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January Reading: New Year, New Process

January Reading: New Year, New Process

My January book pile.    This year I have set myself a routine. Instead of meandering about pick books willy-nilly, based on system-less and entirely arbitrary decisions books shall be chosen this way:

 monthly Old Baggage’s Book Club book, chosen by a club member;

 one off my ‘unread but I’ve owned it more than a year non-fiction’ pile;

 Penguin Reading Challenge(this year I’ve taken the…

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Reading For Pleasure Tube Map

Reading For Pleasure Tube Map

Brilliant idea fro helping kids find new reading material

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Goodreads Best Books 2018

Goodreads Best Books 2018

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Behind The Oil Myth - A Personal Epiphany

Behind The Oil Myth – A Personal Epiphany

OK, this is not a book post – nor is it any kind of a review, it’s one of the rare ‘other’ posts I warned you I would be making.

I recently got a reminder on Facebook  of a post I made a year ago. It described the sudden realisation I had come to during a conversation with one of my kids some time previously. In light of the news we’ve had about the pervasive, invasive effects of plastics in…

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Delightful French Children's Tale About A Family of Gourmet Mice

Delightful French Children’s Tale About A Family of Gourmet Mice

The Mice of Bistrot des Sept Frères by Marie Letourneau The Mice of Bistrot des Sept Freres

A family of French mice own a little Bistro famous for it’s soup. One day when the Papa Mouse is out buying ingredients, including the secret ingredient that makes his soup so famous, an important critic arrives and demands the soup!

What will theseven brothers do? The don’t have the secret ingredient!…

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Other People's Kids, Other People's Humour...

Other People’s Kids, Other People’s Humour…

Pico Bogue: Striking the Balance Script by Dominique Roques – Art by Alexis Dormal Pico Bogue: Striking the Balance

I picked this up through NetGalley. Short version: I struggled with it.

I had hoped it would be an enjoyable, easy, and amusing read. I love the art-work but the text just fell flat. I can see where the jokes are supposed to be, where the humour should be but it just wasn’t coming…

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Thornhill A beautifully rendered YA ghost story I'm not a big YA reader, but you can definitely sell me a book with a cover, Pam Sym's…

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Fire & Fury

You can’t make this shit up!

  By  now you will have read a number of (probably contradictory) reviews for this book, which will probably have given you quite a lot of detailed (and probably contradictory) information about the book.

So here’s avery brief answer and overview to help you if you are still wrestling with the question “Should I buy this book, should I read this book, will I be left…

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Bats in The Belfry

Bats in The Belfry

A Cosy Crime sleeper worthy of resurrection

I’m a huge fan of Cosy Crime, I cut my grown-up reading teeth on Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers, so it should be no surprise that I’m a big fan of the British Library’s inspired decision to republish lost Golden Age novels.

Fifty-one re-issues in and I’m still stunned at the number of authors who had stellar careers as crime writers, were fully…

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