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The Hollow (play) - Agatha Christie 25 Sep 2011 | 04:00 am
After my brief dalliance with the acting world while volunteering as an extra during Dining with Alice, I decided to investigate the possibility of furthering my amateur theatre career. A few months a...
A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin 13 Sep 2011 | 08:07 am
I feel this book justifies a far longer review than I am able to give, but as it has been a few months since I finished it and I have since seen several episodes of the television adaptation, this is ...
R.I.P.VI Challenge 12 Sep 2011 | 08:42 am
(Image credit: Sanctuary, by Melissa Nucera) It seems I have returned from my brief sojourn from blogging in time to yet again participate in one of my favourite reading challenges, R.I.P. VI, hosted...
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro 28 Jun 2011 | 08:12 am
"I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as fast as they can, but in the end it's j...
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss 27 Jun 2011 | 09:28 am
"I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the Univ...
The Complete Plays of Shakespeare - Eric Kim 23 Jun 2011 | 08:14 am
A gift from Rhinoa following her visit to the New York comic-con, this collection of very brief summaries of Shakespeare's plays is a pure delight! Definitely a book for fans. Each play is covered in...
The Dark Horse - Marcus Sedgwick 17 Jun 2011 | 08:01 am
The Dark Horse was not the book I was expecting, though I'm not entirely sure what that would have been. A short novel, typical of Sedgwick, The Dark Horse maintains an unsettling and tense atmosphere...
The Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Clare 12 Jun 2011 | 05:03 am
The Mortal Instruments is a six-part series written by the infamous and apparently prolific author Cassandra Clare. The first four books in the series are already available, with City of Lost Souls an...
Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare 12 Jun 2011 | 04:59 am
The Infernal Devices is a trilogy of prequels to the bestselling Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. While the Mortal Instruments series is set in modern day New York, the Infernal Devices i...
Tumbling down the rabbit hole... 7 Jun 2011 | 08:34 am
So far it has been another slow year of both reading and blogging. In my defence, my normally busy life has become even more so with the advent of my new training regime (fitness here we come!), my fl...
