone so well. At first I managed to avoid spending money on books but made up for it by getting review copies, going to the library and mooching. I also allowed myself any pre-ordered books and generally the book…
Black Sun
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. The opening line may seem like something any mother would tell her son, but in the case of Serapio, his mother truly believes he will become the Crow God reborn. She blinds him,…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Just let me dust off this blog thing, I have a review for you! One of my anticipated reads released during lockdown was the follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. If you read that, of course will will be dying to know what happened to…