Top Ten Books I’ve Read So Far This Year
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I don’t know if I’m getting fussier with my 5 stars or I’ve just not read as many blow me away books this year, but I had to add some 4 star reads to…
A Year of Marvellous Ways
At ninety years old, Marvellous Ways is waiting for something. She has lived by herself in a remote part of Cornwall most of her life and has taken to swimming naked in the creek. The year is 1947 and a young soldier is returning, somewhat…
Quickie Review Time
It’s holiday season, so that means I’ve been reading books without the aim of having a lot to say about them. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to share a few thoughts though. There’s a tiny chance some of this contain spoilers for previous books,…
UK Goodreads Giveaways
Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase 30 copies, UK only Ends 23rd June Too Close to Home by Aoife Walsh 10 copies, UK only Ends 2nd July Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne 10 copies, UK only Ends 1st Aug Lady: My Life as…
Being a Girl
Being a Girl is a great book for teens who feel their PSHE is lacking in certain areas or just want an honest opinion on whether it’s OK not to shave. It preaches kindness and anti-douchebaggery whilst being amusing and informative on the subject of…
Because You’ll Never Meet Me
Ollie is unable to tolerate electricity. He is encouraged to start a correspondence with a penpal, a boy in another country who is also special. Moritz was born without eyes and has a pacemaker fitted to keep his heart beating. The very thing that keeps…
The Water Knife
Meteorologists all talked as if there could be records – and record-breakers – as if there were some pattern they could discern. Weather anchors used the word drought, but drought implied that drought could end; it was a passing event, not the status quo. Water’s…
Reader for Hire
Marie-Constance has a wonderful voice and a love of reading. One day a friend suggest to her that she should offer a service reading to people in their homes. So she places an ad in the local paper and waits for the replies to come…
Black Sun
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. The opening line may seem like something any mother would tell her son, but in the case of Serapio, his mother truly believes he will become the Crow God reborn. She blinds him,…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Just let me dust off this blog thing, I have a review for you! One of my anticipated reads released during lockdown was the follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. If you read that, of course will will be dying to know what happened to…