Cassie (Cassandra) and Mary Beth are good friends, the kind with benefits. But when Mary Beth asks Cassie to come along to meet her new boyfriend Terry and watch him do a little magic, Cassie scoffs. She doesn’t believe in magic. At least, not until it smacks her upside the face. Pretty soon she is ...
Once upon a time, all the dragons were drab, grey colors. But one young, small dragon got the idea into his head one day that dragons should be all sorts of colors too, just like the beautiful world around them.So starts our story. This little entrepreneurial dragon captured colors and offered to ma...
I won this book as a part of the Goodreads First Reads scheme. On first glance this is a beautifully presented novel and before reading I expected a Robinson Crusoe style storyline, but instead I was pleasantly surprised. I did enjoy this book and I found that Rebecca Hunt certainly has a talent for...
Dein ständiger Begleiter Was für ein außergewöhnliches Buch. Nachdem ich eben die letzten Zeilen gelesen habe, konnte ich meine Gefühle gar nicht so recht einordnen. Es war ein trauriges und schönes Ende zugleich. Welche Beschreibung absolut passend zum gesamten Roman ist. Alles beginnt damit, das...
Tricky book to evaluate impartially and I'm probably being a little hard on it.
When I first saw this book, I thought "ok...light read", but didn't expect much more out of it. This book is goofy and hilarious! I don't know if that is what the author was shooting for, but my first reaction was that she had to be doing halucinogens while writing this book. An aging Winston Church...
ARC on the way.
ARC on the way.
Books at bedtime Radio 4Blurb - Set across five days in July 1964 we follow the bizarrely intertwined lives of Sir Winston Churchill, Esther Hammerhans and the unwelcome visitor they both share.Abridged and produced by Jill Waters A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4.
"You are a dark star in the constellation which forms me. And to fight against you is to try and fight the stars in the enternal firmament." so says churchill to black pat, the huge, black dog that exemplifies his depression...and who becomes a temporary lodger of esther, a young widow...a great p...