Archive for August, 2010
Review: ‘Farewell, My Queen’ by Chantal Thomas
On 14 July 1789, Queen Marie Antoinette and her court spend a pleasant evening in the Great Hall of Versailles, completely unaware that the events of the next few hours will change their lives and their country for ever. Agathe-Sidonie Laborde is the Queen’s reader, and twenty-one years later, an exile in Vienna, she remains [...]
Review: ‘The Anvil of Ice’ by Michael Scott Rohan
First in a trilogy that blends magic with prehistory, here is a tale of potent magicks, immortal struggles, and human courage in the face of evil forces and awesome odds that follows Elof and his band of adventurers in a battle with the evil Mastersmith Mylio. (Goodreads Summary) I picked up this trilogy second hand [...]
Review: ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the [...]
To begin at the beginning
Just like most people who decide to start book blogs, I have always loved to read. I read at an unstoppable pace when I was little, continued right the way through primary school, secondary school and sixth form college before coming to a near complete stop when I started my English degree. Suddenly, I was [...]