On a roll
Day 3, Chapter 3. Feedback welcome. Chapter three Simon’s hand hovered over the keypad, his fingers twitching. ‘Fuck it,’ he whispered, selecting one hundred pounds from the list of tempting options....
View ArticleWhen you can’t see the wood for the trees.
Guilty. I moan about my home town, my home city, my home country. It rains a lot – there’s no arguing with that. The sky is more often grey than blue, which makes the architecture seem grubby and dated...
View ArticleTwo for the price of one
Two chapters of I took a pill being posted today, since 1) I was too busy posting pics of trees yesterday to put up any creative words, and 2) Chapter 4 is too short and scarce on detail/impact to post...
View ArticleBook review: Splinter the Silence, by Val McDermid
Well check me out, sticking with a series for more than 5 minutes! Not to mention following the correct order. This is #9 in the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series, and begins with Carol still ‘retired’...
View ArticleBook review: Insidious Intent, by Val McDermid
Well, what to say about this book? #10 in the Tony Hill/Jordan series, and it’s all gone a bit crazy. The plot follows a familiar format: another man is killing women because he can’t deal with what...
View ArticleBook review: Northanger Abbey, by Val McDermid
Why did I pick up this book? That’s a question I’ve asked myself, and the answer is that I’d been on a bit of a crime fiction binge and I thought I should switch to something a bit more light-hearted....
View ArticleSummer came back! (for one day)
September is proving to be a surprising month, weather-wise. Yesterday we had fog so thick I could barely see where I was driving. Today, we had clear blue skies and sunshine, with the temperature...
View ArticleBook review: Bring Me Back, by B A Paris.
I seem to have taken a wrong turn somewhere with my book choices lately. It’s a shame, because I’ve genuinely enjoyed the other two offerings from B A Paris, but this one just didn’t do anything for...
View ArticleThere was a river here, once.
There was a river here, once. The little bridge looks so silly, so pointless, straddling nothing more than arid rock where water used to be. It’s hard to guess when the water may have disappeared....
View ArticleThe New Normal
It seems as though this is a phrase we are or will be intimately familiar with as we try to make it through to the other side of these trying times. ‘Normal’ life will, we can only hope, resume soon,...
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