Vlog review: Stevie reflects on the death of Diana Wynne Jones and some comments on her last book Earwig and the Witch, released posthumously on June 9th, 2011.

Kelsey needs a summer job. Is she going to stack shelves in a supermarket? Serve fries at McDonalds? No, she’s going to go work in a circus and look after a Tiger. During her placement, a man visits the circus and offers to buy Ren the tiger and transfer him to a nature reserve in … Continue reading

I don’t think I’ve ever before read a book that so little suited both its cover and title. I would never have picked up the soppy picture of a girl sitting in front of the Eiffel Tower, and I never would have considered a book with the words ‘french kiss’ in the title, but I … Continue reading