Still resting up...

Due to a cold front from Russia, my red boots have still been resting this week and there have only been two posts. A book review of The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling and a peaceful white sail.

Putting my feet up...

The red boots have had a little rest this week and there are only two posts: one about Operation Eiffel Tower, a very good book by Elen Caldecott and a red sail to help you float into the weekend.

These boots are made for walking

A wanderer in Paris has donned some cherry docs and moved. This week you can read a review of Liz Kessler's The Tail of Emily Windsnap, hear about what was going down at the Fleadh in 1994 (a bit of Saw Doctors and Exhilarating Sadnesss) and you can catch a glimpse of some slightly stuck mussels.

This week in red shoes

A wanderer in Paris has put on some red boots and moved. This week you can read a book review of Elen Caldecott's The Mystery of Wickworth manor, there is the Longpigs' Dozen wicked words here and a wave or two here.

And over there

A wanderer in Paris has moved and donned red shoes. This week you can read a review of Savita Kahlan's The Long Weekend here. 

If you're into music then you can read some random tales about Ryan Adams here. 

And finally there is a London memory here. 

A book review: The Undrowned Child

Title: The Undrowned Child

Publisher: Orion, 2010

Synopsis: It's the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby, can go 'between the linings' to subvert evil and restore order.

From Amazon.co.uk

In 2011 An Awfully Big Blog Adventure ran an online writing conference. They didn't do it again last year, or if they did it was during one of those long periods when I was off line, but the point is that the year before I won this book. And I took a really long time to get round to reading it.

If you would like to know what I thought of the book, A Wanderer near Paris has moved. You can read the whole review here.