Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Childhood/Teen Books that I'd like to Revisit.

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme run by The Broke and The Bookish.  It involves lists of, well, top tens. We like lists.  This week's Top Ten on the Mountains of Instead is brought to you by Splendibird.

The problem with loving to read is that there are so many, many books in the world and so very lit…

Cliffs of Fall (Review: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer)

Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer  Pan Books 1997
Edmund Mallory, one of the first and keenest adventurers on Mount Everest was once asked why he wanted to climb it.  He famously answered, “Because it’s there”.  And people have been climbing it, because it is there, ever since.  Not all with success. Mallory…

Gon Out, Bizy, Back Son.

For the last few months I've had whooping cough.  Whooping sounds like it should be fun, but it turns out it's rather crap.  Anyway. I've not finished a book in nearly three months due to tiredness and lack of concentration.  This is TERRIBLE.  Obviously, this means a distinct lack of …