Another week ends
I've been reading several books at once so this week's completion count looks pretty impressive. The first one I finished was this book of short stories, first published nearly 40 years ago. I gave...
View Articlean eclectic mix
This week's blog count looks even more impressive than last week's - I put four books into my "Read" shelf on Goodreads. However, when you look at the length of these books that first impression is...
View ArticleMaori Language Week 2013
There has been too much going on in my life recently for me to have planned properly for this Week in New Zealand - I was aware it was coming up, but then suddenly it was upon us and I wasn't prepared...
View ArticleTeenagers finding their Identities
It's many years since I was a teenager, and when I was one of them, nobody wrote books just for us. For example, I'd progressed from fairy stories to magic to ghost stories to horror and science...
View ArticleCover Reveal - Finding Sheba
I signed up to a Cover Reveal for this book, not knowing what I'm doing - so I sincerely hope that what I do now is a good thing. It's through this blog - Book Blasts & Blog Tours, but that's not...
View ArticleBooks I haven't Finished this Year
I used to feel so bad about not enjoying a book that I'd force myself to read it all the way through. At least, I think that was my reasoning.Perhaps, though, I was reverting to my teenage self at...
View ArticleThe Art and Craft of Beautiful Books
I haven't yet tried making pottery, though the idea of shaping a lump of clay into something useful (possibly) and beautiful (hopefully) has long appealed to me. However, like the other things I've...
View ArticlePeople in the Titles
It's not always easy to find an overlying theme to a group of books that you've read. Of course, if I had all the time in the world and could obtain a selection of all the books published in any week,...
View ArticleA Religious / Spiritual Theme - Why?, I Wonder . . . .
Some people don't believe in coincidences - when others of us widen our eyes at the coincidences that happen so often, the non-believers say, "it was obviously meant to be" or "there's a message...
View ArticleIn Times of War
I noticed that I've read 3 books in the last month that are set (or have part of their story set) in times of war, so I've made that my theme for this post. They're all historical novels (or partly...
View ArticleBig E, little e, What begins with E?
No, I'm not reviewing Dr Seuss's ABC - I just happened to notice that four of the books I've got waiting to collate in a blog post have titles beginning with the letter E.This first one was published...
View ArticleA Bevy of Brits
If you read enough books you can always find some way to link a number of them in a theme. This week I'm making a British collection.Ian McEwan is an author who I first read around 2006. When a...
View ArticleFinding Sheba, by H.B. Moore
I was sent this book as part of a blog tour hosted by I am a Reader, not a Writer, and I offered to read and review it. The blurb about this book had me most interested. I like thrillers, I like...
View ArticleBack Home
I thought I'd top-and-tail this post with children's books. The first one is a fairly recent purchase - another of the beautifully written and illustrated children's books that I simply can't resist...
View ArticleThis is Not a Blog about Parenting and its Problems
The books I've chose today all have being a parent as a focal point to the story, but they're certainly not self-help books about parenting. This first one has as its major plot-line the relationship...
View ArticleFrom Insects to the Great Apes
Bees are okay - they make a nice noise, they make honey, they're not vicious, they look nice. I'd never be a beekeeper, though. New Zealand has its own famous once-was-a-beekeeper in Sir Edmund...
View ArticleGoing Back in Time
I've just realised that my review on Goodreads for this book actually said nothing about the plot. Well, that's not very good! I think I shall probably have to go back there and correct that error....
View ArticleFruit and Veg
I'm being facetious with my heading as this first book is hardly about food, although one could make a case for it belonging because much of the story is driven by the poverty and the inability to have...
View ArticleJames' J A M E S Challenge
Earlier this year I had a lot more time to spend with the grandchildren - nearly every day I'd read them several books, and they'd have kept me reading for hours if I'd let them. However, it was...
View ArticleZenobia's Z E N O B I A Challenge
My last blog post detailed James' first book challenge, and here's Zenobia's.Posting these has made me very aware that I haven't worked on any challenges with the grandchildren for several months....
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