Monday 30 July 2018

My Week in Review to the 29th July

I am linking up with The Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly at The Caffeinated Reviewer.

So last Monday, a week ago today, we spent practically all day driving from Sussex to Devon, then returning our trailer tent to its storage facility before finally getting to our Torquay flat at about 7pm. I was so exhausted I nearly caused a minor bump outside the Co-Op. If the other (fortunately alert) driver is reading this, I'm sorry!

Tuesday was a relaxing day where the washing machine did most of the work and I caught up with a good chunk of commenting and blog visiting. So my week started properly on Wednesday morning with a lovely surprise tweet from Weidenfeld and Nicolson. I've won their Bastille Day giveaway! All the lovely books pictured at the top of this post are heading my way! We're obviously supposed to be clearing from our flat right now, not adding to its contents - Dave will be so thrilled!!

Is everyone coping ok with the heatwave resurgence? I'm kinda happy we're back in the flat through August because the lounge at least is shady and cool for most of the day. That FurnaceFriday completely failed to materialise here in Torquay - it actually felt a bit nippy here with the cloud and breeze - and we didn't get to see the blood moon either! Still, I'm getting through a lot of tea to stay hydrated, especially flavours I can leave to go cold. My favourites are Twinings Buttermint which tastes like drinking Murray Mints if you're old enough to remember them! (Are they still made?) I recently cashed in my Maximiles points for a Spice Kitchen loose tea selection pack which arrived this week. Unfortunately each tea is packaged in little self-seal plastic bags which isn't very #PlasticFreeJuly, but they are delicious. If you haven't drunk their Strawberries And Cream Tea blend, you're missing one of my summer highlights!


Huge congratulations to Sheri who's won the bakerdays Letterbox Cake giveaway that closed on Saturday night! This was my second most popular giveaway ever with over 240 entrants - thank you all! If you're not Sheri, don't despair! There's lots more giveaways and freebies listed in Stephanie Jane's Giveaway Linkup and here are the ones you need to get your skates on to enter:

Giveaways closing soon:
30th July
Win PBs of Death In Dulwich and The Girl In The Gallery, both by Alice Castle

31st July
Authors wanting to Win a free Spotlight Post, make sure your book is added to the Spotlight Giveaway Linkup
Bloggers, let me know if you want me to check out your blog for potential nomination for the Versatile Blogger Award
Win a signed PB of The Invisible Case by Isabella Muir

1st August
Win a PB of Blood In The Woods by J P Willie plus your choice of HellBounds books PB

4th August
Win ebooks of On The Fault or Love Beneath The Mighty Dome, both by Ronald J Wichers

Posts on my blogs this week were:
The Versatile Blogger Award
My Week in Review to the 22nd July
Artisan Rainbow - Bracelets
Books From The Backlog - The Wrath And The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
50/50 Friday - Best/Worst Book From the First Half of the Year

Letting Go of Gravity by Meg Leder + #Giveaway + Guest Post
May We Be Forgiven by A M Homes
He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott
Lightness by Catherine Meurisse graphic novel
The Girl In The Gallery by Alice Castle + #Giveaway
Identity Unknown by Karolina Wojciak
The Invisible Case by Isabella Muir + #Giveaway + Excerpt

Around the blogosphere:
I love Kristen's Top Ten Heart Covers at Metaphors And Moonlight, especially the designs for Paper Valentine and Risen.
Joe Congel talks about his journey From Cartoonist To Writer
Danielle at Books Vertigo And Tea discusses why she Appreciates A Negative Review

Have a great week :-)

Artisan Rainbow - Bracelets 

Monday 23 July 2018

My Week in Review to the 22nd July

I am linking up with The Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly at The Caffeinated Reviewer.

I'm got a GoFundMe appeal today which I hope might twang your purse strings or at least get you to click through and hit a share button or two. It's not actually Me being GoFunded (is that a word?) but my sister's friends, talented actresses and playwrights Alexandra and Kate Donnachie, who are taking their play 3 Years, 1 Week And A Lemon Drizzle to Edinburgh! They've got pretty much everything sorted except their own accommodation which is the purpose of this appeal. If you can help out at all, I know it would be very much appreciated. The play explores the true experiences of the sisters in coping when Alexandra developed an eating disorder. There's lots more information Through This Link or you can Buy Your Edinburgh Tickets here. Thank you!


My week has been pretty chaotic and has mainly consisted of zooming between different friends, hours of great chats, and far too much good food. I'm not complaining about the food you understand?! The pace doesn't let up until we drive back to Torquay today and I haven't even really got time to write this post. Apologies for any bizarre typos! And remember my pride last week at having caught up with all my commenting? Yeah, that didn't last long did it. Oops!

In lieu of a 'proper' post, here's a quartet of this week's good eateries that I'm happy to recommend if you're ever thereabouts:

In Cheam, London, Tasha's Tearoom  has a lovely atmosphere with elegant decor. The Banana And Pomegranate Cake is lush - and generously sliced!
In Herstmonceux, Sussex, Indian restaurant Eastern Promise is well worth a try. We'd been here before and were happy to return. My Vegetable Balti was rich and delicious.
In Eastbourne, Sussex, traditional fish and chips doesn't get better than that served at The Holiday Inn. This restaurant has been a favourite of ours for over a decade. We only get to visit annually now and it's a keenly anticipated treat.
Ganapati South Indian Kitchen in Peckham, London, is another superb Indian restaurant with delicious vegetarian thalis.


Posts on my blogs this week were:
Stephanie Jane's #Giveaway and #FreeBook Linkup
My Week in Review to the 15th July
Artisan Rainbow - Coasters

Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
Liberty Landing by Gail Vida Hamburg + #Giveaway
Dortmund Hibernate by C J Sutton + Excerpt
Blood In The Woods by J P Willie + #Giveaway + #FreeBook
Notes From A Big Country by Bill Bryson
The Collision Of Grief And Gratitude by Rosanne Liesveld + #Giveaway
Hold by Michael Donkor

Around the blogosphere:
I'll get back to this!


Have a great week :-)

Artisan Rainbow - Coasters 

Monday 16 July 2018

My Week in Review to the 15th July

I am linking up with The Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly at The Caffeinated Reviewer.
And in bookish news, I am linking up again with Book Photo Sundays over at Ronyell's Rabbit Ears Book Blog.


I think it might just about have been as hot in Spain when this photo was taken as it is now in the UK - perhaps not quite as I am happily reading out in the sun there whereas I've been keenly seeking shade this weekend. I first blogged this photo in the post Sizzling In The Sagunt Sunshine in November 2014.


Dave and I celebrated our 15th Anniversary of togetherness on Friday and, in a nice piece of serendipity, spent the evening with the two people who introduced us all those years ago - thank you Gilly and Dave! Then Saturday evening saw us at the 140th birthday party for our friends Andy and Barbara. (they've 70 years each). So congrats there too! The party was huge and we got to catch up with people we haven't seen in months which was great. Plus the food was unending and delicious (who made the banoffee pie?) and I can now recommend the band The Skarlettos with their fun Two-Tone/Ska vibe!



My Week in Review got pushed a day later than usual because yesterday was the 15th of the month and so time to refresh my Giveaway Linkup. This is a melange of free book links and giveaway competitions, all of which should be current (or at least were up until a couple of days ago when I tidied up the links!) Anything with a date is a giveaway, without a date is a perma-freebie. Feel welcome to add your own as well as entering/downloading any that take your fancy. There's lots of books for everybody and, if you're on the UK mainland, there's a cake giveaway too! (Please note, America is NOT on the UK mainland)


Disappointing news that our Torquay flat which we put up for sale last week has only had one viewing so far. Maybe due to the weather, the football World Cup, the imminent end of the school term, or a hundred and one other reasons! For whatever reason, if you're browsing RightMove this week could you just give our RightMove listing a quick share round your social media?!


Posts on my blogs this week were:
My Week in Review to the 8th July
ReadingWomen - July 2018
Artisan Rainbow - Tote Bags
Books From The Backlog - H2O: A Biography of Water
50/50 Friday - Favourite Book That's the Most/Least Quotable
A Bakerdays cake for our 15th Anniversary! + #Cake #Giveaway

Daughter Of The Sea by Maggie Freeman
Love Beneath The Mighty Dome by Ronald J Wichers + #Giveaway
Riding Shotgun and Other American Cruelties by Andy Rausch
Bottled Goods by Sophie Van Llewyn
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Read, Write, Love At Seaside by Addison Cole + #FreeBook
Death In Dulwich by Alice Castle + #Giveaway

Around the blogosphere:
Sarah at All The Book Blog Names Are Taken nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award! Thank you Sarah! You can read Sarah's Seven Facts About Herself here and I'm hoping to get mine posted later this week.


Have a great week :-)

Artisan Rainbow - Tote Bags 

Saturday 14 July 2018

A Bakerdays cake for our 15th Anniversary! + #Cake #Giveaway

Yesterday was a pretty amazing date in Dave- and Steph-world. We celebrated our 15th anniversary of togetherness. FIFTEEN!! Who'd have thought, a decade and a half ago, that we'd still be such a happy couple after fifteen months, let alone fifteen YEARS? (Of course I have scheduled this post a couple of days in advance so fingers crossed it's still true as it publishes!)

As you read this, we've just started a ten-day holiday catching up with friends and family, some of whom knew us all those years ago and two of whom we hold responsible for getting us together. Thank you Dave and Gilly! We're also marking the occasion by treating ourselves to a hopefully-amazing theatre trip though that won't actually happen until August: The League of Gentlemen are coming to Torquay (of all places)!

In the meantime though, our celebrations started in a smaller way with an adorable Letterbox Cake from Bakerdays. I have blogged about Bakerdays before and think that these cakes are such a brilliant idea. You can enter my giveaway to win a cake for yourself, but first here's my thoughts on our cake.


I chose this personalised Somebunny Loves You design of two cute little rabbits in a floral hot air balloon. The cake arrived thoughtfully packaged to ensure its perfect condition and quite early in the day which was good in this ridiculously hot weather right now. I love the reusable 'Mmm Cake' cake tin. The cake had slid over a little on its board, but was easily nudged back to centre.


Bakerdays offer a variety of recipes including Lemon Drizzle, Chocolate Chip, or gluten wheat free, but I chose the Dairy-Free Sponge. I am told that a completely Vegan cake is in the planning stages so hopefully that recipe will be offered soon. To be honest, if I hadn't known this cake was dairy-free, I wouldn't have guessed from its taste or texture. The sponge is light and moist and the layers of jam under the cake and under the icing gave it a delicious tangy flavour. The icing itself is nicely rich, but not too sweet. Perfect with a good cuppa!


Would you like to win a Bakerdays cake for yourself? Well, if your postal address is on the UK mainland ONLY, you're reading the right blog! You could win your choice of Bakerdays Letterbox Cake posted directly to you!
There's several ways to enter this giveaway via the Gleam widget below.

Bakerdays Letterbox Cake Giveaway

The Giveaway is open until midnight (UK time) on the 28th July and I will pick a winner on the 29th. That winner will have 3 days in which to respond to my email or the prize will be forfeit. GDPR: I will need to pass the winner's email address onto Bakerdays and they will need the winner's postal address in order to send out the prize.

Good luck!

And if you just can't wait for the Giveaway to end, use SUMMER10 at the checkout for 10% off all Bakerdays cakes, cupcakes or balloons. Code expires: Friday 31st August at 23:59pm.

I received a cake for review from Bakerdays. This has in no way influenced my opinion and all thoughts on the product are my own. Links in this post are affiliate links.




Sunday 8 July 2018

My Week in Review to the 8th July

I am linking up with The Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly at The Caffeinated Reviewer.
And in bookish news, I am linking up again with Book Photo Sundays over at Ronyell's Rabbit Ears Book Blog.

Phone box book exchange! 

This fabulous book exchange is at the lovely South Lytchett Manor Campsite, just outside Poole in Dorset and ideally located for catching the ferries to France. I can't remember which books I swapped here now but there was a pretty good selection. I first blogged this photo in the post A good campsite near Poole in Dorset in November 2016.


Super exciting news this week! We've put our Torquay flat up for sale so if you know anyone who would love to live in (part of) a converted Victorian villa in the Devon sunshine, please direct them to The RightMove listing! I've got a few pieces of furniture up for sale too if you fancy a gander at My Gumtree listings!


On a totally unrelated topic, it's great to actually be able to get mail again. If only for a short while (hoping the flat sells quickly!). This week I received two custom-sewn bras which, I think, are the most comfortable I've ever worn.  They are actually a belated birthday present because I got an Etsy voucher back in May. After much deliberating on my part as to what I wanted to spend it on - so many pretty things! - Sarah at KookyClothing got my order. I emailed my measurements, Sarah emailed photos of various fabric combinations, I chose, she sewed and the beautifully wrapped parcel arrived yesterday. Mine are pink/pink stripe, like the photo below, and a grey/blue. I love that the bras are reversible to show off all the colours and that they are far easier to get into than sports bras. The bras are also described as Yoga Tops and they're certainly supportive enough for a Yoga class - and to dash for a bus too. Having suffered from uncomfortable bras for Far Too Long, I'm delighted with these KookyClothing ones and am more than happy to recommend them. Sarah ships worldwide!



I'm proud to have caught up with all the Comments on Stephanie Jane and Literary Flits - Yay Me! (That was Thursday evening mind, and now it's Sunday morning) Huge thanks to everybody who takes a moment to tap out their thoughts! I am loving visiting back to discover new-to-me books and also a smattering of new-to-me blogs. Do feel welcome to include your blog links in your Comments, especially if your Blogger profile doesn't link back to them. There's a couple of folks I haven't been able to find.


On my blogs this week:
My Week in Review to the 1st July
#PlasticFreeJuly 2017-18: The Habits that Stuck
Artisan Rainbow - Notebooks
WorldReads - Five Books from Belgium
50/50 Friday - Best/Worst Book in June

Heroes And Villains by Angela Carter
Venetia by Georgette Heyer
A Study In Shifters by Majanka Verstraete + #Giveaway
On the Fault by Ronald J. Wichers + #Giveaway + Guest Post
Disbanded Kingdom by Polis Loizou
A Long Blue Monday by Erhard Von Buren
The Art Of Travel by Alain De Botton

Around the blogosphere:
vvb32 reads posted her WorldReads from India
Lindsey at Treading My Own Path has a Guide to Reusable Produce Bags for #PlasticFreeJuly
Camillea discusses Medusa for I Heart Characters
Mary Anne Yarde is looking at Victorian superstitions

And finally a brilliantly terrible joke which I spotted via Michelle Hillyard's Facebook page:

Have a great week :-)

Artisan Rainbow - Notebooks 

Monday 2 July 2018

#PlasticFreeJuly 2017-18: The Habits that Stuck

I posted my ten Plastic Free July lifestyle changes on the 1st of August 2017 after having taken part in my first #PlasticFreeJuly challenge. I meant to blog an update three months later about how well my new plastic free behaviours had stuck. The review post didn't happen then so I am writing now instead!

You can find out more about Plastic Free July and how to get involved by visiting PlasticFreeJuly.org

1. Store food in glass jars

I saw many beautiful Instagram and Pinterest pantry shelves on the #PlasticFreeJuly hashtags, all with rows of matching Kilner jars for pulses, pastas and spices. I don't have that kind of budget though so decided to keep the jars we empty - jam, honey, mayonnaise, etc - and gradually transfer everything in our cupboards from plastic tubs to glass jars. YES! This habit has not only stuck but I found a boxful of proper Kilner jars at a French Vide Grenier (boot fair) a month or so back so my cupboard shelves are slowly getting prettier



2. Ditch the clingfilm

As Dave will verify I am a tad paranoid about leaving food uncovered in the fridge. I hate when it starts drying out. I used to automatically reach for the clingfilm roll, use a big square for maybe a day, then screw that up and throw it away. Now I can either use tubs freed up from 1. or revert to old-fashioned solutions like upturning a bowl over a plate (or vice versa) for leftovers. I recently received a trio of BeeBeeWraps too and I absolutely love these for food storage. YES! I haven't bought any cling film in over a year and haven't even yet used up the roll we already had prior to July 2017. The BeeBeeWraps were great and lasted about 7-8 months. I didn't replace them though because I found I had enough jars and tubs without needing more wraps.

3. Make my own dairy-free milk

Cheaper, healthier and with far less packaging than cow's milk, making up my own Sunflower Seed Milk is much easier than I thought it would be (click here for the original post). I prefer its taste and texture in our daily porridge too. We used to get through 5-6 tetrapaks of milk each week, now there are usually three or fewer in the recycling and we pay pennies a litre for Sunflower Seed Milk rather than close to £1 a litre for the dairy equivalent. YES and No! I now exclusively use dairy-free for breakfasts and baking so the only dairy milk we now buy is for Dave's coffee. I stopped making my own Sunflower Seed Milk while caravanning over the winter because it seemed it would need more space than we had available. However, I can buy Sunflower Seeds loose by weight in France (ie totally packaging free!) so I plan to restart milk making as soon as we're back there. In the meantime Waitrose today had soya in Tetrapaks cheaper than dairy - first time I've seen that!


4. Don't buy if I can bake

Making two batches of milk each week left me with lots of sunflower seed pulp which it seemed far too wasteful to compost. I googled recipes and ended up baking Oat And Date Cookies. Making my own crackers wasn't as successful - more practice is needed. However I enjoyed baking my own wholemeal bread again - it's tastier than plastic-bagged commercial loaves and cheaper than artisan baked! YES! This habit has taken off so I now bake all my own bread, biscuits and savoury crackers or oatcakes. English style wholemeal bread isn't the best option in a hot place with limited freezer space, so I've taught myself to make delicious roti, phulka and pita breads instead.

5. Drink loose leaf tea

Did you know most tea bags contain plastic? I was shocked to find out (on Treading My Own Path here)! The plastic apparently strengthens the paper tea bags and even super-ethical brands like Clipper use it. I'm not comfortable with the idea of soaking plastic in hot water every time I make tea so looked for loose leaf. YES! I drink loose leaf Earl Grey tea and like the Twinings one in tins with a foil seal. I have fruit teas in teabags and buy Elephant brand which I believe (other than the outer cellophane) are completely plastic free.



6. Ditch individually wrapped sweets

This was a surprise Plastic Free benefit! I walk a lot in town rather than taking the car, but always found it hard to resist treating myself on the way. I've got to climb that steep hill, let's have a mini Thornton's bag to help! However, it turns my plastic-refusing willpower is 100 times stronger than my sugar-refusing willpower. YES! Except for boiled sweets for car journeys. When I find the unwrapped tins or car sweets I get those, but they're not always easy to get hold of.

7. Make my own laundry powder

We started this back in September last year (click here for the original post). The soap bars and soda were wrapped in plastic outers, but I am still using that first £2 batch of ingredients! It will easily last through September this year so that will be over a year's worth of clean laundry for £2. I don't need to add additional fabric softener and the powder is good for both machine and hand washing of clothes. YES! I made up another batch this winter just gone. The large bar of Spanish laundry soap was wrapped in cellophane, but that was all. We are using up a plastic bottle of laundry liquid that the previous owners left behind in our French static caravan. Once that's gone, it will be back to just the handmade powder.


8. Mix my own toothpaste

This was a completely new experiment for Plastic Free July 2017 and I am thrilled with its success (click here for the original post). The paste does slowly separate to leave a glycerine layer on the top so the jar needs a stir up a couple of times a week. Otherwise I am very happy with how it cleans my teeth, my gums are no longer red and there is no more bleeding when I brush. YES! Still exclusively using my own toothpaste, plus I now have SaveSomeGreen bamboo toothbrushes and I make my own mouthwash too (1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 3 drops peppermint oil, 1 drop clove oil. Place all into a clean jam jar and almost fill with water. Screw jar lid on tightly and shake until the bicarb dissolves)


9. Buy unpackaged whenever possible

I left this seemingly obvious point until near the end because it is actually the most difficult to consider. Where should I draw my line? I crocheted cotton produce bags and now try to avoid plastic-packed fruit and veg even to the point of substitutions or walking to a different shop if necessary. I now have a reusable cotton sanitary pad to back up my Mooncup so don't need plastic-packed disposables any more.
I made my own Lentil 'Pate' and Chickpea Tofu, both thereby avoiding their equivalents' plastic packets. However I could not find entirely plastic-free meat, fish or cheese in Torquay. My dilemma is whether to settle for the plastic reduction I can get or avoid these foods altogether - effectively becoming mostly vegan. Food for thought. YES and No! I have become pretty much vegetarian and am 'working towards' vegan, however this is more because, now I am heading into the menopause, I have found that my body hardly wants meat any more to the degree that I often feel nauseous in the supermarket meat aisle or too close to the fish counter. I am also very aware of the horrors of factory farming and how widespread this practice is across the UK and other European countries. So I can buy lots of lovely plastic-free veggies (especially in France and Spain) and even buy loose or card-boxed chickpeas, lentils etc. Homemade hummous is far nicer than the bought stuff and fortunately I love cooking all my meals from scratch. Cheese is my downfall though as even vegan cheese, which I like, is still plastic packaged. Maybe it's time to get creative with cashews!

10. Don't slide back

Several of the above habits are more long-winded than their plastic covered alternatives or they require preparation so I think the toughest part of Plastic Free July for me is actually going to be August! In the same way as I automatically carry a cotton shopping bag rolled up in my handbag because I don't want to pay 5p for a plastic carrier, I now need to keep reinforcing these plastic free habits until they are ingrained. Fortunately I enjoy making and baking so setting aside time to knead dough isn't a problem, but remembering that I need to do so at least three hours before I want to eat the bread will require organisation! YES! Overall I am very happy with how many of these habits I have kept going all year. I am also aware of subtle changes in that I now automatically look for the plastic-free choice first. I was delighted to see the bulk purchase rack of foods like oats, rice and lentils is standard in French Intermarche supermarkets. They also sell the majority of their fruit and veg loose with paper bags available for customers, not plastic. We reuse each paper bag until it disintegrates! Having been told last year, when I complained to British sugar companies, that brown sugar Has to be packaged in plastic to stop it clumping, Intermarche sells their in card boxes or by weight from the bulk purchase rack! 

So a good plastic-free year and I am looking forward to adding, say, another five plastic free habits this July. One of the wisest words of advice I got last year was to not try and totally cut out plastic overnight as it's very disheartening to realise how difficult that is. I've found it's getting easier as I become more accustomed to looking for alternatives.


Sunday 1 July 2018

My Week in Review to the 1st July

Stop Press!! Harry Whitewolf is offering All his books for free on Amazon from the 27th June to the 1st July 2018. That means the last day is today so do all rush at once! Click the pics to read my reviews of these three:



I am linking up with The Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly at The Caffeinated Reviewer.
And in bookish news, I am linking up again with Book Photo Sundays over at Ronyell's Rabbit Ears Book Blog.


This photo of me reading in my cosy Bailey caravan was taken on a chilly November evening in Portugal back in 2013. We're wondering whether we might return to Portugal this winter instead of staying in Spain. This pic was first on A Month In Books - November 2013.


In reality when today's post publishes itself I shall be boarding a ferry back to the UK so my actual sharing around of links will happen much later in the day. Unless there's a problem with the boarding or, indeed, with the ferry of course in which case who knows?! I do have to get up unwelcomely early for me so fingers crossed that waking up actually happens!


Last weekend we treated ourselves to a day trip to La Rochelle, meeting up there with one of Dave's daughters who had flown out for the town's Documentary Festival. I remember cartoon scenes in my school French textbook being set in La Rochelle and - I don't know why - had always imagined it as some drab industrial port town. Like Newhaven I guess! It's not! We saw historic buildings and walked a little of the old walls, enjoyed artisan ice cream, wondered why the green lighthouse was in the midst of a row of houses quite some distance from the water, and admired a working carousel that dated back to 1900. I loved that the black lines on apparently half-timbered buildings are, on closer inspection, made of slate tiles! The pizzas in Via Roma are great too. I'd happily go back to La Rochelle for a longer visit, perhaps on a slightly cooler day.





On my blogs this week:
My Week in Review to the 24th June
Artisan Rainbow - Aprons
State Of The ARC - June 2018
50/50 Friday - Favourite/Least Favourite Genre
A Month In Books - June 2018

Swallowtail by Sheri Meshal
The Fear Of Being Eaten by Ronald J Wichers + #Giveaway
Manipulated Lives by H A Leuschel
The Occasional Virgin by Hanan Al-Shaykh
The Pumpkin Patch by Sandi Smith + #Giveaway
Galaxies And Oceans by N. R. Walker + #Giveaway + Excerpt
The Shape Of The Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vasquez


Around the blogosphere:
Avalinah's Books has a great review of The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Chuckles features Night In The Lonesome October on her Books From The Backlog
Greg's Book Haven resurrects Comic Of The Week looking Excalibur Visionaries Volume 1

Have a great week!