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The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey – Book Review

March 19, 2024yggdrasille

Few books grabbed me as instantly as this post-apocalyptic thriller. It doesn’t quite live up to the promise of its striking opening and strays into over-familiar genre territory, but it remains a riveting read and, like all good science fiction, raises some intriguing moral conundrums.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie – Book Review

March 5, 2024June 7, 2024yggdrasille

I did it: after five and a half years, and eighty novels and short story collections, I’ve finished my Agatha Christie re-readathon with the Poirot mystery that started it all.

Top Ten Tuesday – Book Covers with Apples

February 27, 2024June 7, 2024yggdrasille

I happened to be eating an apple (a nice and juicy Jazz apple to be exact) while thinking about this week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl, Covers/Titles with Things Found in Nature. A supermarket apple is hardly a product of nature, but hey there are wild apple trees as well!

Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie – Book Review

February 8, 2024yggdrasille

The Queen of Crime brings down the curtain on life and work of Hercule Poirot in this melancholy finale that does give her most famous creation a dramatic and memorable send-off.

Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King – Book Review

January 23, 2024yggdrasille

I felt like re-visiting this collection of four dark and disturbing novellas of varying quality, all centred around the themes of justice, complicity and retribution.

Top Ten Tuesday – Bookish Goals for 2024

January 16, 2024June 7, 2024yggdrasille

It’s the beginning of a new year, and Bookish Goals for 2024 is this week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl. Generally speaking I’m no longer into the New Year’s resolutions, but it was fun to pause and really think about my book-related resolutions for the year.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes – Book Review

December 19, 2023June 7, 2024yggdrasille

I almost never cry over books these days, but I can admit that Daniel Keyes’ thought-provoking, heart-wrenching novel is one of the few recent reads that made me tear up.

The Listerdale Mystery by Agatha Christie – Book Review

December 14, 2023yggdrasille

I assumed I was done with Christie’s short stories, but I was wrong: there remained twelve more tales of intrigue to finish, which mostly land on the fun and frothy end.

Top Ten Tuesday – Books Set on Mars

November 28, 2023June 7, 2024yggdrasille

The Red Planet was one of the first things that popped into my head in response to this week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl, Books Set In X. It surely must be the most-visited planet in the Solar System in fiction.