The QI Book of Animal Ignorance is a selection of articles about creatures from Aardvark to Worm, which means the authors are applying the word ‘animal’ in it’s loosest sense. The book covers birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, arthropods and invertebrates as well as mammals and marsupials. Unlike the various QI Books of xxxx Facts, this…
When an author has written a series of books I usually prefer to review them in the order they were written,, or in chronological order if the series has a chronology. I’m going to break that habit with Gerald Durrell’s books because I picked up some books covering his later collecting trips. These are the…
It’s three months since I last posted anything on this blog. My eye problems have made it hard for me to use a computer for more than about 30 minutes at a time. Tablet use is even shorter. This has made it hard for me to keep up with my blog. I have been able…
Fall of Giants is the first book in Ken Follett’s ‘Century’ trilogy. It tells the story of five families in the years preceding, during and after the First World War. The characters range from Welsh miners to European aristocracy, Russian foundry workers to American high society. I don’t read war stories, but this is not a…
