Mysterious rocks… a weekly check-in
Someone’s been leaving painted rocks around town. The first I spotted was a slightly terrifying hippo-creature: Is someone trying to send a message? It is some pagan ritual? Are they worshipping the hippo gods? Maybe it’s to raise awareness of the potential hippo cull in…
Virtual bookshop crawling, monsters and ghosts… a weekly check-in
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…
Witches, demons and a missing piece… a weekly check-in
I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time tweaking things on the blog that I doubt anyone but me will look at. I’ve added follow links to the sidebar, so please give them a click, and I’ll be running a celebratory giveaway tomorrow, so keep your…
New Look Blog!
This week’s check-in comes with a brand new look for Curiosity Killed the Bookworm! Yup, I’ve finally moved it from Blogger onto self-hosted WordPress after nearly ten years. I still have a few things to sort out and fiddle with, but hopefully the site will…
The perils of book buying… a weekly check-in
So this time Jay Kristoff broke Waterstones. I think retailers need to be made more aware of the risks of doing a special edition of one of his books. Through the highly weird workaround of turning off the wifi I got an order in for…
Cobwebs everywhere… a weekly check-in
Days can get monotonous right now but to break up the dreariness we had a hoar frost at the weekend, which coated all the spiderwebs and tree branches, making our daily walk quite magical. It’s amazing how much of the world is covered in cobwebs!…
Refreshed and raring to go… a weekly check-in
This is my fourth blog post of the year! I feel I needed a couple of weeks off work to detach from reality a bit. I still find myself doomscrolling now and then but I’m trying to redirect my attention into more productive things, like…
My festive reading… a weekly check-in
Things are getting a bit more active on my blog, there’s a five star review of Legendborn if you missed it and I rounded up a selection of 2021 releases for the first of my Popsugar Reading Challenge inspired posts. Next week, afrofuturism! I’ve been…
Getting into the Christmas spirit… a weekly check-in
Got our Christmas tree at the weekend, watched a Christmas film (Last Christmas with Emilia Clarke, which was cute and not as predictable as I’d thought it would be), listened to Christmas music, set my Teams background to A Muppet Christmas Carol and ate some…
Still plodding along… a weekly check-in
Two weeks have passed since my last update, work has been quite hectic and I’ve not been sleeping great, so not much mental capacity for blogging by the end of the day. But I finished all my challenges, and the new Popsugar Reading Challenge list…
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…