Adam yawned and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, blearily taking in the empty place at the breakfast table. “Morning, mum. Where’s dad? Did he leave for work already?” His mum didn’t turn away from the eggs she was scrambling. “We had an argument last night, so after he fell asleep, I shot [...]
READ MORE »5/5 Tomorrow was one of the first YA books I read as an adult. My wife had read them, and kept telling me to read it. I bought Tomorrow When the War Began, and was blown away by it. Re-reading it, it’s got me hooked all over again. Marsden has an uncanny ability to get [...]
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4/5 Shelley and her mother are mice, hiding away from the world in one of its corners. Both of them carry the scars of their battles with predators – Shelley’s at the hands of school bullies who nearly killed her, and her mother emotional scars from fights against her father and her bullying bosses. So [...]
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3/5 Sometime after the world has starved itself of oxygen and humanity has retreated to sealed domes, our three main characters find themselves bound together in an adventure. Alina, resistance fighter, who knows the pods are an excuse for the elite to hold on to power; Quinn, the son of one of those elite; and [...]
READ MORE »My wife is out of the country until at least the end of March, so it’s just me and a silent house, as it has been for a fortnight now. So after my chores are done, I settle down to do some writing. Now, you will think: no distractions, nothing but me and a keyboard [...]
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3/5 When they were 11, Jimmy, Dave and Sean were playing in the street. A car came up to them, the men inside said they were cops, and took Dave away. Four days later he escaped from the cellar where they were holding him. The story picks up after that when the three are grown [...]
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Little Women 2/5; Good Wives 3/5. The version I downloaded from Project Gutenberg contained both Little Women and the sequel, Good Wives, so this is a combined review. In 19th century Massachusetts, a family of four girls and their mother live in ‘poverty’. (I use the word in quotes because they can, apparently, afford a maid.) [...]
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Oh,my. There, I’ve gone and said it. Now I feel like a fool, and the look on your face says you don’t understand, you don’t understand at all. I’ll be honest, it was a hard thing for me to say, right out there, right at the start. It’s only three little words, but they’re the [...]
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5/5 Everyone over the age of 14 has been consumed by a virus that essentially turns them into zombies. Only the children are immune…for now, maybe. This is number four in what Charlie Higson is now planning to make a seven book epic, and there’s a sense of things being set up for the later [...]
READ MORE »This week, I got a bee in my bonnet about getting some tax back from the IRS (The US tax service). I’ve looked into it before, but it’s always been such a labyrinthine procedure, I’ve thrown my hands in the air and said “Keep the money, life is too short!” The thing is, Amazon and [...]
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