Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • The booklist
  • The challenge

Tag Archives: reading

Some ‘light’ holiday reading
Uncategorized

Some ‘light’ holiday reading

Posted on 26 April 2015 by katenich • 8 Comments

A friend of mine recently asked for some recommendations of holiday reads.  I love choosing holiday reads.  I generally like to go for a balance of something serious, something light, something I’ve been meaning to read for ages, something quirky, a good history and so on.  However, when I started this foolhardy challenge to read … Continue reading →

Xena Warrior Princess: Prophesy of Darkness, Stella Howard
Fantasy

Xena Warrior Princess: Prophesy of Darkness, Stella Howard

Posted on 29 January 2015 by katenich • Leave a comment

It was Henry James, dear reader, that drove me to it. I was in such a rage after struggling through that book that I needed something calming to read before bed.  What, thought I, could possibly be the biggest contrast to Henry James that I can find on my bookcase?  The answer was clear and … Continue reading →

The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
Fiction

The Wings of the Dove, Henry James

Posted on 28 January 2015 by katenich • 4 Comments

What a load of dull, pretentious twaddle.  Dear reader, don’t ever put yourself through this book.  Not only is it full of page after page of nothing happening, with unending angsting from cast of thoroughly dull and dislikable characters, but it is also full of sentences like this: She readjusted the poise of her black, … Continue reading →

Star Trek Deep Space 9 2: The Siege, Peter David
Science Fiction

Star Trek Deep Space 9 2: The Siege, Peter David

Posted on 27 January 2015 by katenich • 4 Comments

Like a planet forced by gravity to continue in endless orbit, so too do we find ourselves facing the inevitable prospect of having to read another Star Trek book.  I’ve decided to continue reading the Deep Space 9 series, so we will now return to the world of the brave Captain Sisko, his errant son and … Continue reading →

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Poetry

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Posted on 25 January 2015 by katenich • Leave a comment

Awake!  For morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan’s turret in a Noose of Light I bought this book in a second hand book sale in Wyoming.  I think it appealed to me mainly because … Continue reading →

The Story of Mining in Cornwall, Allen Buckley
History

The Story of Mining in Cornwall, Allen Buckley

Posted on 22 January 2015 by katenich • 8 Comments

Few industries can rival the antiquity of Cornish mining, and still fewer have excited such fascination among economic and social historians. I do love a bold claim and a niche history book. Here we are with both! This is the start of a two part in-depth look at Cornwall.  Today we focus on history, and … Continue reading →

Once We Were, Kat Zhang
Fiction

Once We Were, Kat Zhang

Posted on 18 January 2015 by katenich • 3 Comments

Dear readers, I have a confession to make. I have, for some time now, developed something of a fondness for a genre of books I call Teen Dystopia (possibly other people call it that too).  I’m not proud, but there it is.  Hunger Games, Divergent, you name it and I lap it up. It’s not … Continue reading →

A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
Historical Fiction

A Passage to India, E.M. Forster

Posted on 17 January 2015 by katenich • 5 Comments

Race, religion, love, gender, good and evil, justice and poetry – this book has it all.  It also has a range of characters that draw you in, as much as you find them all maddening, and you ache for the pain they are causing each other.  Set during the Raj, the book is written against … Continue reading →

Star Trek Deep Space 9 1: Emissary, J.M. Dillard
Science Fiction

Star Trek Deep Space 9 1: Emissary, J.M. Dillard

Posted on 13 January 2015 by katenich • 3 Comments

Following my first attempt at reading Star Trek, in which I was notably baffled throughout, E and I have conferred and agreed that it is probably best to take the advice of the immortal Julie Andrews and start at the very beginning.  So, here we are with book one of the third series.  It isn’t … Continue reading →

Murder at Deviation Junction, Andrew Martin
Fiction

Murder at Deviation Junction, Andrew Martin

Posted on 12 January 2015 by katenich • 4 Comments

I awoke this morning needing a gentle start to the day. The after-party following my choir concert last night had been raucous and  I was feeling somewhat fragile.  I had been planning to read Emma’s War next, but couldn’t quite face a book based on a real war story. I also thought it wasn’t worth … Continue reading →

Post navigation

Join 492 other subscribers
Follow on WordPress.com

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Categories

  • Dance (1)
  • Fantasy (4)
  • Fiction (30)
  • Geology (2)
  • Historical Fiction (7)
  • History (13)
  • London (1)
  • murder mystery (1)
  • Play (1)
  • Poetry (1)
  • Science (8)
  • Science Fiction (13)
  • Travel (2)
  • Uncategorized (11)

Top Posts

  • Last Night In Twisted River, John Irving
  • The Great Automatic Grammatizator, Roald Dahl
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
  • The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
  • The Earth From The Air, Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Bookfort!
  • An Expert in Murder, Nicola Upson
  • Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
  • A World Book Day Conundrum
  • The Mammoth Hunters, Jean M Auel
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • bloggingaroundmybookcase.com
    • Join 125 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • bloggingaroundmybookcase.com
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...