Does Amazon send you countless emails with offers on books? Do you look, just in case there’s something you actually want to read? Do you end up buying virtual stacks of them at £0.99 and £1.49 just because you can’t not own this text if that’s the price? I’m sure this is why half the… Continue reading Book review: Wolf Hall
This beautiful Folio Society Edition of P.G. Wodehouse’s Leave it to Psmith was a Christmas gift from P a few years back (he also got me a gorgeous old edition of Wordsworth poetry because he’s just that wonderful). I’ve never really read any Wodehouse before, although I’ve seen a few of the old Fry and Laurie… Continue reading Book review: Leave it to Psmith
My sister likes books but she doesn’t find as much time to read as I do, so I was surprised years ago when she picked up a copy of Cloud Atlas, apparently on a whim. I was less surprised when she brought it to me asking if I wanted it because she was never going… Continue reading Book review: Cloud Atlas
When I was a teenager, specifically, when I was 13 back in 2002 I had a tendency to fall through books. They became an obvious Christmas or birthday gift and that year my grandmother gave me Decipher by Stel Pavlou, reasoning that, given its length, it should keep me busy for a while. Somehow, in… Continue reading Book review: Decipher
The Immortals is yet another example of Amazon tempting me with their Kindle offers. Last year in November they made it available for £1.49 and I snapped it up and then forgot about it until I finished reading Eleanor & Park for my book club and was casting about for something new to read. In… Continue reading Book review: The Immortals
I’ve been finding these short to-read lists helpful. My to-read list had become unmanageable, with over 100 books sitting ignored on my shelf I was developing a habit of constantly acquiring new books and never getting around to the books I already owned. Then, when the time came to choose something new to read, it… Continue reading The next short to-read list
I posted about the book launch for The Wages of Sin back in June. Despite devouring the text in under a week, I’m only just reviewing it now. Why? Because my backlog of reviews is ridiculous. Sorry. First of all, how gorgeous is that book cover? I know, I know, you should never judge… Continue reading Book review: The Wages of Sin
It was way back in February that I won a bundle of books from SciFiNow through a Twitter competition that they were running. What with Christmas in December and my birthday in January, it meant that it took me a while to get around to opening any of them, especially since I was feeling that… Continue reading Book review: Star of the Sea
Who has seen Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang? Probably, for my money within the top 5 movies released in 2005. In the movie, two characters are fans of a pulp fiction novelist and the detective who features in the novels. These novels, and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang itself, are loosely based on Bodies Are Where You Find… Continue reading Book review: Bodies Are Where You Find Them
I admit The Devil Wears Prada is not a book that I expected to read quite so soon. Sure, it was on my Kindle, so obviously I expected to read it eventually, and I enjoyed the movie, so I even expected to enjoy it, but it wasn’t at the top of my to read list. I… Continue reading Book review: The Devil Wears Prada
In Becky's Head 