Book Review: Room
Jack is five. He lives in a single, locked room with his Ma. Room is a fascinating book by Emma Donoghue. ‘Today I’m five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in...
View ArticleBook Review: Winter Holiday
Winter Holiday is the fourth novel in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome*. *The third book, Peter Duck, is one of the metafictional books of the series because it is a story created by...
View ArticleBook Review: Coot Club
Coot Club is the fifth novel in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. There are 12 books in the series in total. The book is about Dick and Dorothea, who visit the Norfolk Broads during...
View ArticleBook Review: Intraterrestrial by Nicholas Conley
This is a book review for Rosie’s Book Review Team. Intraterrestrial is about Adam Helios, a bullied teenager who hears a voice claiming to come from the stars and fears he’s going mad. Following a...
View ArticleBook Review: How To Train Your Dragon
Image via RogerEbert.com Recently, I was introduced to How To Train Your Dragon, the animated fantasy film, and I loved it. I then watched the sequel, How To Train Your Dragon 2 (creative) and I loved...
View ArticleBook Review: The Big Over Easy
The Big Over Easy is the first in Jasper Fforde’s Nursery Crime series. I previously reviewed The Eyre Affair, the first in Fforde’s Thursday Next series about a literary detective. The Big Over Easy...
View ArticleBook Review: Pigeon Post
Pigeon Post is the sixth novel in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. There are 12 books in the series in total. Pigeon Post, unlike its predecessor Coot Club, is set once again in the...
View ArticleBook Review: The Wizard of Oz
Image via Parabola Magazine. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is a fun children’s book about Dorothy, a young girl swept away to the magical land of Oz by a cyclone. Dorothy meets and befriends the...
View ArticleBook Review: We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea
‘Nobody had meant to go to sea, but here they were, and an unknown land ahead of them’ We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea is the seventh novel in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. There are...
View ArticleBook Review: Secret Water
Secret Water is the eighth novel in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. There are 12 books in the series in total. Secret Water focuses on just the Walker children, as they are...
View ArticleReading 7 Books in 7 Days
Hello, my name is Judith! Welcome to my blog, ReadandReview. I challenged myself to read 7 books in 7 days. Why? Well, first of all, it’s something to do! I am not working currently and, because of the...
View ArticleBook Review: The Big Six by Arthur Ransome
Hello, my name is Judith! Welcome to my blog, ReadandReview. It’s been a year since I read and reviewed any books from Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series, so I’ve decided it’s finally time to...
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