Wisdom of Bookmonkey

...and suddenly it's been two and a half months and although I've spent most of it in my house, I'm not spending in on my blog. ...

So last month I came across an interesting looking post in my FaceBook Feed: (Side note - if any of my readers are interested, now you kno...

During my lunch hour today I finally caught up with all those other Diana Gabaldon fans and finished Written In My Own Heart's Blood, ...

For the last few days I've been getting that ominous feeling you sometimes have when a cold is on the way.  Sort of a, not feeling too...

Happy December Everyone! Having entered the final month of 2014, I’ve got eight books ahead of me and hopefully a couple weeks I can dedic...

For the last few years I've been working my way through editors Kim Newman and Stephen Jones 1988 reading guide, Horror: the 100 Best ...

Or at least eleven books for this month - yup, April 2014 had me beat my average monthly reading for the last three years by four. Which...

For years I've been keeping track of the books I read. First on a spreadsheet on my computer (that one keeps track of every book I...

Right now I'm reading the book The Gone-Away World  by Nick Harkaway for one of my book clubs. At two chapters in I can tell you it ...

Over the years I've read a lot of Fantasy, whether part of a shared world (DragonLance), or of the stand-alone variety.  The problem i...

One of my favourite parts of blogging has always been the fact that whenever I run out of stuff to talk about, I just have to scan through a...

In case I haven’t mentioned it before; I like to read, a lot – actually a whole lot. On average I read roughly 100 books a year and I’...

The first piece of mythology I can recall reading is the story of Theseus, but even though he is much more famous for his adventures in ...

Overall I’d saw I’m a pretty voracious reader – if I read less than half a dozen books over the course of a month, I feel like I’m falli...

As I’ve said elsewhere, I’m pretty regular in terms of what I read; I like to visit my favourite genres, current author, my two book club ...

Over the spring and summer of 2012 I’ve been taking evening classes to continue my work towards my Masters of Library Science Degree. The ...

Yesterday morning I was sitting on a bench in Southgate mall reading my oversized fantasy novel and drinking my small coffee (Starbucks – Pi...

I read a lot - maybe 10 books a month, not including manga, comics or magazines, so over time I've noticed that I can dramatically incre...

One morning while reading the paper I was struck by an interesting idea - what if you read all of an author's books in chronological ord...