Review – Grumpy The Iguana by Susan Chapman
Grumpy is living his best life, enjoying the familiarity of his routine when inexplicably he’s made homeless. No wonder he becomes grumpy. Read on to find out if he remains that way.
Grumpy is living his best life, enjoying the familiarity of his routine when inexplicably he’s made homeless. No wonder he becomes grumpy. Read on to find out if he remains that way.
This is a book with the focus on children. Yes they are technically teenagers, but who are held accountable as adults.Β Children who are fulfilling adult obligations within their homes and on the streets.Β Even at school there is only a cursory attempt to treat them as minors. Femi Fadugba takes these issues and more, and crafts a a book that crosses genres, it is fantasy, it is science fiction, yet it is poignantly contemporary.
This Nordic noir mystery had an unusual storyline that was a slow burn for delivering obscure and tantalising information. Interesting read
The Echo Chamber is a laugh out loud story on the perils of modern society and social media’s influence on our way of life. Far fetched and very funny. Hold out for the audiobook and you won’t regret it
The premise seemed right up my street for a children’s book – having confidence in being yourself. But Meow came across as a disruptive classroom agitator rather than a free thinker. Shame.
Sometimes there is too much to write and it’s easier to summarise visually.
Check out my recap for July 2021, I went big and read like crazy. Some month are great like that.
This new addition to the canon is suitably reminiscent of the original stories. Prepare to be dumbfounded by Sherlock Holmes prowess and deductive skill with suitable support from Dr Watson
Kissing Emma is an accurate and disheartening representation of current stories you hear time and time again in the news: young people caught up in a spiral of poverty, addiction and/or domestic violence with very few positive options to escape. These shouldn’t be familiar stories, we shouldn’t be desensitised, but we are.
You will be amused and charmed by this tale of pest control. No preventative measures or exterminators rather polite notes. How very civilised
It’s not often that I will say I’m gleeful of the comeuppance of well deserving individuals, then compound it by confirming how amusing I find their murder. Once you’ve read How To Kill Your Family, you’ll understand why