• Musing Mondays

    Musing Mondays #1

    Musing Mondays   is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, where they will ask a book/reading-related question, and you answer with your own thoughts on the topic. Q. Do you have people online that you often discuss the books you read with? Not just book groups, but individual readers who share the same taste in books? If so, what do you like best about this? If not, do you wish you did? A. No unfortunately I don’t have anyone that I talk to. I sincerely wish I did have someone that I could get excited about new releases with, but so far I haven’t found anyone. I do read…

  • New Release Sunday

    New Release Sunday #6

    The book released this week that I am most looking forward to checking out is Flutter by Gina Linko. This novel has 352 pages in the hardback edition, and is published by Random House Books for Young Readers. Basically this book is a sci fi adventure about a 17 year old girl who sufferes seizures, and during her seizures she travels through worm holes back in time. There is also the suggestion of some romance, and a mystery to unravel. This sounds like a really unique and interesting idea for a novel, and anything involving time travel is good with me. Blurb:  “All Emery Land wants is to be like any…

  • Random

    New York, Barnes & Noble, The Mysterious BookShop

    Hello, I apologise for being absent for so long, but I promise I have a good reason. On Tuesday of last week, my family and I flew to New York, JFK airport. We did many awesome things and saw lots of iconic sights while there, but today I want to talk about two things we did. On the last day in New York, we made a very special trip to a shop in New York, called The Mysterious BookShop ( http://www.mysteriousbookshop.com) I will insert some pictures here: It was awesome,a room completely stuffed with mystery and thriller novels. There were stacks of novels everywhere, and so many different books to look at, we…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review- Last Bus to Woodstock

    Title: Last Bus to Woodstock Author: Colin Dexter Publication Date: 1975 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pages: 309 Series: Inspector Morse #1 Genre: Mystery, Crime, Detective, Adult Rating: 3/5 The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon’s edition of the Oxford Mail. By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man – facing charges of wilful murder, sexual assault and rape. But as the obvious leads fade into twilight and darkness, Morse becomes more and more convinced that passion holds the key…- Goodreads My mum watched a program on tv called Inspector Morse, a few years ago (I don’t know when it…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Publication Date: 1886 Pages: 144 Genre: Classics, Horror, Science Fiction Rating: 5/5 In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona—the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde.- Goodreads This is a classic short story, that even if you haven’t read the story, you will be familiar with the case of Dr Jekyll and his alter ego Mr Hyde. I wasn’t sure whether I would like this story, as I’m not normally to keen on the archaic language, that was used in this era. I was pleasantly…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review- A Touch of Poison, and Wattpad!

    When looking through book apps on my iphone, I stumbled across Wattpad, an app where people can post and read each other’s stories and novels. I think this is a really cool idea, as when I’m out and about, a light story, is just what I need. As well as amateur story writers, published novelists sometimes post their novels too. The first novel I have read on this app was A Touch of Poison. Title: A Touch of Poison Author: Iron Kite (Wattpad username) A quick plot summary: This novel revolves around a princess, who cannot touch others with her bare skin without giving them terrible burns. When her father devises…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review- Unwind

    Note: This is quite a short review, and I do apologise. This is simply because I read this a while ago, and have been too busy to post. I just wanted to put my opinions down anyway. Title: Unwind Author: Neal Shusterman Publication Date: November 6th 2007 Publisher: Simon & Shuster’s Children (USA) Pages: 352 Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopian Series: Unwind Trilogy #1 Rating: 4/5 In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would “unwind” them. Connor’s parents want to be rid of him because he’s a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut…