Norfolk Bookworm

So that was 2009. It was a pretty mixed bag of a year both personally and in a reading sense and while it did have some high spots I can...

...is my reading ' mojo ' back. Sometimes it takes a blog post from someone else to highlight a problem, and my friend Sam over at B...

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years I've been a fan of Adrian Mole since I was a teenager, in theory we don't have a lot in common -I...

Biography. Even the most unobservant blog follower will have noticed that it has been nearly a month since my last post. I've been read...

Sequels (again) I did it again. I read an 'official' sequel to a childhood favourite. Why do I keep doing this to myself? I've l...

Airports are dangerous places, not because they involve huge security and airplanes but because of the bookshops. If you are addicted to rea...

Kisses on a Postcard - Terence Frisby I've read a lot about this book in various places and I've been waiting for my library reserva...

Wishing for Tomorrow - Hilary McKay. I think that gods of reading are conspiring against me at the moment and it isn't a nice feeling. I...

The Girl Who Could Fly - Victoria Forester. My plans to indulge in the Booker Longlist went awry this weekend when I failed to be at home w...

Who Knew? OK so I am as surprised as the next person - working in a library and being surrounded by books all day has actually cut my readin...

Evil? - Timothy Carter This book was delivered earlier this week, and to be honest I had forgotten that I'd ordered it. To celebrate my ...

The Rights of the Reader - Daniel Pennac I've just had three months not working. That has meant three months in which I could read all d...

Revolver - Marcus Sedgwick Once more I've been reading a lot but not finding much that is worth writing about. Nothing bad but just noth...

Moon Dust - Andrew Smith At 16.10 GMT on July 24th 1969 Apollo 11 splashed down safely. Kennedy's dream of putting a man on the moon and...

Fallen Astronauts - Burgess, Doolan & Vis Space travel is not without risk, this is something that all astronauts, cosmonauts and taikon...

Almost Astronauts - Tanya Lee Stone It wasn't until the launch of Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983 that America let a woman go int...

First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong - James Hansen Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched Neil Armstrong take his first s...

Magnificent Desolation - Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin stepped on to the surface of the moon twenty minutes after his commander on July 21st and w...

Carrying the Fire - Michael Collins There have been many books written about the Apollo 11 mission, some shortly after the success and many...

How 400 000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins have said from the very beginning that they were the smallest...