Tag: #amreading

  • Shattered Worlds Challenge: Curse Breaker

    My blog is late this week, because I only finished Curse Breaker last night (not a slow reader, I’ve been taken up with lots of non-fiction reading this week, all about marketing, social media and advertising, yawn). Curse Breaker is just as lovely as I hoped it might be: a beautifully-realised fantasy world with some fabulous…

  • Shattered Worlds Challenge – a surprising Scourge

    This week I read A G Henley’s The Scourge. This took me by surprise in a lot of very good ways. What seemed at first to be a pre-industrial fantasy world turned out to be set in a post-apocalyptic future. There were other twists like that, but I don’t want to give away any spoilers.…

  • Shattered Worlds reading challenge – a book about a boy???

    Well, this week’s story taught me not to be so prejudiced, frankly. There are 21 books in Shattered Worlds (minus my own) and my target is to read twelve in twelve weeks, so I need to cut them down a little. I only glanced at Richard’s Story, thinking I’d have a quick look and knock it right off…

  • My Reading Alphabet Challenge – sum up

    I had terrific fun with my alphabet challenge. It made me look beyond the books and authors I always choose, with the result that I’ve found some absolute treasures that I’ll be looking out for more from. Having to (mostly) stick to a particular letter of the alphabet provided some structure and there was a…

  • Z is for … Zoikes, fetch an editor!

    I have reached the end of my Alphabet Challenge! Whoop whoop, crack out the champagne! I’d love to be able to gush over my final, Z book, but that’s unfortunately not possible. There were very slim pickings for the final letter of the alphabet. It took about three searches to find something suitable on Amazon,…

  • Y is really for … young and flawed

    So, I knuckled down and read a Y book at last. I chose Marie Lu’s The Young Elites, and it should have been right down my street, but most of it was just … okay. I think a big part of it was because The Young Elites is written in present tense. I read the…

  • Y is for … why aren’t there more hours in the day?

    I’m sorry, I feel like I’m full of excuses lately. My alphabet challenge went so well for so long I think I thought I was home safe, but it seems to have derailed in the home straight. I should have been reading a book whose title started with Y, but I don’t even have a…

  • X is for … eXcessive fashion reports

    I always knew filling the X slot in my alphabet reading challenge might be difficult, so when I spotted a book titled Xoe early in the year I grabbed it. Due to my lack of choice I wasn’t especially hopeful. Fie on me for a cynical doubter! Actually, Xoe was mostly a fun read. The…

  • W is for … why is it “double” U?

    It’s always puzzled me why “w” doesn’t get its own name, but just gets called “two u’s”. I guess it didn’t need a name until it was written down, and then it does look a little bit like two “u’s” side by side. But in that case, why doesn’t “h” get called “long n” or…

  • W is for … well recommended!

    I joined Instagram recently, on a bit of a three-line whip from a group I’m working with. But I’m glad I got the push because Instagram (or, more accurately bookstagram, since I’m in it for the books) is fabulous. It reminds me of what twitter was like before everyone used it to promote and run:…