Every February the wonderful Bex organises the London Bookshop Crawl and this year it’s gone online, with videos, featured bookshops and offers. I joined in with the chat last night, and came over all nostalgic. So I’m visiting a few shops online and buying more books that I really don’t need. It almost feels like the real thing, with less cake.
I shamelessly used Scully’s puppy photos to win an copy of Dog’s Best Friend by Simon Garfield. It arrived today and Scully is very disappointed that it isn’t edible or fun. She always sniffs my book-shaped post with excitement, you’d think she’d have learned by now…
So this week I read The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara about the woman who designed the Creature and was written out of horror movie making history by a jealous boss. I am glad to have learned about Milicent but I’m not sure there was enough material to justify a whole book.
Then last night I read The Sad Ghost Club which is a very cute graphic novel about social anxiety. Sign me up to the club!
New books acquired:
Rescue Me by Sarra Manning (ebook)
Take a Hint Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert (ebook)
Dog’s Best Friend by Simon Garfield (won)
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…