April has been my quietest reading month yet, but it has held some fantastic reading, so I'm not complaining. And I was able to join in Dewey's Read-a-Thon at the last minute too. Challenge Reading/Reading Projects: Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child (2012) Manda Scott's Hen's Teeth (1997) Elizabeth Jolley's Miss Peabody's Inheritance (1983) Classic Reading: Homer's The Odyssey and
Final Update for the Spring Readathon: Which hour was most daunting for you? Usually the later hours, but I had so many pauses in this read-a-thon that I didn't have any rough patches. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next
In my early twenties, I bought Cosmopolitan religiously. But I'm not sure that I've ever read a book that was blurbed by Cosmo. Or, if I have, it wasn't also blurbed by Hilary Mantel. But that's the case with Katie Ward's Girl Reading. (Cosmopolitan + Hilary Mantel =
Well, then, I'd be lying. Because nothing is like Anne of Green Gables, right? But I'll Be Watching gave me a lot of the same feelings that reading my battered copy of Montgomery's story gives me. That's bound to sound hyperbolic, so let me explain. Pamela Porter's novel opens
"Crackling with energy, assured and authoritative." So says Val McDermid about Manda Scott's debut suspense novel, Hen's Teeth, the first novel to feature Dr Kellen Stewart. But she might well have been discussing Kellen herself. Indeed, she is the draw to the series, in this reader's opinion; it's Kellen's sharp
