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I love reading nature and travel books. I have a blog where I leave my reviews felcherman.wordpress.com happy to receive books to review. Also happy to review Whisky but reviews will be less conhearenet..cohearrent...readable like.
My review of We Are All Adrift by David Banning and Iain Sharpe felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w... #books
We Are All Adrift by David Banning and Iain Sharpe
What Da Cover Says: Weaving together fragments of artists’ stories across time and place, David Banning embarks on a Sebaldian exploration of the enduring legacy of harbours and the sea. In a post-…
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November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
My review of We Are All Adrift by David Banning and Iain Sharpe felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/w... #books
My review of Wrongful by @leeupton.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/w... clever book this @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #books
Wrongful by Lee Upton
What Da Cover Says: When the famous novelist Mira Wallacz goes missing at the festival devoted to celebrating her work, the attendees assume the worst—and some hope for the worst. Ten years after t…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My review of Wrongful by @leeupton.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/w... clever book this @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #books
My review of Vanished Wales: Places lost in living memory by Carwyn Jones felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/v... well worth a read. Available from @serenbooks.bsky.social #books
Vanish Wales: Places Lost In Living Memory by Carwyn Jones
What Da Cover Says: Vanished Wales: Places Lost in Living Memory is the book to accompany one of ITV Cymru Wales’ most popular shows. It explores the fascinating stories of lost landmarks: pla…
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October 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My review of Vanished Wales: Places lost in living memory by Carwyn Jones felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/v... well worth a read. Available from @serenbooks.bsky.social #books
My review of Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire by Paul Beaver felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/m... Very interesting topic. #bookreview available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social
Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire by Paul Beaver
What Da Cover Says: Reginald Mitchell is one of the greatest names in aviation history. A visionary engineer with a passion for speed, his legacy is the most iconic fighter aircraft of all the Spit…
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October 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
My review of Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire by Paul Beaver felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/m... Very interesting topic. #bookreview available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social
My review of Cocaine Eyes by Michael Keenaghan felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/c... Fantastic exploration of London's dark heart. #bookreview
Cocaine Eyes by Michael Keenaghan
What Da Cover Says: WELCOME TO THE CRIMINAL HEART OF LONDON. Meet the coppers who do things their own way, street gangs on the rampage, traditional villains, sightseeing hitmen, dedicated smash and…
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October 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My review of Cocaine Eyes by Michael Keenaghan felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/c... Fantastic exploration of London's dark heart. #bookreview
my review of TIDBITS volume 1 by @jackcjstark.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/t... Highly recommend you read this quirky collection of poems #Bookreview
TIDBITS Volume 1 by CJ Stark
What Da Cover Says: A menace.A tech savvy frog.A demon that cleans.Parks.And a suspicious number of ducks. A collection of humorous and absurd poems (one even rhymes!) from Jack CJ Stark. What I Sa…
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September 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
my review of TIDBITS volume 1 by @jackcjstark.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/t... Highly recommend you read this quirky collection of poems #Bookreview
My review of Descanso by @jayspencergreen.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/d... Brill book crammed full of important facts #books
Descanso by Jay Spencer Green
What Da Cover Says: Drug-dealer, brothelkeeper, devoted sibling, spy, Manuel Estímulo expected his retirement on a remote desert island in the Atlantic to be one long, well-deserved rest, a descans…
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September 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My review of Descanso by @jayspencergreen.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/d... Brill book crammed full of important facts #books
My review of The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/t... got my copy from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social #naturewriting
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
What Da Cover Says: A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world around his Hampshire home. Dai…
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August 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My review of The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/t... got my copy from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social #naturewriting
My review of The Only Wolf Is Time by Dan Tremaglio felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/t... this was a fun read. Thanks to @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #BookReview
The Only Wolf Is Time by Dan Tremaglio
What Da Cover Says: Air is a graffiti artist and self-described street hermit who spends his nights in urban encampments and days in public libraries, reading up on physics and ancient philosophy, …
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August 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
My review of The Only Wolf Is Time by Dan Tremaglio felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/t... this was a fun read. Thanks to @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #BookReview
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Today is #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay, and we're reading @pollyrowena.bsky.social's Wainwright longlisted book, #TheCompanyOfOwls...
‘I couldn’t put down this warm and comforting, beautiful book.’ Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries
Order at @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3H80cfk
#Owls
‘I couldn’t put down this warm and comforting, beautiful book.’ Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries
Order at @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3H80cfk
#Owls
August 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Today is #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay, and we're reading @pollyrowena.bsky.social's Wainwright longlisted book, #TheCompanyOfOwls...
‘I couldn’t put down this warm and comforting, beautiful book.’ Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries
Order at @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3H80cfk
#Owls
‘I couldn’t put down this warm and comforting, beautiful book.’ Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries
Order at @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3H80cfk
#Owls
My review of Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/l... Fantastic book this un from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #bookreview
Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece By Julian Hoffman
What Da Cover Says: A story of shelter, generosity and welcome. A story of searching for home in the mountains and lakes of northern Greece. In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia…
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August 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My review of Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/l... Fantastic book this un from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #bookreview
My review of the Road by Cormac McCarthy felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t... Not as many laughs as I expected. #books
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
What Da Cover Says: In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscap…
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July 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My review of the Road by Cormac McCarthy felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/t... Not as many laughs as I expected. #books
My review of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/j... Fantastic novel this un. #bookreview
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
What Da Cover Says: Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. …
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July 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My review of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/j... Fantastic novel this un. #bookreview
My review of A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/a... good book this un. available from @canongate.co.uk
A Ballet Of Lepers by Leonard Cohen
What Da Cover Says: Written between 1956 in Montreal, just as Cohen was publishing his first poetry collection, and 1961, when he’d settled on Greece’s Hydra island, the pieces in this collection o…
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June 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
My review of A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/a... good book this un. available from @canongate.co.uk
Horror Movie time: Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (only 7 more Draculas to complete the challenge) #HorrorMovies
June 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Horror Movie time: Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (only 7 more Draculas to complete the challenge) #HorrorMovies
My review of Bee Quest by @davegoulson.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/b... Got a huge amount from this fascinating book @vintagebooks.bsky.social
Bee Quest by Dave Goulson
What Da Cover Says: A hunt for the world’s most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Salisbury plain to Sussex hedgerows, from Poland to Patagonia. Whether he is tracking great yellow bumbleb…
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June 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
My review of Bee Quest by @davegoulson.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/b... Got a huge amount from this fascinating book @vintagebooks.bsky.social
My review of Left on Read by G.C.Mckay felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/l... Highly traumatic reading. fun #books
Left on Read by g. c. mckay
What Da Cover Says: Love in the age of screenshots, nudes and getting ghosted Whether you’re doomscrolling at midnight, checking out who viewed your story (for 56th time in an hour) or wonder…
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June 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My review of Left on Read by G.C.Mckay felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/l... Highly traumatic reading. fun #books
My review of Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/n... Well good this book. available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #books
Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts by Hannah Bourne-Taylor
What Da Cover Says: Nature Needs You tells the compelling story of how Hannah, without campaigning experience, funding or contacts, set out to save swifts from extinction in the UK. Her mission is …
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May 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My review of Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/n... Well good this book. available from @eandtbooks.bsky.social #books
My review of Spine by @johnnymuggins.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/s... available from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social incredibly funny book
Spine by John Patrick Higgins
What Da Cover Says: John Patrick Higgins has been told he’s spineless for as long as he can remember. But if that’s true, why is he obliged to leave an armchair with the nervous trepidation of some…
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May 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My review of Spine by @johnnymuggins.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/s... available from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social incredibly funny book
My review of The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/t... Part of the quarterbound editions from @vintagebooks.bsky.social now I need another one please. #books
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
What Da Cover Says: A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter’s feminist retelling of fairy tales – masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends – …
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May 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My review of The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/t... Part of the quarterbound editions from @vintagebooks.bsky.social now I need another one please. #books
Currently playing, not watched this in many many years, loved it the first time I saw it. #HorrorMovie
April 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Currently playing, not watched this in many many years, loved it the first time I saw it. #HorrorMovie
Now watching this cute little monkey movie. #HorrorMovies
April 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Now watching this cute little monkey movie. #HorrorMovies
My review of The Bridge Between Worlds by Gavin Francis felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/t... Thought provoking read. #books available from @canongate.co.uk
The Bridge Between Worlds by Gavin Francis
What Da Cover Says: In The Bridge Between Worlds, Gavin Francis explores bridges old and new, man-made or natural, musing on the view from the bridge through history, geopolitics, psychology and li…
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April 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
My review of The Bridge Between Worlds by Gavin Francis felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/t... Thought provoking read. #books available from @canongate.co.uk
My review of 91 Day Sanction by @georgeveckauthor.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/9...
Tough subject matter, well written. #Books
Tough subject matter, well written. #Books
91 Day Sanction by George Veck
What Da Cover Says: Gwynedd, 2024. Sadistic work coach James Burgess has finally bagged his dream job after three years of trying, two hundred miles from home in rural North Wales. But with promoti…
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April 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My review of 91 Day Sanction by @georgeveckauthor.bsky.social felcherman.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/9...
Tough subject matter, well written. #Books
Tough subject matter, well written. #Books
Now Playing: 1408, saw this when it first came out and I think I liked it...time to test that memory. #HorrorMovies
March 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Now Playing: 1408, saw this when it first came out and I think I liked it...time to test that memory. #HorrorMovies