This month I participated in a reading challenge over on The Storygraph, titled Fantasy February. It will, therefore, not surprise you that the majority of the books below are fantasy. I have really enjoyed the reading challenge, the ten different categories getting me to rifle through my tbr pile and dust of some older purchases … More February Reads
This year I have decided to split my book reviews out of the quarterly This Sparks Joy! posts and do a monthly review post containing everything which I’ve rated 3 stars or over. All these reviews have already been posted to Amazon UK, Goodreads and The Storygraph but having them here as well allows me … More January Reads
My rating: 5 stars Synopsis from Amazon: “At once the easiest truth to know, and the hardest to realise” Thea Morell, Georgian heiress and eligible lady, is not normal. At least, that’s what she has come to believe. She loves nothing more than spending hours at the study of natural history, collecting fossils, insects, dead … More Book Review: Observations on the Danger of Female Curiosity by Suzanne Moss
… reasonably priced love, and a hard boiled egg; those were the stated aims of The People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road on May 25th when the Glorious Revolution was at hand. Given the nature of revolutions they didn’t actually get any of them. Not even the egg. If you understood those sentences then you’ve … More Truth, Justice, Freedom …
When I decided to start this challenge, six months ago, one of the things that seemed obvious to me (and one of the main reasons I created it in the first place) was that my TBR pile would be smaller at the end of it than it was at the beginning. The logic was sound … More A Year of Reading Frugally: Months Five and Six
I have, and yet have not, struggled with the challenge over the past two months. The easy part has been not buying new books since I discovered that book buying was more of an anxiety response than I had originally understood. Instead of being tied to a fear of missing out if I didn’t purchase … More A Year of Reading Frugally: Months Three and Four
My rating: 4 stars Book Blurb(from Pen & Sword): The Magic Of Terry Pratchett is the first full biography of Sir Terry Pratchett ever written. Sir Terry was Britain’s best-selling living author*, and before his death in 2015 had sold more than 85 million copies of his books worldwide. Best known for the Discworld series, … More Book Review: The Magic of Terry Pratchett by Marc Burrows
My rating: 5 stars Book blurb from Goodreads: A book of hope for uncertain times. Enter the world of Charlie’s four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The conversations of the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art … More Book Review: The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by Charlie Mackesy
My Rating: 5 stars Book Blurb from Goodreads: Winding its way from the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of Anglesey, the ancient road of Watling Street has gone by many different names. It is a road of witches and ghosts, of queens and highwaymen, of history and myth, of Bletchley Park codebreakers, … More Book Review: Watling Street by John Higgs
Rated: 5 stars This brilliantly crafted non-fiction look at the British obsession with murder is not only fascinating in its own right but also perfect if you’re a crime writer who fancies learning some of the history of your genre, providing as it does an excellent feel for the public perception of crime and crime … More Book Review: A Very British Murder by Dr Lucy Worsley
Kizzia Mildmay 