The Grateful Book Dragon

This blog post does exactly what it says on the tin. It's my week in books and hopefully every week I will be productive enough in my reading life to be able to make a post like this.  I will share a quick recap of what I've been reading each week, what I rated it along with a short to the piont line or two on each offering, as let's face it, it just isn't practical to do an in-depth review of every single book. I will continue to write reviews for certain books but this will be for all the others.  The Betrayals by Bridget Collins Read The Binding So Was Intrigued. Hated the Main Carachter. Loved The concept. Kept my Attention Throughout. Available on Librarys Borrowbox App. 4/5 Quantum Theory A Graphic Guide by J.P.McEvoy & Oscar Zarate As Simple An Explanation As You Can Get Of One Of The Most Complex and Fascinating Scientific Topics. Entertaining Diagrams. An Interesting & Entertaining Way To Discover More About Something I Had Littl...

I feel totally underquailfied to adquatetly critique this book. It's unlike anything I have ever read. It has gothic undertones. It is part poetry, part essay, part fiction, part biography, part unsolved mystery. It is undoubtedly a female story. It is both the past and the present.  A Ghost In The Throat is about a woman's obsession with a poem written in 1700s by Eibhlín Dubh, a keening for her murdered husband Art who met a horrific end. Eibhlín in her grief drinks handfuls of his blood and composes what has been described as the greatest poem ever written in the 18th and 19th Century in Ireland or Britain.  The poem is written in Irish and has been translated many times by many different people but as the author points out it loses something of Eibhlín Dubhs voice when translated A Ghost In The Throat is predominantly about motherhood, grief and the erasure of the female contribution from our history. How is it that the poet of the greatest poem of ...

Given the name of this blog it seems only fitting that my first review would be a book about Dragons. Burn is the first Patrick Ness book I have ever read and I'm not sure why as I am familiar with his work having seen and been impressed by the film Adaptation of A Monster Calls and being a Whovian  (Fan of Doctor Who) Im also very aware that Patrick  Ness wrote Class which was an amazing Doctor Who spinoff that got prematurely and very unfairly cancelled after only one season. It was essentially a Firefly situation in my opinion. I'm still not over it. There was so much left unexplored and Katherine Kelly's carachter Andrea Quill was so intriguing not to mention an absolute badass. Burn much like Doctor Who deals with " Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff  " in that the story deals with the theory or in this case reality of quantum realms or at least the "many world's" theorum anyhow. I found this aspect of the book fa...

Introductions are always awkward in my experience so I'll get right to it. I like to think of myself as a book dragon rather than a worm because a worm to me is too petite a way to describe my appetite for books. My tastes are broad. Much like with food I do not limit myself to one type of book. Life in my opinion would be very dull if I limited myself to experiencing only one thing. To me it would be akin to eating the same meal for the rest of your life. I do have my favourites of course like anyone else but I like to push myself beyond my comfort zone when it comes to books and I've found online bookclubs to be just ticket when it comes to this. Much like a dragon I hoard books like a dragon hoards gold. Except unlike some of my fellow bibliophiles I do not sit on my hoard for very long as I feel uneasy in myself if I do not devour them as quickly as possible. I'm greedy when it comes to knowledge and I can never seem to get enough of the stuff.  My family can attest to ...