Category: Book Report

Book Report: Cart and Cwidder

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Your Humble Blogger had enjoyed Cart and Cwidder when it was a Bedtime Book some years ago. I had picked it up for a reread at some point but failed to get into it, so I opened it with some…

Book Report: Maskerade

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Boy, I really don’t have anything at all to say about Maskerade. Or about Terry Pratchett generally. Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,-Vardibidian….

Book Report: Justice Hall

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YHB went through Justice Hall again. What to say about it this time… Mostly that there is little in life that is better than reading a novel whilst mostly immersed in a warm bath. Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus, -Vardibidian….

Book Report: Peter Pan in Scarlet

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Your Humble Blogger did not read Peter Pan in Scarlet under ideal conditions. Well, and the conditions at the beginning were terrific: it was a Bedtime Book, read aloud, a chapter a night, with YHB and the Best Reader alternating…

Book Report: The Shootist

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The spine of The Shootist caught YHB’s eye on the library shelf, mostly because of the movie, of which I had fond memory. For those Gentle Readers who don’t remember or didn’t see the movie, and don’t mind the plot…

Book Report: Predator’s Gold

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A couple of months ago (when I was young) I wrote that I found Mortal Engines very put-down-able, in the sense that I kept putting it down and not getting to it for a day or three. I enjoyed it,…

Book Report: Soon I will be Invincible

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I was surprised to see that Soon I will be Invincible got such positive reviews. I had picked it up from the library shelf a few times, and put it down again, and actually got it out once and returned…