I've decided to start dedicated blogs for my travel and reading adventures. Click on the pictures below to go and check them out! I have quite a few followers who are here for the travel posts I sometimes do. I'm guessing you guys aren't super interested in sewing or all the other random stuff I bang on [...]
Tag: books
Reading Challenge 2013: The Result
You may remember that I decided to set myself the fairly ambitious target of reading 52 books in 2013. In an effort to finish the things I start, or at least report on them, I can tell you that I managed to read 36 books in the year. Considering the international move, and the fact that [...]
Through a Glass, Darkly by Donna Leon
This is, I think, the third Commissario Brunetti book I've read, and I think it's the worst of that trio. This doesn't mean it's bad, it's not bad. Venice remains as much at the forefront as ever, and the snippets of Brunetti's home life are as warming as I have come to expect. However, the [...]
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
At the end of this book, Martin added a page of acknowledgements, stating that "This one was a bitch". It was a bit of a bitch to read as well. Don't get me wrong; the story was as fascinating as ever, and the general feeling of Lord of the Rings meets The Tudors remains. [...]
Room by Emma Donoghue
Jack is five, and excited about his birthday. He lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures eleven feet by eleven feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friend, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only [...]
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