This post is going to be short. It’s the second time I’ve written it. I pressed publish on the first version and it all just disappeared, there was no back-up, nothing! So, on with #boutofbooks. We’re all book lovers right? Well I learned of this only yesterday after seeing tweets by some people I follow […]
Do Not Read This
It’s a sad fact that 250 million children across the globe cannot read. So, for them. Do Not Read This. Amazing just how much reading we take for granted isn’t it? If you enjoy reading my blog posts, why not get them direct to your email inbox by subscribing to the blog by clicking […]
Recently Read – Irene by Pierre Lemaitre
Irene by Pierre Lemaitre Genre: Crime fiction. For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irène. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in for him – his every move is headline news. […]
Should Books Be Age Certified?
You walk into a bookshop and it’s split into lovely sections for you to browse. To make it easier to find what you’re looking for. If you’re a writer and you are approaching agents they will want to know what genre it fits into. This, so it can be “shelved” easily in that very bookshop. […]
At What Point Does Crime Fiction Become Merely Gratuitous?
Gratuitous or realistic; the blood and guts, and downright bloody violent scenes shown in TV crime drama’s and written down in crime novels in today’s world? You may think I have an opinion from the tone of the question but I’m not sure I do just yet. But I am wondering at what point we […]
Why Would You Want To be The Next Gone Girl?
I read a book a couple of weeks ago. A great book. A book I absolutely loved. This book made it onto my Favourites list on Goodreads. The thing was, on the back cover of this book was a quote supplied by someone or other stating that this book could easily be the next Gone […]
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