The Real Pink Panther by Robert Sellers – Stories Behind the Classic Films – is a lovely book. I gave it 4 stars and I would recommend it to anyone who has seen at least the first Pink Panther movies. It is a rather short…
An Anthology of Christmas by Auriol Bishop is a random book I got from the library because it had Christmas on it. I wanted to read it during Christmas and because I didn’t look properly I didn’t realise that it is a book for children.…
A Tommy’s Sketchbook by Henry Buckle – Diary and Drawings from the Trenches – is a very nice book. I bought it from the gift shop of the Tank Museum. It’s a diary and sketchbook of a soldier in WWI. He spent a bit over…
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania – Lonely Planet – is a travel guide about the Baltic States. I wanted to visit them and this book was available at the local library, so I borrowed it. What a mess this book is. Each country is covered by…
Ukrainian script hacking by Judith Meyer – the optimal pathway to learn the Ukrainian alphabet – is better to be avoided. I gave the book 1 star because it is such an appalling mess. This should have been about the Cyrillic alphabet as it is…
On the Streets for Ukraine by Elke Rollmann and Niko Rollmann. They are a mother and son team who make lovely books with pictures. Elke was selling her book at an event I’ve been to in London, in support of Ukraine. The money for the…
Still City by Oksana Maksymchuk – Diary of an Invasion – is the debut poetry collection of a Ukrainian poet. She wrote and published in Ukrainian, but after the full-scale invasion she started writing in English. I was at the launch of the book in…
I found Maria Merian’s Butterflies by Kate Heard as a free to download pdf on Royal Collection Trust’s website. See the link at the end of the post. I loved the book. It’s not long and most of it are reproductions of beautiful artwork made…
Chess for Dummies by James Eade is the first book I read on chess and it is a very good book to start with. It gets a bit repetitive at times with the directions to other parts of the book, but it is worth reading…
I bought Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking by Annie Atkins when I visited a museum in London. It seemed interesting even if I’m not too keen on movies. Well, this book didn’t disappoint at all. It is a behind-the-scenes insight into the complicated design of…
Joy of Jigsaws by Holly Lambert* – A Puzzler’s Guide and How to Make Your Own – was just the book I wanted to read. In the last few months we’ve started making a lot of puzzles and, even more, we mounted 9 on them…
My regular readers know how much I’m enjoying this series and 30-Second Fashion by Rebecca Arnold* is another book I loved. It contains 50 key modes, garments, and designers, each explained in half a minute. I read some biographies of designers before, such as Alexander…
When my husband and I were grocery shopping I saw this A-Z Puzzle Book on the supermarket’s shelves. It looked interesting and I thought it would be fun, so we got it. My husband and I did just shy of 20 puzzles from it and…
Allegory of the Cave by Plato was my favourite thing (and the only one I could remember) I learned at Philosophy in high-school. So, I wanted to read it again. It’s part of Plato’s Republic. It was hard to decide what to say about this…
Mary’s household tips & tricks by Mary Berry. Your guide to happiness in the home. I’ve made a post about the tricks I’ve learned from the book, see here. Now I’m going to talk about the book and why I think it would be a…
The main reason I gave it 2 stars is because the name of the book says Brain Games for Dogs. If the book would have had the name Brain Games for Puppies or for beginners, it would have been a 4-5 stars, without any doubt.…