Category: Book blurbs

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Fiction is just another way of telling the truth. If you’re reading this blog, you’ll probably agree with that statement. Continue reading →

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Bad news, guys. Random House is not offering up Reading Bingo this year. The good news is, there are plenty of other sites and blogs that have come up with reading challenges for 2015, ranging from a few tasks to well over a hundred. (Reading challenges seem to be quite popular these days!) But the bad news is, I didn’t really like any of those. So the best news of all is, I made one just for us! Continue reading →

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Signed title page of "The Bone Clocks"
One of my favourite inscriptions from this year. Thanks for taking the time for us punters, David Mitchell.

Happy New Year gang! With not much time left in 2014, we’ve come full circle – back to where we started, with a roundup of my favourite books I read throughout the year. It was another mixed bag of reading – genres and topics and locales and time periods galore. I guess if there’s a recurring theme to be spotted in my book choices, it’s war, or the aftermath of war.  Continue reading →

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You may not have been keeping track, but I bet, loyal readers, that if you look back on what you’ve read this year you’ll be able to cover a bunch of squares for Reading Bingo. Maybe you’ll get a line, or two, or the corners, or some other funky pattern. Or maybe you’ll cover the whole card!

So how about this… Use this handy form to tell me what books you read this year that qualify for Reading Bingo. I’ll collect all your submissions, and before the end of the year, I’ll put together a post showing YOUR Reading Bingo cards.

Then we can all add even more books to our wish lists!

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I think I’m reading too many books these days. Really! It’s possible! So I a) have no life and b) seem to be getting harsher in my judgment of books. If a book doesn’t blow me away from the start, I feel disappointed and just want to get through it. Which isn’t really fair to all those very good books out there. So maybe I should take a break or slow down?! (Likelihood of me taking a break or slowing down: zero per cent.)  Continue reading →