Category Archives: Book Reviews

This nineteenth century book follows the life of a poor young woman named Tess Durbeyfield whose family discover that they are actually related to the noble d’Urberville family. You’d then think that this would be a story about a poor … Continue reading →

An Ecobardic Manifesto is a pamphlet written by Fire Springs (Anthony Nanson, Kevin Manwaring, Kirsty Hartsiotis, David Metcalfe and Richard Selby) in which they lay out the role that they think storytelling should play in the modern world. It’s very … Continue reading →

This is one of those short books which you can very easily read in one sitting. Every page has a picture of some unhappy looking character along with a small depressing sentence. The front cover is a typical example of … Continue reading →

This is J. R. R. Tolkien’s first published novel to be set in the vast fantastical world of Middle Earth. The story follows the adventures of a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins who one day finds himself involved in a quest … Continue reading →

This book tells the story of Andrea (or Andy) and what she goes through after her parents get divorced and move in with different people. The whole thing is written in the first person, from Andy’s perspective, and she tells … Continue reading →

I have a feeling that readers over the age of ten may feel reluctant to try out an oversized picture book with only a few short, easy to read sentences (unless they have kids to read to). However, I think … Continue reading →

It’s quite hard to explain what this book is, on the one hand it’s a biography of a woman named Suzie Spitzer, but on the other it’s an autobiography of Ann Chadwick. I suppose the best way to describe it, … Continue reading →

Don Quixote, often called the first modern novel, is something that should really be looked at as two separate novels, rather than one. Both novels are always published together these days and, as such, I will review them together, but … Continue reading →

Just to clarify, this entry is another book review. It doesn’t actually say clearly who wrote it, so I decided to avoid putting an author’s name in the title. I was lucky enough to get this book for free, but … Continue reading →