What a terrible cover!! I ignored this book for months totally put off by it and I’ll admit the book blurb too. But it popped up on a few “best of 2018” lists so I gave it a try. I loved it, and will be re-reading it shortly. I’ve read some other Talia Hibbert’s so I am not sure why I waited so long (oh yes, the cover!). Ruben is our wayward Prince (of a small made up Scandinavian island) and he meets Cherry at […]
A Long and Complicated Read
I’ve just finished this book, having bumped it way up my TBR list based on a review I read on here a short while ago. On the surface, it’s an engaging story about a bunch of misfit species on a space ship that tunnels wormholes in space to help faster interstellar travel. Our erstwhile captain is given a lucrative contract to build a new tunnel near a new planet, which has been taken over by an extremely war-like species that somehow are now part […]
I Tikka a Chance
This is a cute little novella from a new to me author. At 72 pages, it can be read pretty much in one sitting. Our heroine with the unlikely name of Pinky Grover (she admits her name makes her sound like a Muppet) has had to give up her dreams of studying for her Masters in Anthropology and come back to small town Indiana to work in her parents Indian restaurant whilst her mother recovers from cancer. The book opens with her mother returned […]
A Horrifying Look at Apartheid from the Inside
I’ve had this book sitting on my Kindle for a while now but finally got around to reading it. Trevor Noah is a great storyteller and the book is organised into chapters around events that have the same theme or are just based on a specific event. Each chapter/vignette is prefaced by a factual couple of pages explaining the context for what is about to follow. For example there is a long story occurring when Trevor is in his late teens that is centered around […]