One of our Superstar Guest Stars has agreed to a new challenge based on our chats relating to #LBCPuffins. Can't wait to read each review as they come! Huge thanks - as always - to Helen...though now I think on it...missing out on all these wonderful stories... Clearly we need each other! Helen's Enid Blyton … Continue reading Enid Blyton Challenge Book 07 – The Adventures of the Wishing Chair
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Enid Blyton Challenge Book 05 – The Enchanted Wood
One of our Superstar Guest Stars has agreed to a new challenge based on our chats relating to #LBCPuffins. Can't wait to read each review as they come! Huge thanks - as always - to Helen...though now I think on it...missing out on all these wonderful stories... Clearly we need each other! Helen's Enid Blyton … Continue reading Enid Blyton Challenge Book 05 – The Enchanted Wood
Podcast – Interview with Ross Young
LeedsBookClub is delighted to welcome Ross Young to the LBC Podcast. Ross is an English author based in Egypt, currently spending most of his time in the fictional afterlife world of Gloomwood. We discuss Dead Heads, Ross writing techniques and the slippery slidey world of self publication. LANGUAGE - well...I'm hosting so usual warnings apply! … Continue reading Podcast – Interview with Ross Young
September 2013 – W.B. Yeats
September 1913 W.B. Yates What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save; Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary … Continue reading September 2013 – W.B. Yeats
Interview with Claudia Christian!
There just isn't enough SQUEE in the world really. LeedsBookClub is delighted to welcome the sublime Claudia Christian who joined us this week. To hoards of SF fans, Claudia will always be General Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5 - one of the greatest SF characters in one of the greatest SF TV series EVER. However … Continue reading Interview with Claudia Christian!
Lainibop Challenge – Book 28 – Sexing the Cherries
READ! TO GO! 28 102 The LainiBop Challenge SEXING THE CHERRIES JEANETTE WINTERSON * * * * * * * * * * SPOILERS * * * * * * * * * * BLURB In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The … Continue reading Lainibop Challenge – Book 28 – Sexing the Cherries
Dead Heads (Gloomwood)by Ross Young – Review
FULL DISCLOSURE - Ross Young is a friend of a friend, who happens to be a writer. Actually, it’s a neighbour and friend - if we’re going to get nit-picky about it - who asked if I'd be interested in checking out this new novel. As he is a chap with impeccable taste, I enthusiastically agreed … Continue reading Dead Heads (Gloomwood)by Ross Young – Review
Breaking Bad – Ozymandias – Percy B Shelley
OZYMANDIAS PERCY B SHELLEY I MET a Traveler from an antique land, Who said, "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, Which … Continue reading Breaking Bad – Ozymandias – Percy B Shelley
Things I like – Colette Nic Aodha
The following poem appeared in the 2013 Art Craftwork Higher Level and I thought it was too gorgeous to keep to myself!! It's the first time that I've read anything by this homegrown (mine - so Irish, before you all get all excited) poet, but I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for more from now on! … Continue reading Things I like – Colette Nic Aodha
Lainibop Challenge – Book 27 – Pride and Prejudice
READ! TO GO! 27 103 The LainiBop Challenge PRIDE AND PREJUDICE JANE AUSTEN * * * * * * * * * * SPOILERS * * * * * * * * * * BLURB This much-loved novel by Jane Austen was first published in 1813 and Solis Press is proud to produce this 200th … Continue reading Lainibop Challenge – Book 27 – Pride and Prejudice
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