“There once was a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself – not just sometimes, but always.” Milo always longs to be somewhere else. He’s bored in school and longs to be home, but then when he gets home he wants to be somewhere else. Nothing is ever really interesting until one day he receives a mystery package containing one (1) phantom tollbooth. Milo sets up the tollbooth, gathers the change and then charges up his little electric car and drives […]
A Visit to My Childhood (BINGO!)
I couldn’t let September close without achieving my first bingo. It was bothering me that I was sitting with 14 squares done and no bingos, and that given my available library books it was two more squares at least until I accomplished this. And then I remembered that I had my Throwback Thursday choice sitting on my bookshelf and it was time to take a trip back to my childhood reading. I have no recollection of how All-of-a-Kind Family arrived on my shelves. There’s no […]
Throwback Thursday: My annual rereads of Agatha Christies
Every year, I read at least one Christie I haven’t read for a while. Sometimes I even forget the murderer (until about halfway through)! This post is therefore my annual round-up of the ones I’ve read. (Annual because it’s almost October but I’m pretty sure I’m burnt out on Christie for at least several months). I didn’t read anything really brilliant, to be honest, but it was solid comfort reading during a very tumultuous summer (in which I got married, moved to a different country, worked […]
I can’t be objective with this book – CBR10Bingo Throwback Thursday – Bingo!
In 2001 I was an administrative assistant for the managers that oversaw the book buyers at Borders Books (may it rest in peace). One of the buyers thought I would like Kushiel’s Dart and recommended it. Once in my hands I couldn’t put it down, reading so fast that on subsequent readings I discovered whole paragraphs that had previously been skipped. It was completely different from any fantasy I had read before and quickly became one of my most recommended books to anyone who I thought […]
#CBR10 Bingo: Throwback Thursday – the Kate Daniels series (minus book 10)
#CBR10Bingo: Throwback Thursday Spoiler warning! This is my re-read of the first nine books in the Kate Daniels series, in addition to the two books books set in the same universe, Gunmetal Magic and Iron and Magic, as well as two of the more essential novellas to complete my revisit of the complex and fascinating world that Ilona Andrews have created. If you read through this review, I will assume you are familiar with the series already. If you haven’t read the books yet, but are looking for a good introduction, […]
“Good old blackmail! You just can’t beat it.”
#cbr10bingo #ThrowbackThursday FYI if you are looking to fill in a #Birthday square on your card, Wodehouse’s birthdate is 10/15 (same as mine!) Back in my junior high/high school days, my sister worked at a bookstore and among the treasures she brought home were P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels. I could not get enough of them, and I thoroughly enjoyed the British TV series from the 1990s starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves. Even now when I reread these […]