This weekly challenge is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. All you need to do to participate is to answer these three questions: What are you currently reading?What have you recently finished reading?What will you be reading next? What I’m currently reading So many books, so little time! I've been reading … Continue reading WWW Wednesday – Wednesday, 12th May 2021
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme that was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It’s a lovely challenge this week: Books with Nature on the Cover. I’ve tried to find a range of natural images - it was a great excuse to troll through … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Nature on the Cover
Thora and Santi have met before… Under the clocktower in central Cologne, with nothing but the stars above and their futures ahead. They will meet again… They don’t know it yet, but they’ll meet again: in numerous lives they will become friends, colleagues, lovers, enemies – meeting over and over for the first time, every … Continue reading Audiobook Review of ‘Meet Me in Another Life’ by Catriona Silvey
Book beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and it is a chance to share the first sentence or so of a book you’ve reading, about to read or recently read. I’m reading a couple of ARCs at the moment, so I’d potentially get into trouble if I shared those, so today I’m … Continue reading Book Beginnings… ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’
I enjoyed this YA novel which has a doomsday scenario as it’s backdrop. It’s a long time since I’ve read a book by this author (I think that I was almost in the target audience last time, about 20 years ago!) but I’m pleased to see that she’s still producing great reads. The novel’s protagonist, … Continue reading Book review of ‘Things to do Before the End of the World’ by Emily Barr
This weekly challenge is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. All you need to do to participate is to answer these three questions: What are you currently reading?What have you recently finished reading?What will you be reading next? What I’m currently reading I'm indulging in three ARCs this week: I started … Continue reading WWW Wednesday – Wednesday, 5th May 2021
I've spent a lovely couple of hours this morning researching how one may have killed someone with poison in 1921. I now know far more about arsenic than is reasonably healthy. At some point, with all this procrastination, someone may actually get murdered in this draft! I'm also struggling to get my head around how … Continue reading Researching the modus operandi
I’m attempting to write my first novel. It’s a murder mystery, for nine to eleven year olds, which is set in 1921. Before I started, I didn’t realise how much extra work I may have created for myself. I can’t really remember why I decided on 1921, but as the story has started to evolve, … Continue reading 1921 and all that
