July 2010
11 posts
The Passage →
ISBN :9780752897851
Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named…
Bishops move diagonally. That’s why they often... →
Knock, Co. Mayo
I’ve just been watching RTE’s Apparitions and to be honest, it just made me sad[1] I mean, I don’t know Joe Coleman, and I really don’t know what he thinks, if…
Do butlers burgle banks? →
ISBN: 0140050361
Charlie Yost, the Chicago gunman, called on Horace Appleby one morning in June as he chatted with Basher Evans before going off to the Wellingford races.
Horace…
Unseen academicals →
ISBN: 9780552153379
It was midnight in Ankh-Morpork’s Royal Museum.
In the back streets of Ankh-Morpork football is king. And those “Faces” in the shove, or crowd, are just as…
I haz new old books! →
One of the bonuses of working in a library is the fact that I get first dibs on the sales! yay!
The gates →
ISBN: 9781444706741
In the beginning, about 13.7 billion years ago, to be reasonably precise, there was a very, very small dot.
Halloween hasn’t quite arrived when Samuel Johnson…
Eclipse →
Okay, so for those of you who have been wise enough to avoid all the Twilight nonsense, here is a quick catch-you-up; a young girl called Bella moves to live with her father after her…
They whispered in dark corners and went out late... →
I’m still a busy little bee working away and retagging old posts. I’m now up to September 2006. That’s only another four years to go and I’ll be up to date! errr, that’s a lot of posts.
Tis odd…
2010 #16 →
The Strain →
ISBN: 9780007311293 : The Strain Trilogy #1
A plane lands at JFK airport and almost instantly it descends into darkness. Air traffic control get no response. It stopped dead on the…
Knife edge →
ISBN: 9780385605274
“Oh, come on, Jude. My feet are killing me,” Morgan moaned.
This continues pretty much where Noughts & Crosses finished up. If you haven’t read that one you…
