The Boy, The Bird and The Coffin Maker by Matilda Woods You can read my review by clicking on this link HERE
Posted in April 2017 …
The Bookshelf (April 2017)
Books reviewed this month: The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Boy, The Bird and The Coffin Maker by Matilda Woods Stargazing For Beginners by Jenny McLachlan Also check out: Death (and sex) in Mexico by Marcus Sedgwick #SaintDeath What writing STARGAZING FOR BEGINNERS taught me by Jenny McLachlan
Things I have learnt writing The Inventory Series by Andy Briggs
Dev and his friends are back with more mind-bending tech in this third installment of the Inventory series. The World Consortium is recruiting more agents to defend the most advanced technology the world isn’t ready for, and it’s up to Dev, Lottie and Mase to train them up for action. But will they be ready … Continue reading
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
There are some places you would not want to go. Even if I told you that we have oceans filled with sea turtles and dolphins, or forests lush with parrots that call through air thick with warmth… Nobody comes here because they want to. The island of no return. Ami lives with her mother on … Continue reading
Top Ten Things That Will Make Me Instantly NOT Want To Read A Book
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. Bad research Unless you’re inventing your own world check that the locations and facts you quote are correct. The internet is a great help but it’s always good to use more than one source. Seriously sometimes I just want to bang … Continue reading
The Boy, The Bird and The Coffin Maker by Matilda Woods
. Alberto lives alone in the town of Allora where fish fly out of the sea and everyone knows everybody’s business. There he makes coffins for the great and small, but being the only coffin maker in town can be lonely. That is until a little boy and a magical bird enter his life and … Continue reading
Stargazing For Beginners by Jenny McLachlan
Science geek Meg is left to look after her little sister for ten days after her free-spirited mum leaves suddenly to follow up yet another of her Big Important Causes. But while Meg may understand how the universe was formed, baby Elsa is a complete mystery to her. And Mum’s disappearance has come at the … Continue reading
Top Ten Things That Will Make Me Instantly Want To Read A Book
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. To be honest there was very few things I could think of that would instantly make me want a book. There are too many wonderful books out there. The list is more a mix of the things that make it very … Continue reading
Pretty or Fierce or Both? by Kieran Scott #PrettyFierce
KIERAN SCOTT is the author of several acclaimed young adult novels, including the Non-Blonde Cheerleader trilogy, the He’s So/She’s So trilogy, and Geek Magnet. She also wrote the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Private and Privilege series under the pen name Kate Brian. She is a senior editor at Disney/Hyperion and resides in … Continue reading
The Dead Inside #BlogTour
Cyndy Etler is the author of The Dead Inside, a young adult memoir about the sixteen months she spent as a teen in notorious “tough love” program Straight Inc. At 13, Cyndy was homeless. At 14, she was locked up. At 15, she was suicidal. At 30, she was teaching tough teens at an alternative school. Today … Continue reading
