Around five years ago, I completed a book challenge, which I originally found at Blogs-Of-A-Bookaholic. Basically, the idea was to post every day for 30 days, with a set theme for each day. I had fun participating in that challenge,… Read More ›
Literature
Books I Read in August 2013
We’ll Eat Again by Marguerite Patten Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King Family of Angels by Mike Ripley The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning The Reunion by Simone Van der Vlugt (43 pages) Fan Mail by P… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge – Day 30
A Book You Couldn’t Put Down Wow. It seems as though I have made it through to the end. Well, for this final category, I am going to use a trilogy, rather than a single book. You may recall that… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge – Day 29
A Book You Hated The list of books that I have hated is surprisingly short. I sometimes cannot get into a book, but disliking it enough to add it to my ‘do not read’ list is rare. Such books do… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge – Day 28
Favourite Quote From A Book I am actually going to include more than one quote here, but I think it should be acceptable because they are all from the same book – The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield: Quote 1:… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge – Day 25
The Most Surprising Plot Twist Or Ending I cannot think of a single book to list here, but I can think of an author. There is one author whose books I enjoy reading who never fails to surprise me. Her… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge – Day 24
Book You’re Most Embarrassed To Say You Like/Liked Once again, I find myself stuck for an answer. I do not have a book to list here for the simple reason that I am never embarrassed to tell people if I… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge – Day 21
Book You Tell People You’ve Read But Haven’t (Or Haven’t Actually Finished) This is the first day of the challenge on which I have been unable to post a single thing. The reason for this is that I never say… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 19
A Favourite Author
30 Day Book Challenge Day 16
Most Thought-Provoking Book I am not going to choose a book for this category. Rather, I am choosing an author. That author is Jodi Picoult. Jodi Picoult is an excellent author who engages the reader from page one. Her characters… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 15:
A Character Who You Can Relate to the Most I believe one of the characters I relate to the most is Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter series. Like Neville, I was a late bloomer. I was no raging beauty… Read More ›
Books I Read in April 2013
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick The Revolution Will be Digitised: dispatches from the information war by Heather Brooke (50 pages) The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn Eclipse by Richard North Patterson (63 Pages) Crime and Punishment by… Read More ›
Books I Read in March 2013
The Third Man by Graham Greene Dracula by Bram Stoker Incandescence by Greg Egan The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde Don’t Kiss Them Good-Bye by Allison DuBois One for the Money by Janet Evanovich Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 14:
A Book That Made You Cry Whether you are talking about books or movies or music, I cry at the drop of a hat. Therefore, there are loads of books that I could use for today’s blog. The book I… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 13:
A Book that Disappointed You As many of my readers will know, I am a huge Stephen King fan. I love the way he spends words to ensure you are on the same page as he is. I love the… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 12:
A Book You Wanted to Read for a Long Time But Still Haven’t Wow. There are so many, many books I could use for today’s challenge. At the time of printing, I have 2,667 books on my wishlist, and over… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 11:
Favourite Classic Book I don’t seem to have read a lot of the classic books that others have, though many are on my wishlist. I think it may be because people often make it their mission to read as many… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 10:
A Book You Thought You Wouldn’t Like But Ended Up Loving One thing about me is that I don’t always read the fine print. Because of this I often find myself adding books to my wishlist because they have an… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 9:
Most Overrated Book Everybody has their own taste in books. One person’s favourite book is another’s most hated. Sometimes a book comes along that is almost universally loved or loathed and, like people, a book’s reputation is often entirely undeserved…. Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 8:
Most Underrated Book In my opinion, one of the most underrated books I have read is a little known book called Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman. First published in 1934, the book takes the form of… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 7:
A Guilty Pleasure Book This is an extremely difficult question for me, because I really don’t have a guilty pleasure book. Having a guilty pleasure book implies that you are ashamed or embarrassed in some way about the book you… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 6:
Book You’ve Read the Most Number of Times I am a bit unsure as to the answer for this one, since I am assuming books read over and over (and over and over and over) to my children don’t count…. Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 5:
Your Comfort Book I am not entirely certain what is meant by a comfort book. Does it refer to a book you read when you just want to be comfortable and don’t want to have to think too much? Or… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 4:
Book Turned Into a Movie and Completely Desecrated Warning: Contains Spoilers! I definitely did not need to look far for an answer to this question. I have seen loads of book-based movies that completely sucked but the one that annoyed… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge Day 3:
The Longest Book You’ve Ever Read Warning: Spoilers! You may find this difficult to believe, considering how much I love books, but I actually have yet to read the most notoriously long books, like War and Peace and so on…. Read More ›
Thirty Day Book Challenge Day 1:
A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just end already Warning: Contains Spoilers! This is a difficult one for me because I am generally fairly happy with the length of series’ that… Read More ›
30 Day Book Challenge
I found this challenge at Blogs-Of-A-Bookaholic. Basically, the idea is to post every day for 30 days. But these aren’t random posts – that would be too easy. Instead, every day has a specific book-related theme. Here is the list,… Read More ›
Blogging for Fame and Fortune by Jason R. Rich
Just about everybody has a blog these days. They are so prolific that it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd. Yet this is exactly what you must do if you wish to make money from your blog…. Read More ›
Don’t judge a book by its cover
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” We are told this all the time. What it really means, of course, is “Get to know someone before you decide whether or not you like them.” Because, when it comes to books… Read More ›
Writing
There are no Pulitzer prizes for writing brilliant shopping lists. —Allan & Barbara Pease in ‘Why Men Lie and Women Cry’
Rafferty's Rules is Closing Down 