I’m not sure where I bought this book. I suspect it might have been for a plane journey judging by the receipt I found inside. I also suspect I didn’t finish it at the time, reading it this time there were a couple of little things that seemed familiar. Did ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
I love these mini conventions. When I went to Bendicon last year I found the table for Screaming Banshee Press and there was A.J. McInally. Book shops are fantastic places to be, I’ve had some super recommendations from book shops over the last few years, but big publishers don’t go ...
Tracey, in the Aussie Book Bloggers group on Facebook, suggested we do a readalong in the Community Chat with The Secret Garden. Figuring it was a good chance to reread the book and always wanting a new book experience I indicated my interest. When I couldn’t find the book on ...
I have a lot of books in my house. Times like now illustrate this perfectly. I’ve had The Fifth Elephant on my shelves for some time. I can’t tell you how long it’s been here for but I suspect I probably bought it at a second hand bookshop at some ...
This series of three books proves why it’s good to attend things your friends are doing. My friend, Pete, mentioned on Facebook how he was going to be attending the latest ComixPo. I saw that and feeling it’d be a good time to catch up with him and some other ...
This is one of the books I bought at BendiCon this year. Keep an eye on their website for the next convention, they’re great fun…much better than the big ones. I like to find new authors with awesome writing and I think I’ve hit it this time. Walter has a ...
You know those times when you see an author post in a group looking for reviews of a book? And you put your name forward hoping it’ll be a good book? I did that. The topic matter sounded really good. I’d heard good things about Burrows from friends so I ...
This is one of those books I could read many times and still enjoy. I rambled about it recently using a paragraph in Paratalk or Torque? It whetted my appetite and instead of being put back on the shelf it found its way to my To Be Read Pile. On ...
I’m sure many of you can understand that. I’ve got a number of large, and long, projects on my To Do List. I think it’s probably too many, but I seem to actually have some kind of focus at the moment. This afternoon I managed to power my way through ...
I feel I must have bought this novel when I was at uni. Something I do at odd times is haunt bookshops and the university bookshop was no different. I don’t think it was on one of my reading lists, I suspect I saw it and thought it looked interesting. ...
Last year I received a lovely email asking me to try out a brand new book subscription service. I was intrigued. I enjoyed some of the selections of the book subscription service I paid for in 1980 and I wanted to see what these people did. Back in the late ...
That time of the week where I take a paragraph, mostly at random, and talk about it however I wish. I picked up the book I had on my desk, opened at random and found a passage about urinating. I changed pages for a different paragraph. If your elders don’t ...
I bought this book in 2009 about the time I started writing in this blog. I was aiming to make my business of selling pre-loved books online bigger and better. The thought in my mind was that reading this book would help me make my website better, or make me ...
This is one of those pulp magazines that I love so much. I pulled it off the shelf, looked at the table of contents and didn’t recognise a single name. I almost cheered out loud. It’s lovely to find a whole new swag of writers that I can stalk…sorry, search ...
I picked this up from my shelf as it’s in the Dymocks Top 101 Books for 2020. I have to read a book from this list for the Dymocks Reading Challenge 2020. It was an amazing read. If you only like light and fluffy then I suggest you take your ...