The Sculptress by Minette Walters My rating: 3 of 5 stars I picked this up having a vague memory of really enjoying the drama that was screened a fair few years ago and wanting to read something a bit dark without scaring the poo out of myself. I started off really enjoying it, it was […]
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Book Review: Driving Jarvis Ham by Jim Bob
Driving Jarvis Ham by Jim Bob My rating: 3 of 5 stars Hmmm….not sure about this one. Though, it didn’t have a chance in hell, having been read straight after the king of all diary based prose (Adrian Mole), and I found it rather flat. It held me enough to finish it, which I can’t […]
Book Review – Out by Natsuo Kirino
Out by Natsuo Kirino My rating: 4 of 5 stars I don’t usually read crime books, the nearest I have got are the Hannibal novels by Thomas Harris but Out didn’t disappoint. It’s one of those books that consistantly gets good reviews so I picked up a second hand copy and struggled to put it […]
Fifty Shades of “HEY!…..Shut up”
I like to think I’m pretty OK at my job. Once I’m able to stop crying I think I do an alright job at looking stuff up on the computeoid and then going to the place where it is. In the last week my skills have taken on an almost God-like power. I just need […]
Penelope by Rebecca Harrington review
Penelope by Rebecca Harrington My rating: 2 of 5 stars I picked up the proof of this book based purely on the Wes Anderson referencing quote on the back and ummed and ahhed and “Do I like it? Don’t I like it?” for about a week. It turns out I didn’t really like it and […]
Meet the…..well me actually
Back in July The Pewter Wolf asked me some Qs, so here are my As: Meet The Blogger
Blow by Blow
I’ll admit it, I have a *thing* about dead people. And more precisely dead people who killed themselves. Right, that’s probably not the best non-off putting blog intro I could I have written. Let me make it very clear, im not a morbid person, nor do I listen to My Chemical Romance or whoever an […]
One Seriously Messed Up Week…Review
“Nob-ache” I really don’t need to say anything about One Seriously Messed-up Week in The Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite other than that it starts with those WINNING words (or is it a word? What does a – do?). Oh ok, I’ll say a few more things about it. The comparisons to […]
My pitiful 2010 reading list
Last year I decided like some kind of massively anal person, to keep a note of every book I read. I hoped that the ever-expanding list would give me a smug glow and the necessary amount of text under my belt to attain the dinner party status of being “well read”. All did not go […]
Bookworms get your purses ready!
I almost didn’t want to tell anyone about this website, it’s that awesome. The kind of awesome you want to keep secret. I was planning on buying everything from it and nonchalantly brushing off any enquires of “where did you get that amazingly awesome item?” with “oh just this place…you won’t know it”. But Christmas […]
