And so it Begins… cbr10bingo So although I’m using this book as my “And so it begins” spot on cbr10 bingo, because it’s the first book in a series, I of course didn’t read it first. I read the second book in the series (reviewed below) first. I don’t what is wrong with me, but it happens like allll the time! Anyway, I’m going to review mostly the characters in these two books because they’re jumbling together in my brain (even though I just finished […]
Classic Worth Revisiting
I recently read this as a read-aloud book with my 10 year old son. He found it at the library and thought it looked interesting, but found that the language was a bit confusing, so we decided to do it as a read aloud, so that we could stop and discuss whatever he did not understand. I had initially read this book years ago, and am glad that I had the opportunity to go back to it. I had forgotten how funny and rather exciting […]
Dead Man Upright: An Elegy for Derek Raymond
I read this one for the Cannonball Run Bingo, category: “This is the End.” It is the last book in the Factory Series. I first came across Derek Raymond’s work on a list of unheralded dystopias. He had written his A State of Denmark in the late-60s in response to British politics of that time. I liked his voice as a write but couldn’t connect with the main character and so I set the book aside. A few months later, I discovered the “Backlisted” podcast, where a […]
Approaching the end game…
Another belting entry in the Toby Daye series, The Winter Long sees Toby hit with a new threat – in the form of those she’d thought she’d already left in her past. First up comes Simon Torquill –identical twin to Toby’s liege, Sylvester, and the man who turned her into a fish for 14 years before the series began – appearing on her doorstep, trying to apologise, giving veiled warnings of doom and spilling her family secrets (chiefly, that he’s her step-dad, something that Amandine […]