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: The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep – Joanna Cannon

On May 11, 2017May 7, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews1 Comment

I read many raving reviews of this book, so obviously I decided to give it a go. The book is narrated by ten year old Grace, it's set in the extremely summer of 1976, the action revolves around The Avenue, where one day Mrs Creasy disappears. Grace and her friend Tilly decide to find her, …

Continue reading The Trouble with Goats and Sheep – Joanna Cannon

April round-up

On May 1, 2017June 4, 2017 By bookskepticIn ThoughtsLeave a comment

April didn't necessarily bring spring to London, but it certainly did to Madrid, where I spent a wonderful weekend. Reading-wise the month started so well that in the last week I decided to finally tackle It by Stephen King, at almost 1400 pages it is a bit intimidating book. Luckily I have it on my Kindle, …

Continue reading April round-up

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

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

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