Sheila's Guests and Reviews

I'm still Taking that Reading Journey , and I found a way to work out how many points I've made each month. Current totals... Jan 168, Feb 208, March 17. I've just posted some more book reviews too Incendiary by Chris Cleave - an amazing tale of large events writ small in the life of a London woman. (I wrote a review of Chris Cleave's Little Bee last week. I'm hooked. He's a really great writer!) Passing Fancies by A. F. Stewart, a very enjoyable collection of short stories and drabbles, perfect for keeping on the desktop of your computer (or by your coffee mug, though you may prefer not to eat jammy dodgers while reading some of them). Thunder and Blood , by Stacey Voss, who hopes to give birth to both the sequel and a new baby sometime soon. a theory of all things , by Peggy Leon: Okay, I posted this review earlier, but the book's just come out, so you might want to give it a look. Seriously, it's one of the best books I've read recently, by an ...

I'm still reading, still writing book reviews, still taking that journey . And I read the most amazing book this week - a bound galley, not even published yet, from The Permanent Press . It's called a theory of all things , and I was hooked from the second page. The first page is emails to and from a young man called Mark. The reader learns he's done something a little out of the ordinary, perhaps embarrassing, but doesn't know what. Then on the second page Mark narrates his own tale. Having been a fairly serious mathematician myself back in the day, I feel like I know him. He's that genius in college who found everything so easy and just had to explain it all, the one who related everything to mathematical theory then wondered why the rest of us seem uninvolved in his great imagining. He's real; he's cute; he's intriguing; and he drives you up the wall. Marks misadventures had me laughing out loud, his misunderstandings had me cringing for remembered em...