Angelic Paranoia

What I Just Finished Reading The Devil Rides Out by Paul O'Grady. This starts when he's 17 and stops just as he's getting into drag. The ending felt a lot like he'd just reached his word count and stopped, so came as a bit of a surprise. It was really interesting though. Childhood's End by... Continue reading

Last night I realised that I have rabbit socks and I forgot to include them in the count! They are number 108. What I Just Finished Reading The Surplus Girls by Polly Heron. This was a bit of a random pick from the library's choices for International Women's Day. It's set in the early 1920s... Continue reading

What I Just Finished Reading Quantum Leap: Pulitzer by L Elizabeth Storm. The Quantum Leap podcast said they were going to do this book next, so I re-read it. I remembered enough to know it was good, and it was good. It reminded me that everything I know about the Vietnam War I know from... Continue reading

In 2022 my book goal was to read more books than I acquired. Which would then get my to read pile down a bit. I read 9 more books than I acquired. Which is good and I achieved my goal. It just didn't get my to read pile down by much... So my 2023 book... Continue reading

What I Just Finished Reading Still Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton. I persevered with the footnotes, although they drove me slightly mad. And made it impossible to tell how far I was through the book. It was just so interesting though, to see all his thoughts 20 years ago through the lens of him... Continue reading

What I Just Finished Reading The Wonder by Emma Donoghue. I wrote about this book last week, but it did have a satisfying ending and reason why the girl wasn't eating. Interestingly, it was written thinking about the 'fasting girls' in Ireland that were documented around that time Quantum Leap: Random Measures by Ashley McConnell.... Continue reading

A Kobo Black Friday special, where this year I bought three books (for 99pm each) and am actually reading them. What I Just Finished Reading No Ballet Shoes in Syria by Catherine Bruton. This sounded like it was going to be like a Sadlers Wells books, but set in the present day with a Syrian... Continue reading

What I Just Finished Reading [book_data title="Contacts" author="Mark Watson"] I was browsing Kobo and this was 99p, so I thought why not. I knew nothing about it, but I do know that Mark Watson is funny. This book was not funny. It starts with a man sending a text to all his contacts saying he's... Continue reading

I thought last post it could do with some tarting up, so I wrote a WordPress plugin that adds a link to the book on OpenLibrary and a cover, if it finds the book. What I Just Finished Reading [book_data title="Fiddler Fair" author="Mercedes Lackey"] This is another book of short stories, but a lot thinner.... Continue reading

Because I've been tracking how many books I've read and acquired this year I can see that I've read 19 so far. Which seems like a small number. I've just taken it as read that reading a book a week on average is easy. But I got out of the habit of reading (and everything... Continue reading