Since I’m sick* and way behind on reviews, I’ve realised the only way to catch up is to make them speed reviews and post a whole batch at once.
The Age of Napoleon; Alistair Horne, eng, 235
Interesting, but a little choppily written, and also the author assumes you know certain things and never explains them, [...]
Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, B, Book Blowout, C, Classics, D, English, GLBT interest, Historical, History, Lifestyle, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Sex, sexuality & gender, Speed reviews, Swedish, To Be Read, Young Adult | 1 Comment »
Torchwood: Something in the Water
by Trevor Baxendale
English
255 pages
BBC Books
ISBN: 978-1-846-07437-0
First line: The Late Bob Strong.
Back cover blurb:
Dr Bob Strong’s GP surgery has been treating a lot of coughs and colds recently, far more than is normal for the time of year. Bob thinks there’s something up but he can’t think what. He seems to [...]
Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Book Blowout, C, English, GLBT interest, Science Fiction | No Comments »
A Strong and Sudden Thaw
by RW Day
For the Here Be Dragons reading challenge.
English
333 pages
Iris Print
ISBN: 978-0-9787531-1-5
First line: There’s an old scenic view about halfway up the mountain, alongside where the old highway runs.
Back cover blurb:
Dragons in Virginia?
Nearly a hundred years after the Ice changed the face of our world, the people of Moline work [...]
Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, English, GLBT interest, Here Be Dragons, Romance, Science Fiction | 2 Comments »
Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
by Justin Richards
English
254 pages
BBC Books
ISBN: 0-563-48642-2
First line: Death was hiding in Kaspar’s pocket.
Back cover blurb:
Starfall — a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS.
The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope [...]
Posted on June 8th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Adventure, B, English, Science Fiction | No Comments »
Doctor Who: The Stone Rose
by Jacqueline Rayner
English
254 pages
BBC Books
ISBN: 978-0-563-48643-5
First line: Rose carefully dropped three pound coins into the large collecting box at the entrance to the British Museum.
Back cover blurb:
Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum — a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Adventure, B, English, Science Fiction | No Comments »
Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned
by Stephen Cole
English
254 pages
BBC Books
ISBN: 0-563-48644-9
First line:How can something so big sink so fast?
Back cover blurb:
When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to hear that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Adventure, B, English, Science Fiction | No Comments »
Doctor Who: I Am a Dalek
by Gareth Roberts
English
106 pages
BBC Books
ISBN: 0-563-48648-1
First line: Rose checked the seal on her space helmet, then she looked across the TARDIS controls to the Doctor.
Back cover blurb:
Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up on the Moon, Apollo-mission [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Adventure, C, English, Science Fiction | No Comments »
Making History
by Stephen Fry
For the A-Z reading challenge.
English
556 pages
Arrow
ISBN: 0-09-946481-0
First line: It starts with a dream.
Back cover blurb:
Michael Young is convinced his history thesis will win him a doctorate, a pleasant academic post, a venerable academic publisher and his beloved girlfriend, Jane.
A historian should know better than to think he can predict the future.
Leo [...]
Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, A-Z Reading Challenge, English, Science Fiction | 1 Comment »
