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Review: 52 Times Britain was a Bellend by James Felton 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School by James Felton…

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Review: Sophie’s Halloo by Patricia Wynn Sophie's Halloo by Patricia WynnMy rating: This is a rather lovely braincandy comfort read. There's very little conflict, and what there is is pretty easily resolved.

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Review: The Paper Princess by Marion Chesney

Review: The Paper Princess by Marion Chesney

The Paper Princess by Marion Chesney My rating: [rating=3]

A fun, light read laced with some gentle satire – society believes Felicity’s masquerade because no-one wants to risk looking stupid by admitting they’ve never heard of ‘Brasnia’ or its royal family. Several characters – the stepfather, the butler, the stuck-up fiancée – deliberately lean towards caricature, and Miss Chubb(inski) is…

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Review: Walking Home by Clare Balding Walking Home: My Family and Other Rambles by Clare BaldingMy rating: I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook, and having Clare Balding narrating herself was great.

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Review: Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon(Vatta's War #1)My rating: I loved this book when I first read it, and I still do now.

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Review: Those Endearing Young Charms by Marion Chesney Those Endearing Young Charms by Marion ChesneyMy rating: He's an arse who can't admit when he's in the wrong; She's a sheltered teenager with her head in the clouds.

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Review: My Fake Rake by Eva Leigh My Fake Rake by Eva Leigh (Union of Rakes #1)My rating: Oh, those oblivious nerds-in-love. Their dorkiness made me grin, I enjoyed their chemistry, and I even liked their obstinate insistence on sticking to the plan and thus making themselves miserable.

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Review: WTF? by Robert Peston

Review: WTF? by Robert Peston

WTF: What have we done? Why did it happen? How do we take back control? by Robert Peston [Audiobook] My rating: [rating=4]

A really interesting listen, and I think reading (/listening to) it now in Feb 2020 with knowledge of what’s happened since the book concluded – changes in party leaderships, for eg – makes it more so. It’s a great analysis of all the WTF-ery that’s been going on in British…

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Review: Lady Sparrow by Barbara Metzger

Review: Lady Sparrow by Barbara Metzger

Lady Sparrow by Barbara Metzger My rating: [rating=4]

This was a fun read. It has plenty of those little tongue-in-cheek moments and wry asides that I like about Barbara Metzger’s books. It’s not all fluffy braincandy, but even the more serious subjects are kept fairly light. Not so much that it glosses over them, though. Will probably read again one day.

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Review: An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair

Review: An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair

An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair My rating: [rating=5]

I thought I’d gone off the SFR genre lately, but when I finally went through and got all my old palm-reader books from Fictionwise converted so that I can read them on my current e-reader, I opened this one to check it all looked ok, and was hooked all over again. I’m pretty sure this was also the first book of the genre I’d read back…

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Review: Never Tempt a Rogue by Christy Carlyle Never Tempt a Rogue: A Rogues' Rulebook Novella by Christy Carlyle My rating: I vaguely remember reading this when I first bought it, and I'm fairly sure I enjoyed it then.

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Teenage Dreams

It’s my blogoversary (or my blog’s blogoversary, or whatever) today, and slightly scarily it’s now 13 years old. I’m expecting hormonal tantrums with it banging around the house and yelling that it hates me any day now.

They grow up so fast!

And now that…

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Review: In the Bed of a Duke | Frozensoul.net

I have been blogging.  No really, I have – just not here.  And no, not every day either, but at least it’s more than … not blogging?  Whatever, it’s a blog, not the end of the world.  No excuses needed!

Anyhow, what I have been doing is writing short…

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Phonelessness

Woe is me, etc etc, I am bereft of my mobile phone.  Oh noes, dramaz dramaz, how will I survive?!

Quite well, as it happens.  To be fair, I have a tablet – an old slightly creaky model, yes, but a tablet nonetheless – so it’s not like I don’t have any…

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Review: Hell's Gate by David Weber (DNF)

Hell’s Gate by David Weber My rating: [rating=1]

In the almost two centuries since the discovery…

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Friday. Ish.

I really am a bit rubbish at this, aren’t I?  I forgot to blog again.  So I’m going to pretend it’s still Friday and this post totally counts.  Because actually I didn’t so much forget as get hit by the nap truck in the afternoon, and I only just woke up…

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Accidental week off.

Or nearly a week, anyway.  Six days.  I completely forgot to blog at the weekend… and managed to carry on forgetting all week until today.  Whoops!  So I’ll extend my blogging an extra week, I think.  Or maybe I’ll keep going until the end of July.  I’ll…

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