Hello everyone, We are now three quarters of the way through 2018 and it is time for another monthly wrap-up. How did that happen?! And September was a fairly good month. I may not have managed to finish quite as many books, and I also took a short break from blogging, but with relatively little … Continue reading Monthly Wrap-Up – September 2018
Hello everyone, I have seen this challenge on other blogs and it looked a lot of fun, so I really wanted to give it a go. A lot of people I know say that I have a good memory, so that also made this an interesting challenge! The Rules You must answer these questions without … Continue reading Book Blogger Memory Challenge
Pages: 303Published: 12th January 2017Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Flora has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything day-to-day: the joke her friend made, the instructions her parents gave her, how old she is. Then she kisses a boy named Drake, and the next day she remembers it. It's the first time she's remembered anything since she was ten. … Continue reading Book Review – The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr
Hello everyone, We have already reached the end of August! It really does seem like no time at all since I was writing my previous monthly wrap-up, but luckily I have managed to get plenty done in the meantime, so I am pleased to say that this was a fairly productive month! First of all, … Continue reading Monthly Wrap-Up – August 2018
Hello everyone, It is now only THREE WEEKS until Lethal White, the next book in the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith (that's J.K. Rowling to us) is released. I personally cannot wait, and am going to be building up to it by rereading the first three books in the series, which sit happily in my … Continue reading Rereading…Cormoran Strike
Pages: 434Published: 12th July 2018Genre: Crime Thriller A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely alive. No one knows who they are - the woman can't speak, and there are no missing persons reports that match their profile. The elderly man who owns the house claims he has never seen them before. The … Continue reading Book Review – In The Dark by Cara Hunter
Pages: 380Published: 6th March 2018Genre: Crime Thriller Last night, 8-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from her parents' summer party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying. DI Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows that nine times out of ten, it's someone the … Continue reading Book Review – Close To Home by Cara Hunter
Pages: 372Published: 29th May 2012Genre: Mystery The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter—and that she was kidnapped as a baby thirty-one years ago. Tommie wants to believe it’s all a hoax, but suddenly a … Continue reading Book Review – Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin
Pages: 302Published: 2nd October 2017Genre: Non-fiction The Trauma Cleaner is the story of one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay and disaster, told by Sarah Krasnostein. Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman. But as a little boy, raised in violence and … Continue reading Book Review – The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
Hello everyone, I have not added many books to my TBR lately, but the list is still long and full of books that I don't know if I will ever get around to reading! And every two months, I like to share with you some of the books that I hope to get to in … Continue reading Five Books On My TBR – August 2018
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