Breakfast at Tiffany’s
I love the film adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany’s; it’s not just Audrey Hepburn’s style oozing out all over the place but it also has armfuls of charm. I have been told multiple times that the book is so different, which is probably why I…
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
The huge stores of human remains in our museums are an uncomfortable reminder of the oppression and inequalities of our past. Like many books on a niche subject, Severed explores heads from different angles, using history, culture and science. It’s split into fairly long chapters…
Through the Woods
A family left alone in their house awaiting their father’s return. A new wife haunted by singing at night. A brother who can’t be and a friend who only pretends to hear the dead. Something in the woods which means you don’t return the same….
5 Year Blogoversary!
Today marks the fifth birthday of Curiosity Killed the Bookworm. In some ways I feel like I’ve come full circle with this blogging thing. Like so many of you, it all started as a place to write some words about something I love, books! Then…
Tell the Wind and Fire
In the future, magic has divided humanity into light and dark. Lucie lives in the light half of the city, surrounded by luxury, receiving a certain celebrity status for her story of one who came out of the dark shining. Yet the light regime left…
A Spool of Blue Thread
A Spool of Blue Thread tells the story of the Whitshanks and their family home in Baltimore. Red and Abby live in the house his father built, a man who arrived in 1920’s Baltimore with nothing more than a trade. Over four generations the family…
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is something I remember from my childhood but I was never quite sure if I had actually read it before. Had it been read to me? Or had I merely conflagrated the adaptation with the book? Who knows, but I…
World Book Day Offerings from Rainbow Rowell and Juno Dawson
For those that don’t know, World Book Day is the kids’ version of World Book Night and with it comes a fantastic array of £1 books aimed at younger readers. School children will have received their vouchers to claim one of these books for free,…
This is Where the World Ends
Janie and Micah have been friends forever, their bedroom windows opposite each other. Yet Janie’s friendship doesn’t extend to school where keeping up appearances means she barely acknowledges Micah. When her family moves to the other side of town, they can see their world slipping…
The Month That Was… February 2016
It was great to meet some bloggers last month on the London Bookshop Crawl and I’ve even managed to read some of the books I bought already! I’ve read my challenge books for February; Modern Romance (non-fiction), The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (classic) and Through…
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…