Book – Percy Jackson and the Last OlympianAuthor – Rick RiordanYear – 2009Genre – Fantasy Well as I reach the end of the Percy Jackson series, I also reach the halfway mark of The Book Challenge 2010 – and three and a half days ahead of schedule as well! And what a great book to…
Month: June 2010
Book 49 – Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth
Book – Percy Jackson and the Battle of the LabyrinthAuthor – Rick RiordanYear – 2008Genre – Fantasy After the dip for the second book of the Percy Jackson series, Sea of Monsters, things really start to pick up. The danger increases, and we have a backlog of characters that can appear as time goes on. …
Book 48 – Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse
Book – Percy Jackson and the Titan’s CurseAuthor – Rick RiordanYear – 2007Genre – Fantasy For the first time this year I have gotten myself carried away in a series and starting from here I read the final three books of this series in quick sucession – no other books in between, and not even…
Book 47 – Gods Behaving Badly
7 Book – Gods Behaving BadlyAuthor – Marie PhillipsYear – 2007Genre – Fiction Following on from Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters – a novel in which we find out what would happen if the Gods of Greek mythology lived today – we have Gods Behaving Badly – a novel in which we find…
Book 46 – Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
Book – Percy Jackson and the Sea of MonstersAuthor – Rick RiordanYear – 2006Genre – Fantasy This is the second in the Percy Jackson series, and as the year sixes at my school start to whizz through the series, I thought I’d better make sure that I am keeping apace. Eleven year olds have no…
Book 45 – Running With Scissors
Book – Running With ScissorsAuthor – Augusten BurroughsYear – 2002Genre – Memoir Well this is a very strange book. It is a memoir of the childhood of author Augusten Burroughs, yet it is written in prose. It is a ridiculous culmination of events, not one of which sounds even remotely plausible, yet all completely true…
Book 44 – Longitude
Book – Longitude – The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His TimeAuthor – Dava SobelYear – 1995Genre – Popular ScienceLeant to me by Faye Braggins A couple of years back, my good friend Faye lent me several books. To my utter shame, I didn’t read any of…
Lots Of People Reading
When I started this blog, I didn’t realise just how much I was going to enjoy it. I am often surprised by how excited I am to finish a book quite simply so that I can got online and write a little review of it. And it is difficult to explain how much of a…
Book 43 – Jurassic Park
Book – Jurassic ParkAuthor – Michael CrichtonYear – 1991Genre – Biopunk Thriller When I think of all of the massive films that have come out in my lifetime, Jurassic Park is one that I often miss out. I remember Titanic being huge, and the release of Toy Story, the first feature length computer animated film. …
Book 42 – The Life Shop
Book – The Life ShopAuthor – Margaret McAllisterYear – 2004Genre – Children’s I grabbed this book as the third in a three for a pound deal at a charity shop (no expense spared in The Book Challenge) and my expectations were not high. I thought it was a bit of a trashy girly novel, which considering…