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  • 4 stars,  graphic novel

    Graphic Novel Review: ‘Nimona’ by Noelle Stevenson

    Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious…

    January 26, 2016
  • 4 stars,  crime,  mystery

    Review: ‘Mystery in White’ by Jefferson J. Farjeon

    Rating: 4 out of 5 stars   On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the…

    December 10, 2015
  • 4 stars,  fantasy,  humour

    Review-Ramble Hybrid: ‘The Colour of Magic’ by Terry Pratchett

    Bex over at An Armchair by the Sea ran a lovely series of posts in memory of Terry Pratchett (starting HERE) and roused lots of readers to read anything written by the prolific author in the sad week after his…

    March 21, 2015
  • 4 stars,  audio book,  fantasy,  horror

    Review: ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ by Ray Bradbury

    Rating:  4 out of 5 stars It’s the week before Hallowe’en, and Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams fulfilled……

    October 31, 2014
  • 4 stars,  adventure,  classic

    Review: ‘The Lost World’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Yet another Penguin editionfor me to covet Rating:  4 out of 5 stars  On a zoology expedition up the Amazon River, Professor Challenger makes an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he…

    September 20, 2014
  • 4 stars,  classic,  Classics Club

    Thoughts on ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ by Jules Verne

    The Penguin edition I’mpining for Rating:  4 out of 5 stars Classics Confession:  Before reading this, my entire knowledge of the story of Around the World in 80 Days was based upon the Around the World with Willy Fog cartoon…

    August 26, 2014
  • 4 stars,  detective,  mystery

    Review: ‘The Mangle Street Murders’ by M.R.C. Kasasian

    Rating:  4 out of 5 stars Gower Street, London, 1882:  Sidney Grice, London’s most famous personal detective, is expecting a visitor. He drains his fifth pot of morning tea, and glances outside, where a young, plain woman picks her way…

    June 11, 2014
  • 4 stars,  literary fiction

    Review: ‘The Night Rainbow’ by Claire King

    Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Under the sweltering heat of the summer sun, five-year-old Pea – and her vivid imagination – run wild in the meadows behind her home on the edge of a small village in Southern France.Pea’s…

    March 14, 2014
  • 4 stars,  classic,  Classics Club

    Thoughts on ‘Villette’ by Charlotte Bronte

    “Villette!  Villette!  It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power”  George Eliot It’s been years since I read and cried over Jane Eyre so, when I signed up for The Classics…

    March 9, 2014
  • 4 stars,  audio book,  autobiography,  comedy,  humour

    Audio Book Review: ‘Bossypants’ by Tina Fey

    Rating:  4 out of 5 stars Tina Fey, one of the most powerful and beloved women in entertainment, brings sharp wit and uncanny observational skill to everything she does, from television to major motion pictures. She’s managed to be known…

    February 22, 2014
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