I know you’re expecting Mondayitis but things are rather busy and I find it’s easier to write a book review than to find someone to answer Mondayitis, therefore you’re going to get book reviews until either I run out of books or things become less hectic. Richard Hammond is that ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
Besides shortening the title I’m going to find it interesting writing about this book with my G Rating. Here is some of the description from the back of the book. Paul Carter has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage. He’s almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in ...
This Boy’s Life is a memoir of a few years in the life of Tobias Wolff. It is a well constructed story with no wasted words and details how hard it must have been for him growing up. His parents divorced relatively early on and his mother (Rosemary) wandered looking ...
The Olive Harvest is the sequel to The Olive Farm and The Olive Season, it’s a year in Drinkwater’s life, a very hard year during which she and her husband have a car accident and the olives don’t grow well. Drinkwater is probably best known in this region for being ...
Some of you will know Bill Oddie from The Goodies, others will know him from I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again and you might even know of Oddie from his nature series or bird books. He’s done quite a lot of things over the years and is a very big ...
Sunday afternoon we journeyed to the past. They say the past is another country and I keep being reminded of it. This was no exception. We went to Makor Library to a book launch, they have enough of them as they sponsor a writing programme called Write Your Own Story. ...
Growing up without computers and with a black and white television our lives were rather different to today. We spent a lot of time watching television together or playing board/card games (I learnt how to gamble playing solitaire), going out with friends and reading books. Some of our favourite people ...
I read biographies and autobiographies to find out about other people’s lives, to find out how other people do things and to get a different point of view. In one respect this book was good as it showed me all those things, but on the other hand it was too ...
This is one of the magical autobiographical books by Gerald Durrell. He was a multi-talented whirlwind who changed the face of zoos and helped to educate people and also to help save some endangered species. I have written about him before so I won’t write much now. This book is ...
This is disclosure time. I’ve been friends with Amanda Cox for a couple of years. I couldn’t get to her book launch so a mutual friend got a copy for me and she very kindly made certain to pass on my request to have it signed upside down, so my ...
Teaser Tuesday: Diary of a Mad Cow – Amanda Cox Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: * Grab your current read * Open to a random page * Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from ...
Just because I really can’t be bothered writing anything of substance today and because I have this book awaiting a review and because I’ve mentioned a rant coming on about this book and also because I had to have a break from Australis Imaginarium (a fantastic book but I want ...
Teaser Tuesday: Two in the Bush – Gerald Durrell Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: * Grab your current read * Open to a random page * Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere ...
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: * Grab your current read * Open to a random page * Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page * BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE ...
Well, things are certainly a lot better now. The website problems seem to have resolved themselves very nicely and I’m able to upload books. I’ve managed to solve the problem of the banner and it is now clickable so it takes you back to the home page and I’ve also ...