I’m in book-highlighting heaven with Clippings.io As a voracious reader of ebooks, I’ve found immense value in highlighting passages of interest when I’m reading. Highlighting passages allows me to collect bits of information that I want to reflect on, explore […]
Review contains minor spoilers. I’ve got to admit, to me the premise of Extracted sounded both high-concept and cheesy at the same time. Three people; a world war two commando, a diplomatic protection officer, and an insurance investigator in witness […]
I’ve been reading Ian Robb Wright since around 2015 when I downloaded a copy of Seasick for free from Amazon. I really enjoyed that one and went on to read Final Winter which I also enjoyed and Ian Robb Wright’s […]
I purchased 10% Happier 8 years ago. It’s been sitting in my Kindle collection all this time. But as part of 2024’s drive to finish books I’ve started, I delved into it In essence, 10% Happier is a part memoir […]
Deep Country started off really well and I loved hearing about the set up of the cottage and the whole premise of living a simple, solitary life in the Welsh hills. It’s admirable how passionate the author is about wildlife, […]
from Elsewhere by Dean Koontz
Amity, an 11 year-old girl and her father Jeffy live in Suavidad Beach, California. Michelle, Amity’s mother walked out on them 7 years ago and never returned. Whilst the father-daughter relationship is extremely close, they are both left with a […]
I love a bit of armchair travel, and after reading an article about ex-paratrooper Chris Lewis and his walk around the UK, I was intrigued to find out more. In the depths of depression, in 2018 Chris set out to […]
I just abandoned The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker. Minor spoilers. I enjoyed the Hellraiser movies in my late teens. The first one was okay, but it was Hellraiser 2: Hellbound, and Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth that I got […]
I’ve been using an e-reader for over a decade now, and using an actual Kindle for around 7 of those years. In that time, my book collection has grown a lot. It came to me yesterday that there are two […]
My first time reading Douglas Clegg. Initially drawing me in with a child being rescued/kidnapped from a cult, the story soon became laborious in its use of extended flashbacks to provide the bulk of the story. Despite the story being […]
I just finished The Taking by Dean Koontz. I first read Koontz nearly a decade ago with Phantoms. I’ve since read a handful after picking up quite a good chunk of his back catalogue for 99p each on Kindle and […]
I used to have so much time to read. One year I read a total of 63 books (but I wish I’d had the note-taking habit back then that I do now). But in recent years, this has declined considerably […]
NASA have lost contact with their New Horizons satellite somewhere near Pluto. A government agent is tasked with investigating a deeply disturbing massacre at the home of a doomsday cult. A mysterious woman unconstrained by time has visited the past, […]
Once I picked up The Stranger in the Woods, I just couldn’t put it down. The true life tale of Christopher Knight, I man who went into the Maine woods and didn’t come back — untraceable for over 25 years. […]
Police deputy David Wolf has returned home to Colorado. But not only is he returning with the body of his dead brother, the Sheriff’s job he’s coveted for so long is given to Wolf’s tyrannical nemesis. Refusing another job offer […]
Apartment 16 in the posh London Barrington House has been vacant for over 50 years, but the sounds from within suggest otherwise. When Apryl inherits her late, great aunt’s apartment in the same building, she begins to discover the truth […]
In the week preceding a potential promotion, Colorado deputy sergeant David Wolf is informed of his brother’s apparent suicide in his apartment in Italy. With tension rising between him and his competitor for the Sheriff’s position, Wolf sets off for […]
Two sisters raised in a primitive log cabin to protect them from the madness of the outside world await the return of their mother who left two months ago with their youngest sister to seek medical help. With food supplies […]
Julia, a young Californian girl is approaching her 12th birthday when the world’s rotation begins to slow. With days and nights growing longer and longer this becomes known as The Slowing. I don’t know what I was expecting with The […]
