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: Shena Mackay

The Orchard on Fire – Shena Mackay

On April 26, 2021April 24, 2021 By bookskepticIn Reviews1 Comment

This book belongs to a genre showing us childhood from a child’s perspective. They always remind me how different the world looked then. How even now when I look at my memories I automatically apply the adult perspective to them. But when I focus I can recall not only the facts but also how they …

Continue reading The Orchard on Fire – Shena Mackay

Q1 2021 round-up

On April 5, 2021June 16, 2021 By bookskepticIn Thoughts1 Comment

With 2020 done and dusted things were supposed to be different! I am outraged, because they were not. As soon as 2021 started we ended up in lockdown 3.0 in London. And all the magical belief that changing the year will change anything went out the window. It has been by far the worst of …

Continue reading Q1 2021 round-up

The Best Saturday Surprise Ever

On February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 By bookskepticIn Thoughts2 Comments

Times are a bit doomy and gloomy, and continental Europe is still in deep winter chill, but there is no denying that in the UK the spring is coming. Saturday was a lovely and warm day in London, and with hiacynth's smell in the air everything suddenly felt a lot more hopeful. Do you know …

Continue reading The Best Saturday Surprise Ever

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

Join 484 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

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

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    bookskeptic.com
    Join 484 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • bookskeptic.com
    View site in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar
Loading Comments...
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