Bart’s Bookshelf

As I’ve just joined yet another challenge, I thought it might be time to take stock and take a look at how I’m doing with them.

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It’s a real treat to hear the author read his other own [...]

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It’s a real treat to hear the author read his other own work, especially when like Gaiman, they are as equally proficient at telling tales as they are at writing them. His narration is as good as any I have heard, whether it be author, actor or professional audio-book artist, always clear [...]

Mrs S | Blue Archipelago
Welcome to the WGs!
I’ll ask about Digital Fortress.
Why did you decide to read it?
Would you recommend it to a girl who enjoyed Angels & Demons and The DaVinci Code?
Why did I decide to read it? Well i was just looking for some lightweight page-turning stuff that wouldn’t need much brainwork. Would [...]

For these travellers are Vampire Slayers and Chust is a dying community - where the dead come back to wreak revenge on the living.

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster travelling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Duff read though it is, the following week he choice proves more enjoyable and awakens in Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer. And so, as she devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brookner to Proust to Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen’s literary odyssey to a close.

Grabbed this one, as part of my recent graphic novels kick. I was in a bit of a lunchtime rush, picked it up, flicked through a page or two, thought it looked ok, it was on sale, and that, they say, was that.
Anyway, turned out to be a happy random grab as it happens, as [...]

Grabbed this one, as part of my recent graphic novels kick. I was in a bit of a lunchtime rush, picked it up, flicked through a page or two, thought it looked ok, it was on sale, and that, they say, was that.
Anyway, turned out to be a happy random grab as it happens, as [...]