Campaign for Real Books: Apocalypse Edition
An argument for paper-based books in a post-apocalyptic world… Insulation The next ice age is upon us, make sure your home is properly insulated, or at the very least line your walls with books. The dense paper will help keep what heat you have inside….
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. This week is an exciting one as I’m off to the Simon & Schuster blogger event on Wednesday (let me know if you’ll be there…
Not Just For Stormtroopers: Sci-Fi Group Read #3
I’m sorry, I forgot to post a poll for March’s group read and have ended up grabbing a book off my shelves that I haven’t read yet either. This month, lets prove that genre and literary fiction aren’t mutually exclusive with one of Margaret Atwood’s…
Wonder
On the inside, August is a normal 10 year old boy. Born with severe facial deformities, he has been home schooled until now. This is the story of his first year at school. Wonder is told from a variety of first person perspectives, starting with…
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Harold and Maureen are a retired couple, driven apart emotionally by the actions of an absent son. One morning Harold receives a letter from Queenie Hennessy, a friend from his past. She has cancer and she is dying in a hospice in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, the other…
Carpe Corpus
You may remember when I was flying through the Morganville Vampires series, reading them back to back for some light relief. I had to force myself to put them down at the end of Lord of Misrule to get back to my normal reading material….
Winners Announced!
Thank you to everyone who stopped by during the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop – I had a whopping 200 entries. I hope those of you that are new followers will carry on visiting now and then. It’s my blogoversary next month so there will be…
Me Before You Biscuits
I won these lovely iced biscuits* via Twitter in celebration of the release of Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. Thanks to both Penguin and Biscuiteers for these pretty and yummy biscuits. There is a Biscuiteers book available which I’m thinking of buying however I’m…
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. It’s been a productive week blogwise for once! Books I’ve read: Angelic by Kelley Armstrong 3/5 Dolphin Way: Rise of the Guardians by Mark Caney…
