The Grateful Book Dragon

A week filled with graphic novels. I started the week with: Roots by Tara O'Connor the story of an Irish American artist who thanks to some crowd funding sets out to find out more about her ancestry. The book ends up very different to what she set out to create and becomes more about a woman grieving from her divorce and finding love in the arms of a friend instead  3/5 Next up was Breaklands, Season One: The Chase by Justin Jordan  described as  Mad Max meets Akira, which is fairly accurate 3/5 Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth Homeless Teenager Marcus is taken in to a school for assassin's chaos ensues  3/5. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman  is the story of London below and follows the story of Door as she escapes from assassin's and tries to figure out who is responsible for killing her family 4/5 Snow Angels Volume 1 Milliken and Mae Mae have never left the trench nothing but death lies beyond it. The Trench is brutal but it provides everything they...

Before I proceed I would like to say that this is in no way a sponsored post. I merely wanted to share the books I'm most excited about. I do not get paid to write these posts or receive free books. All the below books can be purchased/ pre-ordered from all good bookshops. I personally bought a copy of all these books from Waterstones purely because they offered special signed editions for everything except the Billie Eilish book but you do get an entry to win a signed copy if you pre-order before the deadline. Check Waterstones website for more information on that.  Girl In The Walls by A.J.Gnuse  (Due Out  01/04/2021) Girl in the Walls is a story of overcoming grief, of unconventional friendships and learning that we shouldn't always fear what we don't understand. Listening Still by Anne Griffin (29/04/2021) From the bestselling author of When All is Said comes a delicious new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead - a talent which is bo...

This week I'm just doing a quick roundup of what I read as I will be doing a post on books I'm looking forward to Instead This week I read The Lumberjanes Volume 1 Not going to lie had high hopes for this and wanted to love it but it fell short for me and if I'm honest I was a bit bored. 3/5 Next up was Terry Pratchetts Mort    which most definitely didn't disappoint. I'm slowly making my way through the Discworld series and next to Equal Rites  which is my favourite so far  Mort comes in a close second. I have a soft spot for books about Death. Terry always gives me a laugh but also never fails to make me think and if that's not the mark of a good book and a life well spent then I don't know what is. 4/5 My husband absolutely loves Brandon Sanderson and after reading the first Storm light archive book I have to say I can see why. I had heard good things about the Mistborn books and when my husband suggest I start with The Eleventh...

Its been a very good week for reading. I've been on a good roll with very few disappointing reads. Feeling very blessed. The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James (Gothic Horror) I'll be honest I rarely find horror fiction scary and this is no exception. However I do absolutely love this genre of storytelling . I find non-fiction or books that resemble reality far more chilling because the events within those can actually happen whereas, as much as I love reading about them I don't feel the same threat with ghosts or vampires and other such creations.  The scariest thing about The Turn Of The Screw for me is not the apparitions but the children. They are the creepy thing that and the governesses decent into a madness trying to understand what the hell is happening. Its one of those stories where your not actually sure who or what your meant to fear and that's what makes it what it is. Its a thriller and a paranormal mystery all rolled into one but no real resolut...

Enola Holmes, The Case Of The Missing Marquis (Children's Fiction Ages 9/12) Enola Holmes lives a very unconventional life for her time. She spends much if her time Alone which happens to also be her name only spelt backwards. She has no governess and has long been in charge of her own education. Her mother disappears on her birthday leaving her a number of gifts including a book of flowers and cyphers. When Enola calls upon her brothers for help finding her they are not all that helpful and Mycroft decides to send her away to a finishing school. Enola decides to take matters in to her own hands and taking a leaf from her mother's book she disappears off in search of her mother. Along the way she get tangled up in another missing persons case. I bought a copy of this for my niece and decided to give it a whirl. This is the kind of book I would have loved to read at that age. 4/5 Avengers The Children's Crusade (Graphic Novel) If you've read my bl...

Bestseller doesn't necessarily mean good. I can think of many bestsellers that are far from good but they are popular and sell well which makes them bestsellers. There is a different between profitable/ successful and a masterpiece.  Here's the thing though sometimes people like shit book's. They know they are shit book's but at that moment in time it's what they need.  It's the same with TV shows some are terrible even cringeworthy at times but we find ourselves only delighted to be watching them anyway even though we know they are terrible but terrible things can still be entertaining.  Take Twilight for instance. I thoroughly enjoyed those books even though they arent the Mae West. 50 Shades is arguably one of the worst book series ever written and people absolutely love it and that's okay. Your allowed like crap things. Don't feel guilty about your guilty pleasures. Just don't let on that because they are bestsellers that they are goo...

My Week In Books February 22nd-28th Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff I read H.P Lovecrafts complete works last winter and while there where elements I enjoyed I couldn't get past his blatant prejudices, classism and racism and nor would I want to. I read a lot of classics and so I'm usually able to see it through the lense of the time in which it was written but I wasn't able to do that with H.P. Lovecraft.  Lovecraft Country tackles the conjunction between the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft and racism in the United States during the era of Jim Crow and it tackles it amazingly well. Lovecraft Country is a book worthy of anyone's bookshelf. Every carachter came to life with ease, none of them felt forced or two dimensional. I especially loved Atticus, Letitia and Ruby.  I have yet to watch the TV Show adaption but now that I have read the book I feel like I know these carachters and can't wait to dive in and compare my imagination with that of the screen...