August 2010
13 posts
The man who lives with wolves →
Shaun Ellis ISBN: 9780007327157 It was early morning. I had crept out of my bed, as I o ften did as a child, and gone out into the nearby barn where the farm dogs slept, to curl up…
Aug 31st
Bridge of birds →
ISBN: 0345321383 I shall clap my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. In an Ancient China, that never was, Yu Lu (not to be confused with the eminent author of The…
Aug 26th
The devil in the flesh →
ISBN: 9781906548254 translated by Christopher Moncrieff I am going to bring a great deal of criticism on myself. Although the 1930′s mini challenge has come to an end, when I…
Aug 21st
From Paris with love →
From Paris with love James Reece is trying hard to become a secret agent while working at the American Embassy in Paris. He is smart[1] and plays chess[2] And he is in love…
Aug 20th
A civil contract →
A Civil Contract - Georgette Heyer ISBN: 0330235192 The library at Fontley Priory, like most of the principal apartments in the sprawling building, looked to the south-east,…
Aug 15th
The emotional lives of animals →
ISBN: 9781577316299 Many animals display their feelings openly, publicly, for anyone to see. The back of this book tells me that “award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff” has spent years…
Aug 11th
I’m a criminal! →
It’s odd, I ended up watching a music documentary last weekend, Some Kind of Monster is documentary about the making of Metallica’s[1]St. Anger album, or at least that is what it was…
Aug 11th
Weekly photo #17 →
Dinner! Looks lovely doesn’t it?
Aug 10th
More new books →
Yes, I’m adding yet more to the tbr pile, I am doomed! Doomed I tells ya. But they were free so even if I never read them I’m still doing fine :) I’ve read this one already, but don’t…
Aug 10th
Week 393 →
Coma :: Robin Cook Aristotle :: philosophy. Pink eye :: cattle Expensive :: far too Dancer :: in the dark Lipstick :: Maybe its maybelline Buffer :: ing… youtube video loading Stilettos…
Aug 9th
Me Cheeta: the autobiography →
ISBN: 9780007280162 Me Cheeta - James Lever On my last day in motion pictures I found myself at the top of a monkey-puzzle tree in England, helping to settle a wager between that…
Aug 9th
Olympos →
ISBN: 0575072628 Olympos - Dan Simmons I really loved Ilium when I read it in June so was looking forward to this, the sequel. And it kicks off right where we left the story in the…
Aug 9th
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes... →
Well, that is the end of summer, August, and so Autumn is here. I don’t know if we can complain, we had a lovely June. July was, well, rainy and wet. But one month of sun isn’t too shabby,…
Aug 5th