Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Orion Publication date: Oct 15th 2009 ISBN13: 9781409103233 First Line – “What would you do if you thought you were about to die?” ‘What would I do without you, Lucy Brown?’ he said, and kissed me softly. I held his face in my hands and kissed him back. I felt that…
Book Review – Don’t You Forget About Me by Alexandra Potter
Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: July 19th 2012 ISBN13: 9781444712117 First Line – “What’s on your mind?” After a bad break up, doesn’t every girl want the same things? * For her ex-boyfriend to stay single forever… * Or maybe emigrate, to a remote, uninhabited island? * Better still, that she’d…
Book Review – Undead by Kirsty McKay
Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Chicken House Publication date: Sept 1st 2011 ISBN13: 9781906427870 First Line – “I would rather die than face them all again.” It was just another school trip… When their ski-coach pulls up at a cafe, and everyone else gets off, new girl Bobby and rebel Smitty stay behind. They hardly know…
Book Review – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Paperback: 384 pagesPublisher: CenturyPublication date: August 18th 2011ISBN13: 9781846059377 First Line – “Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.” It’s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We’re out of oil. We’ve wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and…
Book Review – The Reapers are the angels by Alden Bell
Hardback: 302 pages Publisher: Tor Publication date: September 3rd 2010 ISBN13: 9780230748644 First Line – “God is a Slick God.” God is a slick god. Temple knows. She knows because of all the crackerjack miracles still to be seen on this ruined globe…Older than her years and completely alone, Temple is just trying to live…
Book Review – Hollowland by Amanda Hocking
Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Amanda Hocking Publication date: 6 Oct 2010 ISBN13: 9781453860953 First Line – “This is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and…
Book lending. To do or not to do, that is the question.
A post over at Book Chick City struck a chord with me earlier. The question is a simple one. “Do you lend books?” The answer dredges up an examination of my relationship with books (and my mother). Me? I don’t lend books. But, I do give books. I’ve got quirks when it comes to books…
Book Review – Edinburgh Dead by Brian Ruckley
Paperback: 369 pages Publisher: Orbit Publication date: 4 Aug 2011 ISBN13: 9781841498652 First Line – “The corpse sat in a simple, high-backed chair” The year is 1827. For Adam Quire, an officer of the recently formed City Police, Edinburgh is a terrifying place. It is a city populated by mad alchemists and a criminal underclass…
Book Review – Darkness Falling by Peter Crowther
Darkness Falling (Forever Twilight – #1) By Peter Crowther Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Angry Robot Publication date(first UK): 6 Oct 2011 ISBN: 978 0 85766 168 5 Synopsis taken from Angry Robot: It was a typical all-American backwater – until the night the monsters came. When four employees of KMRT Radio investigate an unearthly light…
2012 reading challenge’s
2011 isn’t even over yet but I already know how my 2011 reading challenges will end….MADE OF FAIL! I know I won’t complete any of them as I’m too far behind and it’s too late in the day to catch up but it doesn’t matter. Well, not to me anyway. It’s not the winning that’s…