Book Review | Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man #booksky
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man was one of my five set texts for my English Lit. O-level (in 1968). It was the only one I enjoyed, although admittedly there is a lot to enjoy in Macbeth. Strife was a play...
View ArticleFriday Flash | Skyborn Harvest #flashfiction #scifi #booksky
For today’s prompt I combined an idea with Chuck’s title ideas. I find it really difficult to recall details from the books, like names of the Elders (who may have changed by now, so that’s easy...
View ArticleBook Review | As You Wake, Break the Shell #scifi #booksky
As You Wake, Break the Shell is the new book from the wonderful Becky Chambers. It is published in both UK and US on October 13th (that’s a change from the original published date!). Thank you to the...
View ArticleRemembering Pippin #guineapig #booksky
No flash fiction today. I’m not in the mood, since my Pippin went over the Rainbow Bridge on Tuesday, having soldiered through inoperable cancer for the last two months. I’m collecting his ashes today,...
View ArticleFive Years On – Taking Stock | #IWSG
So five years ago, on 18th September 2021, I did my first book stall at the Mynt Image Craft and Gift Fairs. And in mid-September this year I worked out what to do about bookings for the coming year....
View ArticleBook Review | Chronicles of St. Mary’s books 5,6… #timetravel #booksky
Continuing with the Chronicles of St. Mary’s by Jodi Taylor. I’m not sure I can really do reviews of these any more, but I’m sure you’d like to know where I’ve got to! No Time Like the Past (St. Mary’s...
View ArticleFriday Flash | Muddy Stars #flashfiction #booksky
Muddy Stars is another Chuck Wendig title prompt. I occasionally wonder how my asteroid miners are managing, in their world which I managed to completely cut off from the rest of the galaxy in...
View ArticleSeptember 26 Monthly Wrap-up #booksky
I would never have imagined my September 26 wrap-up would be like this. A memorable month for all the wrong reasons. As I start this I struggle to remember the first half of the month… but eventually,...
View ArticleBook Review | Temporal Contingency #scifi #booksky
Temporal Contingency is book 4 in Joseph R Lallo’s Big Sigma series. You have to hand it to the author: three seven-book series (along with Free-Wrench and the Book of Deacon) that all grabbed my...
View ArticleFriday Flash | Song for the Bird #flashfiction #booksky
Song for the bird, another Chuck Wendig title prompt. I’ve had time to grow ideas, since I’ve been in hospital since Saturday, being well looked-after. It’s a pulmonary embolism, I’m on blood thinners,...
View ArticleBook Review | If it wasn’t for that dog! #memoir #deaf #booksky
So, I asked Michael Forester if he’d like me to review one of his books on my blog. Michael is one of my colleagues in the craft and gift fairs. We see each other probably every other weekend. I...
View ArticleFriday Flash | Tiger, Burning #flashfiction #booksky
Tiger, Burning is another of Chuck Wendig’s random titles. I didn’t really know how to write this one, I just had a vision of a tiger walking through flames. This is how it turned out, at just over 500...
View ArticleBooker Review | Wolf Hall and The Siege of Krishnapur #histfic #booksky
Wolf Hall, by the late and thoroughly lamented Hilary Mantel, and The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell. Both Booker prize winners, both historical fiction, both redolent of the sights, sounds, smells...
View ArticleFriday Flash | The Alluring Song of September #flashfiction #booksky
Today’s inspiration is a quote from J Lenni Dorner which he used when commenting on my August Wrap-up post. I must check out where it comes from! It’s a short one today, only 250 words. But sweet 🙂 “As...
View ArticleBook Review | Book of Deacon 2 to 3.5 #fantasy #booksky
Joseph R Lallo’s epic fantasy The Book of Deacon continues with The Great Convergence, and nominally ends with The Battle of Verril. But 3.5 is Jade, which he describes as written before Verril, but...
View ArticleFriday Flash | The Apocalypse Ticket #flashfiction #booksky
The Apocalypse Ticket is another from Chuck Wendig’s prompt lists. I stored them for posterity under the Flash Fiction menu here. I confess that I have blurred memories of two short stories from the...
View ArticleIn which I reveal my ignorance | #IWSG
Reveal my ignorance? Surely I am all-knowing? Sadly not, as you will discover as I answer this month’s question. And don’t miss the birthday offer at the end. Kate Larkinsdale, SE White, JS Pailly,...
View ArticleAugust 26 Wrap-up … the other hot one, till it wasn’t
It’s time to join the August 26 version of the Monthly Wrap-up with Natalie the Explorer. And, if you’re in middle or southern England or Europe, it’s been hot. Again. Most places had some hot days,...
View ArticleBook Review | Finding Greyfriars Bobby #non-fiction #dogs #booksky
Finding Greyfriars Bobby is the sort of title that will mean nothing to Gen Z, and everything to Gen 1948-65. And if you’ve never heard of Greyfriars Bobby, but you like dogs, stories of loyalty,...
View ArticleFriday Flash | The Day of the Snowflake #flashfiction #booksky
The Day of the Snowflake. It’s a title drawn from Chuck Wendig’s lists of prompts… pick one word/phrase from each of two lists. I was reminded that I had saved these for posterity under my ‘Flash...
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