Book quote of the day

“And she looked back again at the foul and dismal shore, so bleak and blasted with disease and poison, and thought of her dear Pan waiting there alone, her heart’s companion, watching her disappear into the mist, and she fell into a storm of weeping. Her passionate sobs didn’t echo, because the mist muffled them, [...]

What I Learned From Harry Potter

The Harry Potter series is great because of the following reasons: It shows you what real friends are like – Ron and Hermione could have just stayed at home but they put everything  into helping Harry destroy Voldemort and his cronies. Even the most seemingly perfect genius has flaws and a past they are ashamed [...]

Book Review: Every Other Day

I have just finished reading “Every Other Day” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, a YA novel about a girl who becomes a supernatural hunter every other day. One day, Kali is a normal teenager, a weak human, then for 24 hours she becomes something decidedly less so, with the ability to heal fast, never gets tired, [...]

Book quote of the day

“But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the [...]

February Book Challenge – DAY 15

First “chapter book” you can remember reading as a child This is difficult, because i read from a young age and read a lot of chapter books and i can’t remember the first one! It was possibly The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, but i’m not certain!

Book Review: Grimm’s Fairy Stories

I have been reading Grimm’s Fairy Stories on my Kindle and really enjoyed re-reading stories from my childhood! These are the early versions of the stories we know and love, although they are a bit darker than the modern Disney versions we know, but that makes them much better i think! My favourite stories include: [...]

Children’s Book Week 2011

This week (3rd-9th October) is Children’s Book Week! More information can be found here at the Booktrust. It is a celebration of children of primary school age reading for pleasure, with lots of events happening to tie in. It got me thinking about all the books i read as a child, and there were quite a [...]

Book Review: Unwind

I have just finished reading “Unwind” by Neal Shusterman. Wow. Talk about thought-provoking! The book’s blurb reads: “The process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive is called ‘unwinding’. ‘Unwinding’ is now a common, and accepted, practice in society. – In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body [...]