Nov 9, 2014 My Aunt gave me this book and I do admit when I first looked at it and turned it over to read the blurb I thought it sounded very cheesy, I judged a book by its cover, sue me. So I put it aside on my bookshelf and forgot about it, and… Continue reading Retro Review: Let’s Get Lost by Ali Alsaid
Retro Review: One Day by David Nicholls
Nov 19, 2014 Earlier this year I discovered the you-tuber Carrie Hope Fletcher AKA 'ItsWayPastMyBedtime'. She often talks about books and gives recommendations. In one of her videos she was talking about her favourite books or something like that and she mentioned One Day, among many others. So I got out my notebook, wrote down… Continue reading Retro Review: One Day by David Nicholls
Retro Review: The Age of Magic by Ben Okri
Dec 9, 2014 Firstly, this book is bloody beautiful. It is just smaller than your average book but just as wide and it has a wonderful hard cover, which is protected by the gorgeous dust jacket that you can see below. It's not shiny but nice and smooth and papery. Just thought I'd give you… Continue reading Retro Review: The Age of Magic by Ben Okri
Retro Review : A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Grey
Please enjoy the first review in a series of reviews that I will be re-uploading from my old blog. I really liked this book and the series ended up bring brilliant too. Reading this review as I was putting it up hear was making me feel like re-reading it. Not like I don't have enough… Continue reading Retro Review : A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Grey
June Wrap-up 2018
May was an amazing month of reading this year (check out my youtube channel to see a wrap-up of all that jazz). June proved to be less promising but still decent - much better than any single month last year that's for sure. Overview My thoughts I started 'Agnes Grey' at the very end of… Continue reading June Wrap-up 2018
Tome Topple Read-a-thon
I first heard about the Tome Topple Read-a-thon from Cat over at Little Book Owl, which is also where I found out about the Biannual Bibliothon which I will be posting more about in the next few days. I've been a bit stuck on things to do over on youtube at the moment and I… Continue reading Tome Topple Read-a-thon
Stone Girl by Eleni Hale
We open on blood. It's a powerful opening for a powerful story. Sophie is not even a teenager when she finds herself in a police station, blood and vomit splattering her favourite dress. Her mother dead. With nowhere else to go, Sophie is made a ward of the state and taken up into a world… Continue reading Stone Girl by Eleni Hale
The Last of the Bonegilla Girls
It’s 1954. Elizabeta arrives at the Bonegilla Migrant Camp, a shy sixteen-year-old Hungarian girl, with her family, hoping for a new start. Walking through the streets of the camp she meets the Italian Iliana, the Greek Vasiliki and the daughter of the camp director, Frances and despite language barriers the girls become fast friends. But… Continue reading The Last of the Bonegilla Girls
What I will try to read in May
I have set a reading challenge this year to read 75 books. At first, I thought this would be very ambitious but it turns out that I am doing better than I could ever expected. So far, this year, I have read...wait for it...30 books. It is true that a lot of these were smaller… Continue reading What I will try to read in May
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Everyone knows the story of the holocaust. The millions of prisoners captured and detained during World War II still horrifies the world and we also all know the story of Anne Frank. Anne was sent first to the largest of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and transferred to Bergen-Belsen only to fall ill and die… Continue reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz