Monthly Archives: August 2010
Talking Books…
Some photographs I only discovered at the weekend that The Converted One took in Scarthin Books café of my Gran and I seem the perfect pictures for today’s post because they are pictures of us firstly having some kind of … Continue reading
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The Bookboy Reads #2
Hello and welcome to my second book blog. Hope you will enjoy it and thank you very much for the response I got for my first blog. My first book today is going to be a newly released book. A … Continue reading
Filed under Bookboy Reads, Puffin Books, Scholastic Books
Spending Sundays With A Classic?
No, no you haven’t gone mad and neither have I. I am well aware that today is Saturday and not Sunday. However today seems a befitting day to launch a little something new, that gets me (and maybe some of … Continue reading
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Not Talking About Books
Though the above might not exactly be what I have been doing for the last few weeks yet it is slightly how I have felt of late. I know if you have popped by the blog and seen the posts … Continue reading
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Lastest Incomings & Postal Problems
I thought as I haven’t done one for ages and ages I would do a post on the latest arrivals from some of you and some lovely publishers over the last month and a bit. First though I need share … Continue reading
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The Green Carnation Countdown and a Competition
Just a quick post before some bookish thoughts coming later in the day… I haven’t really mentioned The Green Carnation Prize properly for a while. I have been a little worried if I keep on mentioning it I will sound … Continue reading
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A Trip To Gran’s… Do Come Along
I know a lot of you like all things Granny Savidge Reads and so I thought I would do a little report back from the trip that myself and The Converted One went on two weekends ago back to my … Continue reading
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Started Early, Took My Dog – Kate Atkinson
When one of the books you have been most looking forward to all year pops through my letter box my mind seems to split in two. The first half wants to drop whatever it is I am already reading and … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2010, Kate Atkinson, Review, Transworld Publishing
Coraline: The Graphic Novel – Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell
I do love the library for the fact that you can try something different. I used to love comics as a kid, particularly ‘The Beano’ and anything to do with Batman. The latter led me onto a real phase of … Continue reading
Filed under Bloomsbury Publishing, Graphic Novels, Neil Gaiman, Review
A Small Swift Saturday Survey
I was away ‘oop north’ visiting family last weekend, report coming next week, and now have some of my family coming to stay from the north this weekend (my Aunty Caz and her children)! So I thought I would just … Continue reading
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Heartburn – Nora Ephron
I have always been rather a fan of Nora Ephron’s films in the past, they aren’t my all time favourites, though Julie & Julia could one day end up there, but I have enjoyed them enough that myself and a … Continue reading
Filed under Nora Ephron, Review, Virago Books
