The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins In this post apocalyptic world two children from each area are sent to fight for their lives as ‘tribute’ in the hunger games. Katniss takes the place of her younger sister and enters the games. Here she must fight and kill in order to return home and have the [...]
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Two magicians have played a game for decades, each providing a player. This time the game arena is a circus. This is not an ordinary circus, it opens when the sun goes down and closes at dawn – it can only be the circus of dreams. The story conjured [...]
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor Delightful concept, a real change from the normal ideas of angels. I loved this book, the main character Karou, has been raised by seeming monsters – chimera – and lives in two worlds. In our world she is a art student but in the strange shop run [...]
Moloka’i by Alan Bennert I was given this book to read by the book club I had just joined. It’s not something I would have picked off the shelf, a story about a leper colony is not something I expected to like being a bit squeamish about leprosy. I have seen a lot of pictures [...]
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare I saw my first Cassandra Clare novel at the Auckland Readers and Writers Festival where I attended the Fantasy talk. Having never heard of her I was amazed to see a whole group of teen girls who queued up to have their books signed. They were obviously big fans. They [...]
While I was sick during the school holidays I read all of the Sookie Stackhouse stories starting with the True Blood Omnibus of Dead Until Dark, Living Dead In Dallas and Club Dead by Charlaine Harris. Now I love the HBO series True Blood (although I liked the first and third were better than the [...]
The Book of Secrets reveals hundreds of clandestine, covert, surreptitious, furtive, hush-hush, and taboo pop-cultural and historical curiosities, from government cover-ups to marketing tricks to Colonel Sander’s secret recipe. You can get it here
The Skin Map by Stephen Lawhead Ley lines, thunderstorms, a great-grandfather appearing in a alley are the ingredients for a treasure quest chasing a map tattooed on human skin through a world of intersecting realities and alternative past and futures. However once the Skin Map is found the quest for the ultimate prize, hidden within [...]
When trying to portray child poverty photographer James Mollison decided to photograph where the children slept and let that speak of their situation rather than forlorn faces of starving children. Where Children Sleep is the new book out by Mollison poses the children against a plain white backdrop adjacent to a photograph of their bedroom. [...]
I’ve been snowboarding and out of internet range for a while. Now I’m back I have a fever so please stay with me – I’ll be back blogging next week when I’m better. On the up side I have read a lot of books, including the complete Sookie Stackhouse series. Lots of reviews to come [...]
