Title: Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera Writer: Various edited by Jeanette Winterson Publishing House: Riverrun Date of Publication: April 18th 2019 (first published January 1st 2009) Rating: 4 stars ‘’When we read, when we listen to music, when we immerse ourselves in the flow of an opera, we go underneath the surface of life….
Month: June 2020
Circe
Title: Circe Writer: Madeline Miller Publishing House: Bloomsbury Publishing UK Date of Publication: April 19th 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.’’ Greek Mythology has an…
Hauntings
Title: Hauntings Writer: Edited by Time – Life Books Publishing House: Time – Life Books Date of Publication: January 1st 1989 Rating: 5 stars What is a ghost? A tormented soul that has left unfinished business on the world of the living? A soul who cannot find rest because of great wrath, pain, and a…
Nasla’s Dream
Title: Nasla’s Dream Writer: Cécile Roumiguière, illustrated by Simone Rea Publishing House: Princeton Architectural Press Date of Publication:September 15th 2020 Rating: 5 stars ”Nasla wants to sing, but at night, you do not sing. At night, you sleep. But what if the yellow dot grows and grows? What if it becomes big enough to swallow…
The Rain Heron
Title: The Rain Heron Writer: Robbie Arnott Publishing House: Atlantic Books Date of Publication: July 2nd 2020 Rating: 5 stars ”But more curious than this was what they saw next: a huge heron, the colour of rain, suddenly emerging from the flood in a fast, steep flight, leaving not even a ripple on the water…
Παραμύθια από το Περού
Title: Παραμύθια από το Περού Writer: Translated by Γιώργος Γούτας Publishing House: Aπόπειρα Date of Publication: Σεπτέμβριος 2007 Rating: 5 stars * My review in English is hiding below * ‘’Λένε ακόμα πως σαν κάποιος διαβεί τη νύχτα από τα περίχωρα της αινιγματικής Κορικότσα, ακούει κραυγές ανθρώπων, γαβγίσματα σκυλιών, μέχρι και κελαηδίσματα πουλιών, που φαίνεται…
If You Were Night
Title: If You Were Night Writer: Mượn Thị Văn , illustrated by Kelly Pousette Publishing House: Kids Can Press Date of Publication: September 1st 2020 Rating: 5 stars ‘’If you saw the moon Tiptoe past your window, What would you do? Would you nestle under the covers Or step outside, too?’’ There is something mysterious and…
The Mercies
Title: The Mercies Writer: Kiran Millwood Hargrave Publishing House: Picador Date of Publication: February 6th 2020 Rating: 4 stars ”The storm comes in like a finger snap. That’s how they’ll speak in the months and years after, when it stops being only an ache behind their eyes and crushing at the base of their throats….
Wilma Rudolph
(Little People, Big Dreams) Title: Wilma Rudolph (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara, illustrated by Amelia Flower Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: June 4th 2019 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this…
At Bertram’s Hotel
Title: At Bertram’s Hotel Writer: Agatha Christie Publishing House: Harper Date of Publication: 2002 (first published 1965)\ Rating: 5 stars ‘’The children of Lucifer are often beautiful.’’ Hotels are fascinating places. Well, they can be quite a nightmare if you’re careless while booking or if the residents are a bunch of barbarians (which is often…
Things We Say In The Dark
Title: Things We Say In The Dark Writer: Kirsty Logan Publishing House: Harvill Secker Date of Publication: October 3rd 2019 Rating: 5 stars ‘’A house is family. A house is history. A house is a body. One subject that comes up again and again in horror, both new and classic, is houses. Haunted houses, home…
The Vanishing
Title: The Vanishing Writer: Sophia Tobin Publishing House: Simon Schuster UK Date of Publication: June 5th 2018 (first published January 12th 2017) Rating: 4 stars ” Everything was still; no rain, only the touch of wind as I walked, with the occasional call of birds in the desolation. I looked at the reddish bracken; the…
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