The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams

This is the first book I haven’t ‘read’ since I was 8 years old and my favourite uncle gave me a cassette tape of one of the ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ books. I don’t remember which one that was, and I don’t think I even opened it from the wrapping. I’ve never really found […]

#ARMEDWITHABINGO 2020

It turns out I’m a sucker for a good bingo card, so I’ve signed up for #ArmedWithABingo with the above card.I’m not sure yet which books I’ll be reading for all these squares, but I’ve got a few ideas, and I’m sure I’ll have fun figuring out the rest. I’m starting with the book I […]

‘Matricide and Ice Cream’ by William Burton McCormick, #DealMeIn2020

It’s not about the actual story, but my Lord, my local library’s e-catalogue sucks ass. Unfortunately it doesn’t suck in the kind of way that would make for an interesting anecdote here, just one of the long meandering ‘… and then I needed to download another app, which of course takes forever, before I could […]

An Introduction

Hi, I’m Becca, and I love to read. At least, I used to love to read. As a kid, I used to go to the library every week and take out as many books as I was allowed (eight, because my parents said I had to take out two for my little brother who didn’t […]

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2020 Reading Challenge: Deal Me In

Deal Me In! The object of the challenge is to read 52 short stories over the course of the year. As I already had several anthologies of short stories that have been languishing on my bookshelves for a while now, I hoped that signing up would give me the impetus I needed to actually sit […]

2020 Reading Challenges

I’ve signed up to a number of different reading challenges for the year 2020. This post is the one spot I’m using to track my overall plans after I’ve signed up to everything. I love the idea of reading challenges. I’ve even done a few in the past but always been too scared – too […]