Working from home has its benefits, but since my time started in lockdown and my schedule was disrupted, its been difficult to get back into a routine. This routine extends into my reading and weekend plans. Reading is just a mere thought and every time I think about it I shy away. I just don't …
Author: Foxy Socks
I was born in England before moving to New Zealand at the tender age of 15. I love to read, I crossfit, I am a weightlifter and I love the pinup scene. I spend most of my Saturdays going with my friend op-shopping and on Sundays I relax and do nothing.
Review – The Silkworm
“The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.”
Quarantine Reading
An apt image from New York for this year in general. Well isn't this a little strange. 80 percent of us are stuck at home with nothing to do... well almost nothing. I am still working from home. Being in marketing, my job never stops but it does slow down a bit. With Easter coming …
Review – Sanctuary
By V.V.James - Mystery " Sanctuary's the sort of place that's good at making you feel not good enough. " I have searched and searched for something about this author but I cannot find anything. All I know is that it does not read like a first novel. I believe this was written by a …
Review – The Whisper Man
By Alex North - Thriller/Mystery "The devil finds work for idle hands. Bad thoughts find empty heads" Imagine your child stating they heard a whisper coming through the window. Not only that but on another night, you find them opening the door to someone talking to them through the letterbox in the door. All of …
Book Review – Chernobyl
by Svetlana Alexievich - Non Fiction “ Is there anything more frightening than people? ” When I was a child, I vaguely remember hearing something about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant and how it changed the USSR almost the world. I wanted to learn more about it since the TV show aired, and I listened …
Book Review – All Our Secrets
By Jennifer Lane - Mystery/Crime https://jenniferlane.co.nz/ All our secrets is set in a small town in Australia, Coongahoola with the Bagoola river running through it. The river children, that were born in the aftermath of the infamous River Picnic, start to go missing one after the other. Hundreds of believers (termed "the Bleeders") also turn …
Bookstores and Expectations
I am a book lover that LOVES going into a bookstore, whether for old or new books, and looking for hours and hours at the titles. The thrill of the hunt (especially in secondhand bookstores) seem to be a draw for me to get me into the store. The only issue I have, at least …
Book Review – The Hoarder
by Jess Kidd - Literary Thriller “ Memory is like a wayward dog. Sometimes it drops the ball and sometimes it brings it, and sometimes it doesn’t bring a ball at all; it brings a shoe. ” Maud Drennan is an underpaid care worker who has been given a new case. A man who made …
Are Kiwi Authors Hiding?
I just picked up a new book by Elizabeth Knox on a whim whilst out to get coffee. When I read the blurb before buying it, it stated that it was a book about journeys. It passes through London, Norfolk (my home county) and through to Auckland, New Zealand (my current home). From this and …
