Title – Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder Author – Tony Hawk (with Sean Mortimer) Year – 2000 Pages – 307 Genre – Autobiography I wish I was a skateboarder. I had a skateboard once – Jeni got it for me. I couldn’t even stand on it. But ever since I picked up a copy of Tony Hawk’s…
Month: February 2020
Book 257 – The Red House Mystery
Book – The Red House Mystery Author – AA Milne Year – 1922 Pages – 223 Genre – Crime When I was a kid, I read just about any Enid Blyton book that I could get my hands on, and I read them again and again and again. I had all the Famous Five books,…
Book 256 – The Thursday Night Letters
Book – The Thursday Night Letters Author – P.K. Munroe Year – 2007 Pages – 128 Genre – Humour I don’t know, maybe I am just getting old? I feel like maybe there was a time when this would have been really funny to me. Have I left that behind now? Can I laugh any…
Book 255 – The Amber Spyglass
Book – The Amber Spyglass Author – Philip Pullman Year – 2000 Pages – 550 Genre – Fantasy Series – His Dark Materials And so this trilogy concludes. I like to try and leave a gap between parts of a series, and I did so here, but I was very much looking forward to getting…
Book 254 – Girl Meets Boy
Book – Girl Meets Boy Author – Ali Smith Year – 2007 Pages – 164 Genre – Fiction Every now and then a book pops up on my bookcase that I have no idea how it got there. This is just such a book. Scanning though in my never ending quest to make everything fit…
10 Years, 250 Books
I started this book blog over on Blogspot in 2010. Many thanks need to go to Bob who inspired me to do so, and therefore gave me one of the most enjoyable outlets for writing and literature that I have had. Since then, I have had moments where I kept it up to date almost…
Book 253 – The Subtle Knife
Book – The Subtle Knife Author – Philip Pullman Year – 1997 Pages – 341 Genre – Fantasy Series – His Dark Materials The year before last, I started re-reading the His Dark Materials books having taken Northern Lights with me to Venice. This was in preparation for the start of the new TV series…
Book 252 – Truth to Power
Book – Truth to Power Author – Jess Phillips MP Year – 2019 Pages – 224 Genre – Politics and Thought A couple of years ago, I nailed my colours to a mast and became a member of the Labour Party. I have made some decisions in my life about my politics, but there has…