Book themes for Hogmanay / New Year’s Eve / Watch Night / St. Sylvester’s Day: a book about starting over, rebuilding, new beginnings, etc. –OR– Read anything set in medieval times. –OR– A book about the papacy –OR– where miracles of any sort are performed (the unexplainable - but good - kind). We...
If you're at all interested in those phrases every language has that don't translate exactly, like "the buck stops here" or one of my personal favourites: "as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs" this might be a book you'd enjoy. It's a glossary, of sorts, categorising dif...
bookshelves: published-2012, mystery-thriller, medieval5c-16c, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, series, autumn-2013, author-love Read from September 11 to 12, 2013 "rosado> walkies!Susanna GregoryKaren MaitlandPhilip GoodenIan MorsonBernard KnightEy-up! This looks scrumptious4* The Tainted Rel...
rosado> walkies!Susanna GregoryKaren MaitlandPhilip GoodenIan MorsonBernard KnightEy-up! This looks scrumptious4* The Tainted Relic4* The Sword of Shame3* House of Shadows3* The Lost Prophecies2* King Arthur's Bones#6 MISSING FILE oh noes!3* Hill of Bones(less)3* The First Murder
Opening: Geraint watched the lizard basking in the sun on the tiled floor.#21 TBR Busting 2013Had rather run out of steam on this series but lo! and behold Maitland writes a segment, and I can't let that go unsavoured...They keep running up that hill!Prologue by Philip Gooden - excellent Arthurian ...
A book with all those phases in that you that you know, but are never sure where they came from. This cover a number of countries phrases, not just the UK and US. Some of them are very similar to phrases and naturally can be quite rude, either implied or innuendo.As a fan of language books, this was...
As a classic of action/adventure I really enjoyed this novel. However the accompanying short stories were less to my appreciation as they were in no means memorable. The prose of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is magnificent although I must admit I prefer the style he adopts for his Sherlock Holmes stories....
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