I always post my book reviews to Amazon as well as here and Goodreads. My latest review, The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley, was rejected by Amazon - first time I've ever had a review rejected. I couldn't quite figure out why, since there was no product placement, obscene language, libel. But I ( Read more... )

Goal: 100 books
Read: 109 books

Fiction: 2
Non-Fiction: 107

Final Page Count: 44,563 pages
Average Length: 409 pages
Daily Average: 122 pages a day
Shortest Book: Boomers: The Cold-War Generation Grows Up - Victor D. Brooks (208 pages)
Longest Book: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke (1024 pages)

Best Books:
♥ Alexander Hamilton ( Read more... )

I'm only ten pages in to Kate Harding's Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It
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My Kindle died this morning. One minute it was fine, I put it down to go and get dressed, and when I picked it up it was dead. Frozen. Kaput. It won't turn on, it won't restart, my computer doesn't recognise it ( Read more... )

Ugh, I hate it when you've got to a really exciting bit in a book and you have to put it down and go to work.

That said, it's not like I don't know what happens. I'm reading Tom Holland's Persian Fire
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I'm reading Erik Larson's Dead Wake
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Alexander Hamilton is about to head off for his duel with Aaron Burr, and I don't want to read any more. If I stop reading before the last chapter then he'll still be alive - although, you know, he's been dead for 211 years...

I'm currently reading Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton (again!), and once more getting ridiculously indignant on Hamilton's behalf and even more ridiculously pissed off with Thomas Jefferson ( Read more... )

Don't you hate it when you're jonesing to read a book on a particular topic and you figure someone must have written something on it, but you can't find anything?

I'm currently reading a book about Edward III; and he was a king who relied very heavily on the Arthurian myth in his vision of kingship, in his ideas about chivalry, pageantry, royal ( Read more... )

Apparently today is Blue Monday. The most depressing day of the year. A 'perfect storm' of post-Christmas blues, bad weather, Christmas present and January sales over-expenditure and the failure of New Year's Resolutions.

Yeah.


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