****SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS***** Dhampire Thief of Lives Sister of the Dead Traitor to the Blood Rebel Fay Child of a Dead God ****SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS***** I am writing this in response to the incredible and outrageous adoration of the Twilight (Twishite) series - a set of books woefully written, with some … Continue reading The Saga of the Noble Dead – or what Twilight isn’t…
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Natalie Williams
I warn you now, I might gush... So, many many moons ago, when faces were fresh, and tummys always seemed to be growling - there was a girl a year or so older than me in school - Natalie - who had a knack with language. She was always scribbling stories, plays, poems and songs … Continue reading Natalie Williams
Tukking about doesn’t wash
I enter a fair few competitions, mostly because I like filling in forms, and recently won a book from Bah! To Cancer's excellent blog (thank you very much!). Because I tend to enter indiscriminately and win a fair bit, I do end up reading quite a wide selection of books. On this occasion I won … Continue reading Tukking about doesn’t wash
Shak-es-pear-e is immense
As part of the Once Upon a Time Book Challenge, this month I dug out my Complete Works (always a pleasure, one of those lucky sods who did the good plays at school and therefore has unending love for The Bard) and re-read A Midsummer Night's Dream. Love that play, and it was very revealing … Continue reading Shak-es-pear-e is immense
The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
This month I have become a little obsessed with The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, a series aimed at Young Adults (i.e. older children) but I, a woman in her twenties, enjoyed it immensely. This is a series of six, set in the Stone Ages- before farming, writing or the wheel. At first I was attracted … Continue reading The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
The Millennium Trilogy
Greer once said ‘women will never know how much men hate them’. The Millennium Trilogy seeks to correct this. The books are, in my opinion, an exposé of day-to-day misogyny, as well as violent hatred against women on a grand scale. The male characters who perpetrate the violence or general patriarchal attitudes are either weak … Continue reading The Millennium Trilogy
Book Club the Sixth – Amended Order
Book Club the Sixth - BOOKELF - 05-05-2010 Agreed on: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (BookElf) Discussed: - The Island by Victoria Hislop - The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland - Dracula by Bram Stoker - Millenium Trilogy by Steig Larsson Right, down to buzz-y-ness. As I only completed our first topic book after … Continue reading Book Club the Sixth – Amended Order
Oh dear…reading the greats
As part of the Once Upon A Time Reading Challenge I have spent my bank holiday reading Virgil. I know this makes me sound like a right clever swot-girl, but in my defence, it wasn't the original poem in Latin or anything like that, but the first four books of The Aeneid, translated for Penguin … Continue reading Oh dear…reading the greats
The Land of Fire, Ice, annoying volcanos…and a great literary tradition
Now I know that Iceland isn't massively popular at the moment. For one thing, they've just banned lapdancing clubs full stop, so that's another load of stag parties' plans scuppered, then they go an elect a woman as Prime Minister who is not only a massive environmentalist and feminist (you'd have never guessed by the … Continue reading The Land of Fire, Ice, annoying volcanos…and a great literary tradition
Book Club the Fifth
Book Club the Fifth - BOOKN00B - 18-04-2010 Agreed on: The Island by Victoria Hislop (BookN00b) Discussed: - Firman by Sam Savage SPECIAL GUEST STAR - Lela - who is now 100 pages into The Book Thief! BOOKN00B hated the first chapter, which enraged her, resulting in her casting aside the book for about a … Continue reading Book Club the Fifth
