I read this in December 2012
Second of The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.
Set in the Ice age, a tale of the clans and a great sickness visited on them and Toraks search for the cure.
I especially like the chapters written form wolfs piont of view... fire is the beast that bites hot, rivers are fast wet, deep wet...
Very enjoyable
9/10
Helen
Friday, 21 December 2012
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
I read this December 2012
The first of The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
Set in the ice age times, the story follows a young wolf and a wolf clan member called Torak.
Written for young teens
Excellent book
9/10
Helen
The first of The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
Set in the ice age times, the story follows a young wolf and a wolf clan member called Torak.
Written for young teens
Excellent book
9/10
Helen
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry By Rachel Joyce
I read this December 2012
Chosen by members of the Waterstones Arc Bury St Edmunds Book Club
I quite enjoyed this book. I found it was more about Harold's wife and her attitudes than it was about Harold. Quite a light good natured read. I found it all worked out a little too neaty in the end for me.
But a nice book - light enough to read on holiday.
Strangely it made me envious of someone who could just get up and do something wholly unprepared...
7/10
Helen
Chosen by members of the Waterstones Arc Bury St Edmunds Book Club
I quite enjoyed this book. I found it was more about Harold's wife and her attitudes than it was about Harold. Quite a light good natured read. I found it all worked out a little too neaty in the end for me.
But a nice book - light enough to read on holiday.
Strangely it made me envious of someone who could just get up and do something wholly unprepared...
7/10
Helen
The Girl who Married a Lion by Alexander McCall Smith
I read this December 2012
I picked it up at the book sale my Creaive Writing group held when we had our Christmas 'Readings from the Writing Room' a get toghther with friends to give us some practice reading out to an audience.
As with most of AMcCS works this is a good bedtime or light reading time book. Lots of very short stories set in Africa.
Very light and enjoyable
7/10
Helen
I picked it up at the book sale my Creaive Writing group held when we had our Christmas 'Readings from the Writing Room' a get toghther with friends to give us some practice reading out to an audience.
As with most of AMcCS works this is a good bedtime or light reading time book. Lots of very short stories set in Africa.
Very light and enjoyable
7/10
Helen
This Damn United by David Pearce
I read this in December 2012
It is a World Book Night Book and I got this copy at Waterstones event at the Arc Bury St Edmunds
I found this a bit hard going. I am/was a massive Brian Clough fan - big mouthed straight talking when so many people in his position were so sycophantic. Agree with him or not he didn't care and was true to his own beleifs..
I still found this hard going though
5/10
Have you read it?
Helen
It is a World Book Night Book and I got this copy at Waterstones event at the Arc Bury St Edmunds
I found this a bit hard going. I am/was a massive Brian Clough fan - big mouthed straight talking when so many people in his position were so sycophantic. Agree with him or not he didn't care and was true to his own beleifs..
I still found this hard going though
5/10
Have you read it?
Helen
Unique by Alison Allen-Gray
I read this in November 2012
I had lent my friends' daughter a selection of business, finance and economics books for her studies and when they were returned, I got this book back as well....
So I thought I would have a go.
It's aimed at a teenage market, which I don't mind there is so much good childrens writing out there and I've never bothered about what age groups stories are aimed at.
SPOILER ALERT
This is about a cloned child who doesn't know that he had an elder brother who died, until he is in hos early teens. This is a book about discovery, of secrets, lies, withheld truths and self discovery.
I really enjoyed this book given to me by mistake..
7/10
Helen
I had lent my friends' daughter a selection of business, finance and economics books for her studies and when they were returned, I got this book back as well....
So I thought I would have a go.
It's aimed at a teenage market, which I don't mind there is so much good childrens writing out there and I've never bothered about what age groups stories are aimed at.
SPOILER ALERT
This is about a cloned child who doesn't know that he had an elder brother who died, until he is in hos early teens. This is a book about discovery, of secrets, lies, withheld truths and self discovery.
I really enjoyed this book given to me by mistake..
7/10
Helen
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore
I read this in November 2012 because it was a Waterstone's Arc, Bury St Edmunds book club read
I must say, despite it's simplicity I enjoyed this dark tale of post war Yorkshire. A young couple move into rented rooms and the wife finds a greatcoast stashed in a cupboadr which she spreads on the bed to keep warm (remember those days when coats were added to the bedclothes for warmth.) The greatcoat calls back it's former owener who starts a relationship with Isabel the young wife...
A real old fashioned ghost story. I really enjoyed it. Mysterious and haunting
7/10
Helen
I must say, despite it's simplicity I enjoyed this dark tale of post war Yorkshire. A young couple move into rented rooms and the wife finds a greatcoast stashed in a cupboadr which she spreads on the bed to keep warm (remember those days when coats were added to the bedclothes for warmth.) The greatcoat calls back it's former owener who starts a relationship with Isabel the young wife...
A real old fashioned ghost story. I really enjoyed it. Mysterious and haunting
7/10
Helen
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