Hello everyone, I am really hoping to finish my A-Z of books by the end of the year, so I have decided to combine some of letters for my remaining posts. It was an easy decision, especially when there are not many things to read about beginning with Q. Fun fact...Q is the only letter … Continue reading My A-Z Of Books – P and Q
Hello everyone, It is a very long time since I last wrote one of these posts. To think it was one of the most regular features on my blog! Well I guess that now I am not as good (or to put it another way, even worse than before) at keeping up with new releases, … Continue reading Five Books On My TBR – July 2024
Pages: 374Published: 11th April 2024Genre: Historical FictionContent warnings: Misogyny, sexual references In a quiet house in the countryside outside London, the finishing touches are being made to welcome a group of young women. The house and its location are top secret, its residents unknown to one another, but the girls have one thing in they are fallen. Offering refuge … Continue reading Book Review – The Household by Stacey Halls
Image credit: Netflix Hello everyone, In April I read The One by John Marrs, a 2016 novel that imagines a world where everyone has a biological match - one person that they are guaranteed to fall completely in love with. This is turned into an app that people can download for a small fee, and the founder … Continue reading TV Adaptation Review – The One
Hello everyone, We have made it to halfway through the year - where did that go?! Anyway, that means it is time for the mid-year check-in, where I not only look back at what I have read so far in 2024, but also the directions my reading might take for the rest of the year. … Continue reading The Mid-Year Check-In 2024
Hello everyone, My latest A-Z post takes me to the letter 'O'. It is not the most common for character names and settings, but I have read several books beginning with this letter. I managed to remember enough for a total of 20 - here they are! Odile Bastian The main narrator in The Muse by Jessie … Continue reading My A-Z Of Books – O
Pages: 352Published: 5th September 2023Genre: HorrorContent warnings: Strong gore/injury detail, references to domestic abuse and alcoholism When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street - for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price - they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls … Continue reading Book Review – The September House by Carissa Orlando
Pages: 393Published: 1st August 2023Genre: Mystery/Psychological ThrillerContent warnings: Violence, misogyny I will start this post by saying the review you see below is not the original. I started a review on Goodreads and was very pleased with what I had written, but then it all got deleted! As much as I wanted to, it was hard to summon the … Continue reading Book Review – Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister
Hello everyone, Today I have a list of all the books I have read in which some of the story has taken place on boats, ships, and other marine vessels. For the title of this post, I honestly had to Google to see if a ship was a type of boat or vice versa, just … Continue reading Books That Contain Boats
Pages: 341Published: 25th May 2021Genre: Young Adult ContemporaryContent warnings: Biphobia, microaggressions Everyone likes Humaira "Hani" Khan - she’s easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can’t be bi if she’s only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that … Continue reading Book Review – Hani And Ishu’s Guide To Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
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