2016 Classics Challenge

Happy New Year. I’ve decided to take part in the 2016 Classics Challenge being run by Stacey at The Pretty Books. The idea of the challenge is to read a “classic” book every month and share thoughts on blogs, social media etc. I’m always saying I have to read more classics…

Top Ten: Book to Film Adaptations

You know I love films and I love books, so it kind of follows that I love films based on books. Sometimes the adaptations are quite poor and disappointing (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), much less often they improve on the source material (anything based on a Tom Clancy book) but just sometimes a great book leads to a great film…

A To Z Bookish Survey

A few weeks ago I picked up on a meme that brilliant book blogger Jamie at The Perpetual Page-Turner was running. As always I’m a little late to get my entry in but here we go with my A-Z of reading survey….

Top Ten: Movie Fathers

This Sunday we celebrate Father’s Day here in the UK. Depending on your point of view it’s either the ideal opportunity to thank our Dads for everything that they have done for us over the year or a Hallmark Holiday….

#BookTwub Launches

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Thu 29 Sept – 8pm

 
I’m announcing today the launch of a Book Club which will meet via Twitter. I’m also pleased to announce that the first book will be The Book Thief by Markus Zusak….

Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week has been a feature in American libraries for the past 29 years but I’ve not seen much coverage in the British media before. UK libraries are coming together from 24th September to highlight the growing issue of censorship and challenges to libraries stocking particular books.