Once in a while a book really gets to you. Jim Webster’s book Sometimes I just Sits and Thinks has done just that to me. Jim is a farmer in the English county of Cumbria. His sense of humour shines throughout each episode. If you come from farming stock as I do, this is the book for you. In my mind’s eye I was out there with Jim and his faithful Border Collies Jess and Sal. Sal is still working. Jess passed on after seventeen years alongside Jim…
Review
A review that never appeared on Amazon.
Why won’t it appear there? Because the person hadn’t spent a minimum of £50 on Amazon UK.
So, here it is anyway:
I really enjoyed the book. It was interesting to hear events unfold from a participant’s point of view. It inspired me to find out more about the events, and the different people who were involved.
Thank you,
C. Cousins.
PS – I gave him a paperback copy one day when he delivered my groceries. I started by asking him if he read books. He admitted that his eyes tend to glaze over with any normal length book. So Autumn 1066 was ideal for him, being so short (21 pages).
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Marjorie Mallon’s book…
Here’s my review…
What do you say about a book in a genre you normally steer clear of? In the case of Marjorie Mallon’s first book The Curse of Time, Book One – Bloodstone, the first thing to say is that it demonstrates just how the author’s mind works. It gives the impression of having been written at a frenetic pace. And yet the story takes an age to unfold before the reader. Right from the start I loved the heroine Amelina. Seeing the world through the eyes of a fifteen going on sixteen year old young woman was an education for this crusty old male writer.
If I had any form of criticism to make it would be… Sorry, but I can’t think of anything bad to say about the book. While YA is not my cup of tea, I take my metaphoric hat off to Marjorie.
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Well done that lady,
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A glowing revue…
…for what is after all nothing more or less than an extremely short book by anyone’s standards. Mine included…
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15 April 2018

Autumn 1066 gets another five star review…
March 4, 2018
The reviews still keep coming…
Race Against Time’s Reviews
Not one dissenting voice among them!
Proof that a good story never dies
Who though my best selling book written six years ago would get a brand new review?

7 February 2018
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My interpretation of the pivotal period in English history…
…gets another five star review
February 3, 2018
New Book!!!
My good friend the award winning Flemish writer Bob Van Laerhoven has a new book out. It is a collection of five dark short stories. Here is my review and one other:
28 January 2018
20 January 2018