Quickie Reviews
You may have noticed Readathon was last weekend and as always, this means a bit of a catch-up on reviews is required. Here’s my brief thoughts on what I read (plus an essay collection I also finished last weekend). One of my favourite YA novels…
Incoming: Ninja Book Swap Edition
What with Ninja Book Swap and my upcoming birthday, I’ve not really been buying books lately and I have loads of unread ones to keep me going. However this week I did get an amazing Ninja Book Swap package from Faith, with goodies for me…
The Road
A man and a boy make their way along a road through a destroyed and desolate country. Where no one they meet can be considered a friend. There is no food other than what they can scavenge from already ransacked buildings. I don’t mind bleak….
Top Ten Films to Watch on Halloween
My Top Ten Halloween post got me thinking about horror movies, of which there are very many bad ones. I think before CGI came along, filmmakers put more effort into atmosphere and for the most part, I prefer older horror. Though there’s also a place…
Top Ten Halloween
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I am a bit of a wimp so I don’t read much horror at all, but I guess there’s more to Halloween than being scary these days. My choices are 10 books to get…
#Readathon: The End
Local time: 13:00 Hours spent reading: 19 Pages read since last update: 430 Total pages read: 1164 Books finished: 4 Books read: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, Pyongyang by Guy Delisle, Ten by Gretchen McNeil, The Divine and the Wicked volume 1 by Kieron…
#Readathon Mini Challenge – Draw It Out!
Welcome to Hour 23’s Mini Challenge! You’re still with us! Good job! 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 other book you’ve read during…
#Readathon: Hour 18
Local time: 06:00 Hours spent reading: 12.5 Pages read since last update: 22 Total pages read: 734 Books finished: 2 Currently reading: Ten by Gretchen McNeil Books read: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater + Pyongyang by Guy Delisle So the keeping eyes open wasn’t…
#Readathon: Hour 13
Local time: 01:00 Hours spent reading: 12 Pages read since last update: 238 Total pages read: 712 Books finished: 2 Currently reading: Ten by Gretchen McNeil Books read: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater + Pyongyang by Guy Delisle I enjoyed Pyongyang; it was much…
#Readathon: Hour 10
Local time: 22:00 Hours spent reading: 9 Pages read since last update: 236 Total pages read: 474 Books finished: 1 Currently reading: Pyongyang by Guy Delisle Books read: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Yay, I finished a book! My second book is a graphic…
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…