You know those days when you open your mouth (or put fingers to keyboard) and step right into it getting yourself thoroughly embedded? I had one of those days last week with Dexter. You can read what I wrote and then if you still choose can come back for a ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
I picked this omnibus up from an op shop a while ago and as it creates a nice hole in my To Be Read Pile I thought I’d give it a go, having read two of the three books without a break I’m now asking myself why. Dexter is not ...
I have mixed feelings about this book, it started off rather slow and boring as if your old, jaded uncle was telling you a story and didn’t really know how to begin but I persevered and finally when I got to page 100 it started to improve. The premise goes like this: ...
From the back of the book: Until the phone calls came at three o’clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond ...
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie Yes, that’s right, Hugh Laurie the brilliant man who played the totally flawed man Doctor House. Reasonably well written but I’m struggling to remember anything special about it. It’s about a man who’s hired to kill someone but renegs on the deal, naturally this ...
One of my favourite authors is Sir Compton Mackenzie and today is his birthday – Happy Birthday! Ignore the fact that he died in 1972, today in 1883 is the day he was born and I’m so glad he was. He is the author of that fabulous book Whiskey Galore! ...
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff’s, ...
Squid Ink is rather busy at present so is taking a bit of a break, hopefully he’ll be back here with some more bookish type insights from his many tentacled point of view. So today I have my own dilemma, how to review a book that is very far from ...
Vladimir is an ordinary teenager and engages in ordinary activities such as; going to school, having crushes on girls, enjoying time with his best friend, Henry…the one problem Vlad has is he’s a vampire and he thinks he’s about to be outed. This is a cross between comedy, horror and ...
Just for a bit of a change of pace I thought I’d review a book I picked up this afternoon. It’s a children’s book so didn’t take too long to read. It was Lucy Sussex’s first fiction novel. I first heard of Sussex last year when I attended AussieCon 4, fourth ...
Squid Ink Reads! Poor Squid Ink, he gets into such trouble at times. He really shouldn’t have read the Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. ...
A story about a man, his daughter and the community they live in. Miles Roby is a man with a sense of humour and a penchant for spotting signs that don’t quite make sense or have typos, a trait he shares with his teenage daughter. It’s not gentle, but it ...
First came the Tomorrow series, followed by The Ellie Chronicles. This book is the third volume in The Ellie Chronicles. I managed to pick up Incurable and Circle of Flight at the same time and thought I’d picked up the earlier book of the two, unfortunately I managed to get ...
Squid Ink’s gone walkabout again, I’ll have to send out a search party. I’m sure he’ll come back when he’s finished his perambulations. In the meantime I took some time out from Bleak House and read a different book. I didn’t mean to read the whole thing but I was ...
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 ...