Allegiant  by Veronica Roth

Book 3 of the Divergent series. I discovered a little way into this that unlike the first two books which are all from Tris' perspective, each chapter in this one alternates between her and Tobias and I had to acknowledge this next to each chapter heading. As I understand it, Book 4 (Four) is about him, so I wasn't expecting this until then and I found it a challenge at first, and still a little odd since this is the third book in a series. Alternating through different character perspectives reminds me of The Expanse series where I was new to it as I never used to read as much fiction. Sometimes I found girly Tris, as created by Veronica, to be a little annoying, especially with biases towards her boyfriend Tobias who it seemed to be was Veronica playing herself with her dream boyfriend, and now I have to assume she could understand the mentality of Tobias himself; maybe she got help from some male friends for this.

Satanism and Witchcraft by Jules Michelet

The Complete Book of Dreams by Pamela Ball
 - A practical guide to interpretation and dreaming creatively

I've been actively intrigued by dreams since childhood when, as I recall, I dreamed of a burning city and the following day drew, with crayons, a colourful picture of a scene I saw. With my school friends I was into digging in the mud and a following day at school we unearthed some charred remains beside the school playground - I was convinced this and my dream had been related.

While the internet is a useful resource for looking up particular dream symbolism, it's certainly handy to have a book instead, and now I have one with this book that I picked up at a thrift shop. A lightly thumbed paperback it weighs in at 500 pages, and as other reviews on Amazon have pointed out, the font size is very small. This means there is a lot of information packed in, but also that you need quite good eyesight!

As is commonplace with such books, the second half forms an A-Z, whereas the first half covers the following:

 - Introduction
 - Sleeping and Dreaming
 - Dream Interpretation
 - Managing Your Dreams
 - Creating Your Own Reality
 - Enhancing Your Dreams
 - Dream Dictionary: Common Images

The final pages cover:
 - Living With Creative Dreams
 - Tips And Techniques

The introduction curiously states (p.9): "It has been discovered that at certain stages in the development of control over creative dreaming some very bizarre distortions take place." What bizarre distortions I wonder.

Astronomy for GCSE by Patrick Moore

I'm slowly working my way through this book, researching further things of interest. You can find out more in my Astronomy section which is dedicated to this pursuit.

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Book 2 of the Divergent series.

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Book 1 of the series.

Thiaoouba Prophecy The Golden Planet by Michael Desmarquet
 - Abduction to the 9th planet; a true report by the author who was physically abducted to another planet.

This book reminds me of The Only Planet of Choice which I read in 2020 and 2010.

Children of the New Forest

This was a charming tale to read.

The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories by M. Cox and A. A. Gilbert

I saw this book at a carboot in September 2023 and thought it would be idea to read my way through it in the evenings of the month of October, leading up to Halloween.  I managed half of it that year and enjoyed most of the stories - they're published in chronological order. I then saved the final half for the Halloween month of 2024.

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

A novel that I'm not sure how I came to seek it out.