Category: Books
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R. J. Palacio – Wonder
At the risk of sounding puntastic, this book was simply wonderful. Bought on a whim, attracted to it in Asda by the unusual cover, it has been sat on my shelf for quite a while! A rarity for books which switch between character perspectives, I loved each character that we heard from. At first I
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Veronica Roth – Four (A Divergent Collection)
I first spied this book just after it came out, but when I saw the price, I thought I’d leave it for my Christmas list, I didn’t really want to pay £9 for a book of short stories. But then I was having a pretty bad day and my lovely boyfriend brought it home for
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Kristin Cashore – Fire
I had very high hopes for this book after loving Graceling so much, I can’t believe it’s been so long since I read it! Unfortunately, I felt a little let down by the entire thing. The book in general was very slow to get going, with a prologue that didn’t seem relevant until almost the
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John Green – An Abundance of Katherines
I’m not going to lie, I decided I wanted to read this book because I’d read TFIOS and it was such an amazing book that I wanted to see if John Green was just a superb writer. On the basis of this book, I’d have to disagree. I’d read some comments on goodreads which said
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Milly Johnson – White Wedding
Well it’s been a long time since I started reading this book, over six weeks in fact. But I’ll blame that on Game of Thrones since this book was abandoned in my bedside drawer while I went on a fantasy epic. But after finishing Game of Thrones, and realising that I was going to a
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George R. R. Martin – A Dance with Dragons
Well I’ve finally made it to the end of this behemoth of a book! If I’d bought it differently, it would actually have been two books, but my set had it all in one, so it was a long hard slog to make it to the end! Even though it’s taken me almost two weeks
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George R. R. Martin – A Feast For Crows
Looking at the reviews of this book on Goodreads, it seems most people are annoyed about the fact that it took so long for this one to come out after the last one. Thankfully, since I’m behind the crowd as usual, I don’t have that problem. However, with only one book left for me to
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George R. R. Martin – A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold
Wow wow wow wow wow! (Be warned, this post contains spoilers. If you haven’t read this far yet, click away now!) Somehow, these books keep getting better and better. If I hadn’t had to go to work, I could have carried on reading all day, I was so enthralled in what was happening. There have
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George R. R. Martin – A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow
Our holiday to the caravan was the perfect opportunity to sit down and make some good progress through this series. I really just want to get to the end so that I can finally start to watch the TV series and talk to my best friend about it all without telling her off all the
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George R. R. Martin – A Clash of Kings
Well I actually started reading this book last year, right after I started reading the first book, but I got a little overwhelmed and gave it up. But I was ready for it this time. My dad bought the set on Kindle last year, so I signed in with his kindle account on my iPad
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John Green – The Fault in Our Stars
Having seen trailers for the film adaptation of this book, I thought I knew exactly what was going to happen, but the best authors have a way of ripping the foundations from under your feet. And I am currently residing in the same place that my heart sunk, the second floor basement, a place reserved
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Essie Fox – The Somnambulist
Honestly, I only decided to read this book because of how it looked. I didn’t have long to spend at the library choosing my next book, so it was very much a case of judging a book by it’s cover. And what a cover this is, so pretty and enticing! But oh how I’m glad
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Rachel Schurig – In Search of a Love Story
I read a few of Rachel Schurig’s books earlier this year and really enjoyed them. It’s typical predictable chick-lit, but that’s not always a bad thing. If you want to get lost in something easy to work where you can become completely absorbed with the characters, there’s nothing better than a good chick-lit book. I found
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Dirk Hayhurst – Bigger Than the Game
Dirk Hayhurst was one of the first people I followed on Twitter, way back in 2009, and I’ve been keeping a keen eye on him ever since. I absolutely adored his first two books, The Bullpen Gospels and Out of My League, and I was very excited for this one too. When it first came
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