Category: Books
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Review: Charlaine Harris – Poppy Done to Death
Finally the last book in this 8 book series. I’ve got mixed feelings over it ending, because although I’ve really enjoyed the series and I quite like the main character, I can tell that it’s not Harris’ best writing, and I’d much rather read the Sookie Stackhouse books (again). This book starts off with Roe’s
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Review: Charlaine Harris – Last Scene Alive
This book starts off a few months after the end of the last one, with Aurora still grieving the massive loss at the end of the last book. She decides that she has had enough of living her life under a cloud of misery and that she needs to start getting back to normality. How
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Review: John O’Farrell – The Man Who Forgot His Wife
When I decided to read this book, I thought it was going to be quite a serious book about the effects of memory loss, but it was anything but serious. Vaughan finds himself on a tube with no idea who he is, where he is or what he is doing there. He’s experienced a ‘fugue’;
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Review: Hillary Jordan – When She Woke
I know I’ve probably said this before a million times, but I am a sucker for a nice looking book. When I was walking around the Waterstones in Kendal (yes, I did drive all the way to the Lake District and end up in a book shop), this book jumped out at me straight away
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Review: Charlaine Harris – Dead Over Heels
Well this is the first book I’ve ever read in digital instead of as an actual physical book, and it’s totally put me off buying a kindle. The actual book was going to cost £30, but the kindle version was only £9.99, so I bought it on kindle and read it on my phone/iPad. Yes,
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Review: Nicholas Sparks – The Best of Me
I usually look forward to Nicholas Sparks books, but this one left me feeling a bit disappointed. The book was about 300 pages long, but I didn’t actually start to enjoy the story until more than 150 pages through. I would have stopped reading but I hate stopping a book half way through, instead it
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Review: Kate Harrison – The Secret Shopper’s Revenge
Well this book was pretty much what I expected from the title. 50% shopping and 50% trashy chick-lit. Saying that though, it was well written and the plot was quite unlike anything I’ve read before. The book has three main characters, Emily, Sandie and Grazia, although we are introduced to Emily first so it seems
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Review: Eleanor Brown – The Weird Sisters
I don’t know about the weird sisters, but it was definitely a weird narrative. The book was written from a collective retrospective first person. I was never any good at English so I’m sure there’s a proper word for that, but hopefully you know what I mean. Most of the time, the book seemed like
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Review: The Queen [Of Twitter] – Gin O’Clock
This was a bit of an impulse buy after I started following ‘The Queen‘ on twitter. The tweets seemed pretty funny and the book was only £4 so it was worth a shot. It looked along the same lines as Mrs Fry’s Diary that I read last year and found pretty hilarious. After I’d bought
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Review: William Boyd – Waiting for Sunrise
It seems like I’ve been reading this book for quite a while, it’s one that Cameron bought me for my birthday. It’s not my usual choice to pick a book set in the war, but he picked well because the book was fantastic. The plot jumped around a bit in the first half of the
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Review: Evan Mandery – Q: A Love Story
Well it’s been quite a while since I wrote one of these, although that doesn’t mean that I didn’t enjoy the book, I’ve just had an unusually busy month and not as much time for reading as I would like. It does mean that I’m now 14 books behind on my reading challenge, which seems
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Now Reading: Evan Mandery – Q: A Love Story
Okay, it’s an addiction. I MUST stop buying books, although I blame this one on Cameron for not stopping me. On the plus side, I’m 60% towards getting a £10 Waterstones gift card, unfortunately that means I’ve spent a little too much this year… The reviews on this one say that it’s great for fans
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Review: Nicholas Sparks – The Rescue
If you’ve read Nicholas Sparks before you’ll know he has a kind of ‘recipe’ for his books. Boy meets girl, they fall in love, there’s some drama and then everything miraculously works out okay in the end. It should be predictable, but he has a way of writing that pulls you in and you become
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Review: Paulo Coelho – Veronika Decides to Die
This is a pretty delayed review because I’ve been quite busy this week (including seeing the Blues Brothers at the cinema for the first time on Thursday and seeing the Olympic Torch in Huddersfield this afternoon), so I’m still slipping further and further behind on my reading challenge. Lacking a bit of motivation at the
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