Book Review - Broadmoor Revealed by Mark Stevens

Book Review - Broadmoor Revealed Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens

This was a fun book to read, it's not comprehensive and I would have liked to see more in the way of case notes or journal entries of the patients themselves. It's a good overview of the history and the life inside Broadmoor. Chapters look at 4 individual patients, escapees and babies born inside the asylum.

Rating 3/5
Challenges read for Goodreads and The 2012 Ebook Challenge.

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Book Review - Write Good or Die edited by Scott Nicholson

Book review - Write Good or Die edited by Scott Nicholson

This is a free download for the kindle, it offers articles of advice on many aspects of writing such as time management, determination, discipline, promotion, publishing and craft techniques. I will be referring back to some articles at a later date and I liked the relaxed tone of the articles some of the heavier "How to" books can be quite stringent.

Rating: 4/5
Product details:

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 286 KB
• Publisher: Haunted Computer Books; 1 edition (13 April 2010)
• Language English
• ASIN: B003H4QZOG

The publishers website can be found here.

Book Review - Playing With Fire - Edited by Coral Russell

Book Review - Playing With Fire edited by Coral Russell

For me, the stories in this horror anthology that I really enjoyed were:
Coral Russell's Devil of a Ghost Tour which had some genuinely creepy moments.

Brian Fatah Steele's Flawed and The Stuff Dreams Aren't Made of, both were quirky and unusual.

Chryse Wymer's This Dark Magic, a fun story of black magic with a well developed character.

Overall, all the stories are vastly different from each but the others didn't do it for me

Rating 3/5
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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 325 KB
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Alchemy of Scrawl (11 July 2011)
• Language English
• ASIN: B005CDD4IK

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2011 Reading List

2011 Reading List

Because I buy way more books than I actually have time to read and they can sit on the shelf for years unopened, I’m setting the task of playing catch up. These are the only books from my collection I currently have access to. And there are at least another 5 I’ll be purchasing over the next few weeks and adding to this list, after that no more buying or downloading until I’ve culled this list.

Ebooks

1) Cemetery Poets : Grave Offerings (Poetry Anthology)

2) Gorelets : Unpleasant Poems by Michael A Arnzen (Poetry Collection)

3) Dark Demons by Kurt Newton (Story collection)

4) Femmes De La Brumme (Short story Anthology) edited by Nicole Thomas

5) Momento Mori by Angeline Hawks Craig (short story collection)

6) Above The Arctic Circle by Brian Lawrenson (Non-fiction)

7) Are These Eyeballs by Garry Charles (Short Story Collection)

8) The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Novel) Take a peek inside with The Friday 56.

9) Twisted Imaginings Vol 1 by Garry Charles (Short Story Collection)

10)The Strange Case Of Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson (Novel)

11) Vicious Verses And Reanimated Rhymes edited by A. P. Fuchs (poetry anthology)

Paperbacks

12) Cell by Stephen King (Novel). Take a peek inside with my The Friday 56 entry.

13) The Rising by Brian Keene (Novel). Take a peek inside with my The Friday 56 entry.

14) Staying Alive: Real Poems For Unreal Times edited by Neil Astley (Poetry Anthology)

15) Myths And Legends by Anthony Horowitz (collected myths)

16) Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub (short story collection)

17) The Collected Poems of W B Yeats (poetry collection)

18) Moon On The Water by Mort Castle (short story collection)

19) The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror edited by Stephen Jones (short story anthology)

20) 52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem by Ruth Padel (Poetry reference) Take a peek inside with my The Friday 56 entry.

21) Collected Poems Of Sylvia Plath (poetry collection)

22) The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry (Poetry reference)

23) How Poetry Works by Phil Roberts (Poetry Reference)

24) Phantom Noise by Brian Turner (poetry collection)
25) The Man In The Picture by Susan Hill (Novel) Take a peek inside with my The Friday 56 entry.
26) Banquet For The Damned by Adam L G Nevill (Novel)
27) Nightmare Collector by Bruce Boston (Poetry Collection)
28) A Mouth For Picket Fences by Barry Napier (Poetry Collection)