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  • N is for … New Kid, new release

    Well, if you read my blog last week you’ll know I was scrambling, having managed to disorder my alphabet in a rather rookie error and forgotten to line up an “N” book. However, a dear and lovely writer I know then released New Kid in Town and I was sorted. I don’t read many contemporaries,…

  • M is for … Mostly overlooked.

    My “M” book is The Midnight Society by Rhonda Sermon. Now, this book has been wandering around at the edges of my awareness for yonks. At least a year, I swear. I remember it with another cover – it’s been that long. So in all that time, why on earth did no one take me…

  • L is for … Longbourn’s the place to hang out – apparently

    I will set my cards on the table. I am a HUGE fan of Pride & Prejudice. Persuasion is my absolute favourite Jane Austen novel, but P&P comes in a close second. I’ve read it numerous times and can quote the famous lines if you give me half an excuse. So, for fans like me,…

  • K is for … Katherines are the best!

    A friend recommended I try Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Mysteries for my “K” book. And now I’m going to recommend you try them, too, because they are excellent. YA, crime and history all rolled into one. Kitty made for an excellent protagonist, resourceful, smart and loyal. There were lots of twists and I…

  • J is for … Just call me a quitter

    I tried, I swear I did. J looked like it was going to become another H for me. I started a couple of books but they really weren’t to my taste. So I then cast about for recoemmendations. My excellent mother made the excellent suggestion that I read Jane Eyre. Now, for some background on…

  • I is for … Indulgent re-reading

    After the drama of last week’s H read, I decided to relax this week and allowed myself to indulge in a re-read. Steven Gould’s Jumper series is one of my absolute favourite books. Jumper would certainly go with me to a desert island, and the follow-up, Impulse, is equally delightful, telling the story of original…

  • H is for … Hard to Find

    I’ll confess, I was starting to panic, dear reader. I finished my G book, the fabulous Goldfish Boy, and I had no H book lined up. Searching Amazon got me nowhere. Then, in the space of two days, newsletters I’m subscribed to recommended TWO books that started with a H. Brilliant, I thought. Yeah…not so…

  • G is for … Gorgeous Goldfish

    This was recommended to me the significant 12-year-old in my life, and I – a YA-loving adult – utterly fell in love with it. Diverse writing and writing about mental illness is “on trend” right now (a good thing, imo), and The Goldfish Boy deserves all the success it gets. It’s a very convincing account of a…

  • F is for … Fabulous Fantasy

    Last week I read an entire series. This week I finished another. Now, that’s making me sound like some kind of a superwoman who can read four or five books a week. I so wish that was true, but unfortunately I can’t read quite that fast (damn you, real life!). In actual fact, I’ve been…

  • E is for … Elementary, my dears!

    My “E” pick was the Elementals series by Michelle Madow. I was really pleased that I’d got a bit ahead of myself where my schedule’s concerned, so I had chance to read this series in one, glorious gulp (I got through them in a week; not that I’m boasting or anything. Ahem). It’s a cracking…