Category Archives: Book Reviews

I love stories that are set in slightly spooky old estates out in the moors, and The Secret Garden is a perfect example of that kind of book. It starts out in India, but I won’t spoil exactly what happens, … Continue reading →

Set in an abandoned old castle, I Capture the Castle is the story of two sisters (Cassandra and Rose), their father, Mortmain, a struggling writer, his wife, Topaz, a nude model, and their servant, a young man named Stephen. Though … Continue reading →

Aesop’s Fables are stories that are such cornerstones of our culture – small tales that have gone so far as to become part of our everyday language. I always find myself saying things like “slow and steady wins the race” … Continue reading →

After Clara Oswald discovers a photo of the Twelfth, Eleventh, and Tenth Doctors together, she takes steps to try and stop them from ever meeting, fearing that their coming together would be the catalyst of a terrible disaster. In the … Continue reading →

Gosh, this was a bizarre book (and not in a good way). In it, a guy named William Ward, a man set to take over his family’s large brewery business, discovers that his family has been at the heart of … Continue reading →

The eleventh of the Doctor Who New Adventures novels is actually a fairly standard Doctor Who storyline. This is a little unusual for this line of books, which tended to try and experiment more and push the boundaries of what … Continue reading →

The third book in the Little House series (the one that would lend its name to the 1970s TV adaptation and ultimately become the name that most people use to refer to the series as a whole), returns to the … Continue reading →

I have always been drawn to adventures about pirates on the high seas, and so it was only a matter of time before I got around to reading On Stranger Tides (the book that inspired the fourth Pirates of the … Continue reading →

This is the first novel in the multi-part Wheel of Time series. It’s set in a world where time is circular (a wheel) and all the people in the world are in a constant cycle of death and reincarnation, doomed … Continue reading →

This is just the kind of fantasy that I love. Many people have probably heard of the popular anime adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle, but it’s also a fantastic book, and I definitely recommend it as a different, but equally … Continue reading →