Skip to content

bookskeptic.com

  • About
  • Reading History
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
  • To Be Read
    • 2017
    • 2016
  • Projects and Challenges
    • 12 Museums for 2022
    • 12 Plays for 2022
    • #20BooksofSummer 2021
    • #20booksofsummer 2020
    • #20booksofsummer 2019
    • 12 bookshops for 12 months
    • #20booksofsummer 2018
    • #20booksofsummer 2017
    • #20booksofsummer 2016
    • Reading Ireland Month 2016

Tag: Queen's Gambit

The Queen’s Gambit – Walter Tevis

On January 20, 2021December 21, 2020 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

As you may know from my previous post I had some adventures getting to read The Queen’s Gambit. But I finally got there, and decided to follow my mum’s footsteps in reading the book before watching the series. Which, having now done both, I still think was sound advice. Now, you either already know what …

Continue reading The Queen’s Gambit – Walter Tevis

Queen’s Gambit – Elizabeth Freemantle

On January 18, 2021December 21, 2020 By bookskepticIn Reviews3 Comments

I’m sure you know that a few months ago the whole world went bonkers for the Netflix series Queen’s Gambit. In the first weeks, I missed the hype and only found out about it from my mum. She told me she is reading the book before she’ll watch the series because she would be too …

Continue reading Queen’s Gambit – Elizabeth Freemantle

Enter your email address to follow my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 496 other subscribers

Present

  • A Pause
  • The Shark is Broken – Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, dir. Guy Masterson
  • The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
  • A Long Way Off/ Daleko, dalej – Pascal Garnier
  • Charles Dickens Museum – 12 Museums for 2022

Past

Categories

  • Quotes
  • Reviews
  • Thoughts
  • Uncategorized

Tags

#12bookshopsfor12months #20boksofsummer #20booksofsummer #20booksofsummer20 #20BooksofSummer21 #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks Andrzej Sapkowski book book haul book review book reviews books Canada Crime crime fiction Elena Ferrante Elizabeth Strout fiction Ian McEwan Ian Rankin Ireland Jeanette Winterson John Grisham Jo Nesbo Julian Barnes Kapka Kassabova Kate Atkinson Kazuo Ishiguro London Margaret Atwood Neil Gaiman New York non-fiction Olga Tokarczuk Poland quotes Rebecca Solnit review round up Shirley Jackson short stories Stephen King The United Kingdom Thoughts Thriller Toni Morisson travel United Kingdom United States warsaw
  • View bookskeptic’s profile on Facebook
  • View @booksceptic’s profile on Twitter

Blogroll

  • Disco Demolition Night
  • British Museum blog
  • Book Haunt
  • The Daily Dosage
  • bookskeptic.com
  • The Critiquing Chemist
  • the blue bore
  • WOCreads
  • Simoneteffect – Pure Black & White
  • rants and raves of a bibliophile
  • Ranty Runt of a Reader
  • Lady Fancifull
  • Read Diverse Books
  • Tony's Reading List
  • If Books Could Blog
  • Iconic Photos
  • London In Photos
  • Words And Peace
  • Novels & Teacups
  • Tara Sparling writes
  • 746 Books
  • Cleopatra Loves Books
  • Show This Book Some Love
  • The Reading Bug
  • Savidge Reads
  • Cameron Book Reviews
  • Tincture of Museum
  • The Hungry Monster Book Review
  • Fleeting Brook
  • FictionFan's Book Reviews
  • Fig and Thistle
  • The Bookshelf of Emily J.
  • ReadandReview2016
  • The London Particular
  • photospace violetta kaszubowska
  • The Bibliophile Struggle
  • mirabile dictu
  • Big Reading Life
  • The 100 Greatest Books Challenge
  • Laura Broadberry
  • heavenali
  • Drunk Off Rhetoric
  • Reading the End
  • ireadnovels
  • Kate Beth Heywood
  • The Bookworm Bistro
  • Spiral Spun
  • Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
  • Reading Turtle Duck
  • bookssavetheworld
  • Tales from the Reading Room
  • 101 Books
  • Worn Corners
  • Donovan Reads
  • CANVAS & QUILL
  • Duchess Reading
  • theliterarysisters
  • Dysfunctional Literacy
  • bookowly
  • Lizzy's Literary Life
  • Bits & Books
  • Shoshi's Book Blog
  • Brontë's Page Turners
  • JacquiWine's Journal
  • thebookshelfblog
  • booksaremyfavouriteandbest
  • http://bookowly.wordpress.com
  • Consumed by Ink
  • KURTBRINDLEY.COM
  • BookerTalk
  • BeeOrdiway
  • The Daily Post
  • inkyspells
  • Thinking in Fragments
  • Lotus Book Blog
  • A Note From Abroad
  • Distant Drumlin
  • bhaktimotta
  • If You Can Read This
  • RatherTooFondofBooks
  • Reading To Remember
  • She Reads Novels
  • Happily Ever Bookish
  • The Writes of Woman
  • Sorry Television
  • Tea & Paperbacks
  • findingtimetowrite
  • Book Snob
  • Beyond Eden Rock
  • cup of tea with that book, please
  • JacquiWine's Journal
  • the knitted footballer
  • Real Life Reading
  • WordPress.com News
  • Lisa Tiller
  • Penguin Blog
  • Damn Ugly Photography
  • Dream by Day
  • The Novel Eater
  • Leaping Life
  • Hard Book Habit
  • The Perks of Being a Bookworm
  • madame bibi lophile recommends
  • My Book Strings
  • The Bookish Badger
  • Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
  • thelibrarylizard.wordpress.com/
  • CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert's Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment
  • Asylum
  • Portobello Book Blog
  • RELATING TO HUMANS
  • Franklenstein
  • sunroseclear
  • Travels Food
  • The WordPress.com Blog
  • The Book Satchel
  • middle, beginning & end – The Book Review
  • Simonet – Pure Black & White
  • cupandpaper.
  • 120secondbookreviews
  • Mike Finn's Fiction
  • A reader's footprints
  • Adventures in reading, writing and working from home
  • Feminist Texican Reads
  • BaileyBee

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • bookskeptic.com
    • Join 496 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • bookskeptic.com
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy