Cold war dragons and leaky wellies… a weekly check-in
I finished the Popsugar Reading Challenge this week! Just one left on ATY and I’m freeee! Which is a silly thing to say because I choose to do these challenges, but it’s been a year. I’m looking forward to catching up with some of my…
Let snoozing dogs snooze… a weekly check-in
Not much going on this week but I did write a blog post about boarding school stories. I read and loved The Year After You by Nina de Pass at the weekend and it made me think of how many boarding school stories I’d read…
Boarding School Stories FTW
I’ve found myself reading a lot of books set in boarding schools recently. I’ve always enjoyed this kind of setting, maybe its appeal stems from when, as a teenager, I daydreamed of being sent away to a more exciting place, with new opportunities for friendship,…
Crisp mornings, autumn colour and a muddy dog… a weekly check-in
Well, back to lockdown. Things are not too different for me to be honest, I’ve been working from home since March and we tend only go out to walk Scully, which we’re still allowed to do. I don’t know how crazy she would get if…
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…