The Reading Stack

Why is it so hard to write well about the books and poetry I like best? Recently I wrote a review for With a Sword in My Hand, a marvellous historical tale with a truly feisty heroine and loads of medieval weaponry. What more could I ask – and the book won a swag of…

#2 son and I are reading Gamer’s Quest by George Ivanoff. #2 is not all that open to non-Goosebump books at the moment but the cover caught his eye. He gave it the ‘one chapter read-aloud-by-mum’ test. I stopped at the end of Chapter 1 and asked, “Well?” “Keep going”, he waved me on. Instead…

I was very excited to receive Dee White’s Letters to Leonardo in the mail this week. I’ve listened with interest to Dee discussing her ten-year-journey from idea to publication and am looking forward to reading the final result. The cover looks wonderful. Dee’s cyber launch is happening here on 1st July and her blog tour…

It’s 12.20am and that means I’ve missed two days blogging. So it’s excuses time. First I have been helping revamp The Reading Stack web site. Our editor has decided it’s time to make the reviews available on line – especially as we get so many requests for copies and this means people can print now…