sleeping beauties, by Stephen King & Owen King: #BookReview.

Having read many of Stephen Kings excellent books, I expected to find this as easy to read and enjoy as all the others. But it has an inbuilt problem for me as a reader from the UK. The language and cultural references in the first chapters are frequently confusing and sometimes even incomprehensible.Generally speaking, if …

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The 100 Most Pointless Things In The World, By Alexander Armstrong & Richard Osman: #BookReview.

If you haven’t seen the show (BBC1 and variously repeated on other TV channels), you probably won’t get the best out of this amusing collection of facts, opinions, jokes and odd asides. But don’t let that stop you giving it a go. It’s a well-written book. Lots of humour. Some of the ‘pointless’ items you’ll …

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