Tag: reading
Top Ten Tuesday – Book Titles That Include the Sun
This week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl is to pick a word and list book titles with it. My choice is the flaming ball of hydrogen and helium at the centre of our solar system, keeping us all warm and at times uncomfortably hot.
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo – Book Review
Another gritty, twisty and nasty entry in the Harry Hole series. It could be pure recency bias, but I thought it was one of Nesbo’s best.
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck – Book Review
This flimsy but intriguing novella mixes horror and philosophy for a mind-bending take on the afterlife. I enjoyed its ideas if maybe not the execution.
Top Ten Tuesday – My Favorite Books by My Favorite Authors
This week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl was a fun challenge. Not only do you have to pick your favourite books by your favourite authors, you also have to decide who your favourite authors actually are.
Top Ten Tuesday – Book Titles with Flower Names
May Flowers is this week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl, so here are some books that have a flower name in the title.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky – Book Review
A sci-fi novel of staggering ambition and scope, Children of Time captivates with its incredible world-building and epic grandeur, if not with prose and characters.
Top Ten Tuesday – Green Book Covers
In honour of St Patrick’s Day, this week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl is all about green book covers. I don’t usually limit myself to the books in my home collection, but this time I thought I’d try and find ten green books from my shelves.
Top Ten Tuesday – Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers
This week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl is dedicated to the numbers that define an item’s place in the series. I thought I’d also do a neat and orderly list from first to tenth.
Quote of the Day – Getting Old
“As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.“
— Doris Lessing
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