Favourite Books of the Year!
I had a hard time weeding out and choosing between different books in a series for these (didn’t seem fair to leave them out!), so for each of the following sections, there is no particular order and any book could count In the final section where I select my [...]

Welcome to part 2 of my yearly review. (If you missed yesterday’s post, where I break down my reading and blogging stats, you can find it here.)
Today, I’ll be looking at how I did with all the challenges I entered this year, so if that kind of thing doesn’t interest you, feel free to [...]

Ah, time for my favourite post of the year! I do so love working out the stats and deciding on my reads of the year (and changing my mind, then picking them again, and then working out how I can bend my own rules to include everything…)
Apologies in advance as I’ve gone [...]

Well, as many book bloggers are doing, I’m taking a quick look at my reading so far this year, checking out my stats and picking out my favourites so far. (It’ll be interesting to see how many of  the ten books I’ve selected feature in my end of year wrap-up. There are  some that I’m [...]

Inspired by Maw, I thought I’d have a quick trawl through my stats and see if there were any interesting or amusing keywords and search terms that brought visitors to my site, this past month.

about the setting in hugo cabret
Paris, 1931. Brian Selznick’s own site is a fantastic resource.
“it’s only half an hour since someone”
Last [...]

It’s time to take a look back on the month of February to see what happened in the life of this blog. During the last month 1600 visitors stopped by Bart’s Bookshelf and that makes it my 2nd busiest month yet (and the busiest ever non Read-a-Thon month) not bad for the shortest one in [...]

Books Read (& Reviews Posted)

The Brass Key by Richard Poole
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
The Dark Flight Down by Marcus Sedgwick
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Old Magic by Marianne Curley
Deep End by Sam Hutton
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (Audiobook)
Final [...]

I’ve been working on this post on or off for a few months now, just tweaking things as and when I thought of them, still it’s been a fun few days finishing and tidying up the thing.
On the reading front this year can only be classified as a success! After a few years [...]

New Books to the Shelf this Month

Let’s see… 15 Books in this month and 6 read so far and at least 2 to be kept for specific challenges next year, that’s not too bad a ratio is it?
Talking of which….
Books Read and Reviewed

The Young Merlin Trilogy by Jane Yolen
Harry, a [...]

A little later than usual this month, but these are the most popular posts of the last 30 days!

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Maximum Security (Cherub Book #3) – Robert Muchamore Always popular posts, this is the fist time one of the CHERUB books [...]