Medium – Book About this Book – Marinka dreams of living an ordinary life, where she can make friends and her house stays in one place. However, she lives in a house with chicken legs, and the job of this house is to guide the dead. Marinka’s grandmother is Baba Yaga. She helps dead soulsContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #7 – The House with Chicken Legs”
Monthly Archives: September 2020
TBR Pile Book #6 – The Pure Heart
Medium – Book About the Book – Iseabail is a young woman living on a Scottish island, on the edge of the Outer Hebrides. She is the only person on the island who can read and write and is engaged to be married to the son of the chieftain. One day, a letter and aContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #6 – The Pure Heart”
TBR Pile Book #5 – Circe
Medium – Book About the Book – Circe, the immortal daughter of Helios (the Greek God of the Sun), is a strange child, unloved by her parents and the rest of her family. Residing in her father’s halls, she sees many things that she dislikes and is teased, taunted and generally mistreated. She thinks ofContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #5 – Circe”
TBR Pile Book #4 – Parsnips, Buttered
Medium – Book About the Book – The comedian Joe Lycett highlights his tips, tricks and hacks for surviving in modern Britain. Whether describing how to get out of a parking ticket fine, dupe scammers, beat ISIS or just really wind people up, Lycett demonstrates letters, emails and messages that he has sent to aContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #4 – Parsnips, Buttered”
TBR Pile Book #3 – Innocence of Father Brown
Medium – Book About the Book – The first in the series of Father Brown short stories, written by G.K. Chesterton. The book introduces the character of Father Brown, the catholic priest with the propensity for solving crimes, alongside his enemy-but-then-friend, the criminal Hercule Flambeau. The book gives 12 short stories, all showing off FatherContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #3 – Innocence of Father Brown”
TBR Pile Book #2 – Rebel Women
Medium – Book About the Book – Rosalind Miles traces the history of female rebellion from the days of the French Revolution to the modern day. She uses case studies of female rebellions in dress, science, education, health and wellbeing, and sets a (wo)manifesto of what women need to be truly equal in today’s society,Continue reading “TBR Pile Book #2 – Rebel Women”
TBR (To be Read) Pile Book #1 – Love in a Cold Climate
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Fanny Logan, a 19-year-old at the beginning of the book, is the narrator of Nancy Mitford’s sequel to ‘The Pursuit of Love’. Fanny is cousin to ‘The Radletts’ – the semi-autobiographical reimagining of Mitford’s own slightly eccentric family. In this book, we encounter Polly Hampton, the only daughterContinue reading “TBR (To be Read) Pile Book #1 – Love in a Cold Climate”
End of the Reading Challenge!
So – today I read the last of my 50 books for the year. I have really enjoyed the challenge and it has definitely got me into the reading mood! The surprise of having a prompt to read to, and having my husband pick out the next books I will read has really helped toContinue reading “End of the Reading Challenge!”
Book #50 – Neverwhere
Prompt – A banned book (meant to be read in banned books week, but I was early – this book was banned in parts of the American South). Medium – Book About the Book – Set in London, this book tells the story of Richard Mayhew, a normal young businessman, with a fiancee, a flatContinue reading “Book #50 – Neverwhere”
Book #49 – Target Alex Cross
Prompt – A book with a three word title. Medium – Book About the Book – The book begins with Alex Cross, a psychologist and former FBI agent (now FBI contractor), and his family at the funeral of the President of the USA. Soon after the funeral, a senator is killed on her way toContinue reading “Book #49 – Target Alex Cross”
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