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A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s difficult to write any review of this gentle and elegant classic without simply repeating the word “perfect” for quite some time. Nevertheless, I shall persist and try to give something of a review that does not mention how perfect it isContinue reading "A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond"

The answers to the Third Ever Quite Niche Children’s Literature Quiz

How did you do? Lions, tigers and bears, oh my! People Doing Things A little bit of everything

The Lost City of Z by David Grann

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann My rating: 4 of 5 stars I first came to this story through the film of the same name which was something I watched almost by mistake and then enjoyed intensely. I spend a lot of time in theContinue reading "The Lost City of Z by David Grann"

2022 : a year in books

One of the things I like about Goodreads is that, at the end of the year, you get a fairly nifty round up of your reading. Admittedly you do have to remember to put the ‘read date’ in and admittedly that took me quite some time to remember to do (!), but it does allContinue reading "2022 : a year in books"

The Third Ever Quite Niche Children’s Literature Quiz

Hello! It’s that time of year again where I get to enter my final form as a bookish Pokemon and set you all a Quite Niche Christmas Quiz. If you are going “wait, what?” then you can catch up on the previous quizzes here: the first and the second. The answers will be linked fromContinue reading "The Third Ever Quite Niche Children’s Literature Quiz"

Eventing Trilogy by Caroline Akrill

Eventing Trilogy by Caroline Akrill My rating: 5 of 5 stars I think that when you were a pony girl, there will always be a little part of you that will remain a pony girl. She’ll make herself known in strange, subtle ways throughout the rest of your life. Like when you see a pictureContinue reading "Eventing Trilogy by Caroline Akrill"

Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans

Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans My rating: 4 of 5 stars Perhaps best known for the eternally joyful Madeline, Hotel Splendide allows Ludwig Bemelmans to showcase another side of his personality. This strange, slender and occasionally deeply melancholic book is the story of his time at the Hotel Splendide in the 1920s. Bemelmans moves upContinue reading "Hotel Splendide by Ludwig Bemelmans"

Putin’s Russia, the rise of a dictator by Darryl Cunningham

Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator by Darryl Cunningham My rating: 4 of 5 stars My goodness, this is a heck of a book. I finished it and had to make a mixture of ‘wait, what’ faces at the wall to calm down. Putin’s Russia has been on my wavelength for a while (IContinue reading "Putin’s Russia, the rise of a dictator by Darryl Cunningham"

Rereading the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

I have a list of the books I want to reread and one of the constants on it for the last few months has been a reread of the Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins. If you don’t know of these books, then they kind of marked a point where young adult literature spilt veryContinue reading "Rereading the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins"

The gang’s all here

I got some very special post this week, namely my author copies of the US edition of How To Be True. I wanted to share it with you because pretty books are always a good thing to share, right? (lol, we all know that’s not a question!). If you’re not sure what an author copyContinue reading "The gang’s all here"