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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Read for nomadreader’s Read-along. Didn’t do much “along”, but at least managed the reading part! I first read To Kill a Mockingbird almost 10 years ago, on pre-blogging times. I remember turning to...
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March in Comics
La fièvre d’Urbicande (Les Cités obscures, 2) by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters Les Cités obscures or Cities of the Fantastic is one of my favorite comics series. I’ve spoken about them before...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez #Diversiverse
There’s not much I can say about this book that hasn’t been said 1.000 times before, so just some quick thoughts for posterity: I went into One Hundred Years of Solitude with some fear, because it has...
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Lumberjanes #1 by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen
Finally got my hands on Lumberjanes because I’m nothing if not a slave to your recommendations. I get the love: the art is fresh, the girl-power theme is amazing, it’s laugh-out-loud funny at times....
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A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
When this one started making the rounds and seducing everyone it touched, it seemed so much up my alley I was afraid to start if for fear of disappointment. In the end, although I’m not completely...
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Pomfret Towers by Angela Thirkell #1938Club
Simon and Kaggsy started a Club where bloggers review books published in the same year during the same week. I read Pablo Neruda’s 20 Love Poems and a Desperate Love Song for the 1924 Club last year...
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The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas – a rant
If you ask any Portuguese kid of the 80s about their favorite cartoons, there’s a high probability many will say either Dartacão or D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers (manga version). Chances are they...
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‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma
My first-ever book set in Trinidad and one of the few from the Caribbeans. Right now can only think of Wide Sargasso Sea and (partially) Captain Blood. Don’t be fooled by the covers, that indicate a...
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The New and Improved Romie Futch by Julia Elliott
The enthusiasm in Mercedes’s video was so contagious that I immediately got this in audio. It’s a weird one. I kept thinking about poetry slams, where aspiring poets declaim angry poetry in almost full...
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
One of my favorite spoof accounts A couple of weeks ago there was a pub quiz round on the six wives of Henry VIII and it made me finally pick up this biography by Antonia Fraser, that was lingering on...
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