The Month That Was… April 2015
Hurrah for readathon! I really was feeling my reading mojo sliding away this month but readathon got me right back on track, with 13 books in total read in April. Although now it means I have lots of review writing catch up to do! A…
A Space Traveller’s Guide to the Solar System
Do you look up at the night sky and wish you could travel through space and visit the planets of our solar system? Do you know what the weather’s like on Venus? What’s life really like travelling in space? Mark Thompson is about to take…
#readathon complete
Local time: 13:00 Hours spent reading: 20 Pages read: 1493 Books finished: 4 Feeling: ready for a lie down Raised for charity: £163.93 Woohoo, we made it! Thanks to everyone who shared their drawing for my mini challenge. I will peruse them all later and…
#Readathon Mini Challenge – Draw It Out!
Welcome to Hour 20’s Mini Challenge! So what’s your current book about? No, don’t tell me in words, I want to see a picture! Please draw a scene from your current read (or any one you’re read during the readathon). You’ve been awake at least…
#readathon: hour nineteen
Local time: 07:00 Hours spent reading: 14 Pages read: 1177 Books finished: 4 Feeling: undead Raised for charity: £154.77 So it was the lurgy after all and I gave in and went to bed at 3am. Going to try and carry on at a leisurely…
#readathon: hour thirteen
Local time: 01:00 Hours spent reading: 12 Pages read: 949 Books finished: 3 Feeling: bleary eyed Raised for charity: £150.49 Well I’ve hit my fundraising target at least, though that doesn’t mean I’m stopping just yet. It is past my normal bedtime now and I’m…
#readathon: hour nine
Local time: 21:00 Hours spent reading: 8 Pages read: 620 Books finished: 2 Feeling: full Raised for charity: £143.20 The Little Black Classic edition of The Yellow Wall-Paper actually contained three stories, so I read them all but the title story was definitely the strongest….
#readathon: hour five
Local time: 17:00 Hours spent reading: 4 Pages read: 306 Books finished: 0 Feeling: hayfeverish Raised for charity: £136.06 Waaah why has my hayfever hit me now? Or maybe it’s the dreaded lurgy? At least Anna and the French Kiss has been distracting me nicely…
#readathon: getting ready to rumble
Local start time: 13:00 Hours spent reading: 0 Pages read: 0 Books finished: 0 Feeling: ready for action! Raised for charity: £129.00 I’m going to stress, sleeping is not a failure. I thoroughly recommend a nap, especially for those of us starting in the afternoon….
More UK Goodreads Giveaways
Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins by James Runcie 10 copies, UK only Ends 1st May Nelly Dean by Alison Case 10 copies, UK + Ireland Ends 8th May The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club by Marlena De Blasi 20 copies, UK only Ends…
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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…