Category: Books
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Review: Charlaine Harris – The Julius House (Aurora Teagarden #4)
Usually in a series the books get better and better, but unfortunately with this one the opposite seems to be true. Up until more than half way through this book, I was actually finding it very boring. For a start (and this may sound rather harsh), no-one died. For a murder mystery, you usually expect
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Review: Charlaine Harris – Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (Aurora Teagarden #3)
This book was the my least favourite of the series so far, I was a little disappointed by it to be honest. There was still an essence of Charlaine Harris, but you could really tell that it was one of her earlier books, the plot was just not very strong compared to other books of
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Review: Charlaine Harris – A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden #2)
It’s been a very miserable day here today, so instead of going out for a walk with my camera this morning like I was planning on doing, I tucked myself up with my book and some good music. The books within this omnibus series are not actually that long (less than 200 pages), so I
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Review: Charlaine Harris – Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden #1)
Apart from the fact that this book was so heavy (which made it very awkward to read), it was actually very good. Even if I’d not known it was written by Charlaine Harris, I think I would have been able to tell; she has a very specific style of writing. You could really tell that
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Now Reading: Charlaine Harris – Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden #1)
It’s no secret that I love Charlaine Harris, but for some reason I’ve had this book on my shelf for a long time and never read it. I think it’s probably something to do with the fact that it’s an omnibus, so it’s actually four books in one and it weighs a ton! It’s a
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Review: Alexandra Potter – Who’s That Girl
This book was about a girl from Yorkshire who moved to London when she was younger to pursue her dream of becoming a published author. Her dream hasn’t gone quite to plan, but she’s not done too bad, moving through a succession of rubbish jobs until she ends up starting her own PR company. By
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Now Reading: Alexandra Potter – Who’s That Girl?
I read another of Alexandra Potter’s books before Christmas and I remember not being able to put it down. I just wanted to keep reading until it had finished. I think that a good book should pull you in completely and make you feel almost as if you’re watching a film or living out the
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Review: Elizabeth Noble – Things I Want My Daughters To Know
I have to be honest, I do love a bit of chick-lit, and I was hoping for good things from this book. The story is about a woman who dies of cancer, but before she dies she writes a letter to each of her four daughters, along with a journal that she passes on to
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Now Reading: Elizabeth Noble – Things I want my Daughters to Know
This book was another impulse buy at WH Smith, bought mainly because I had a 20% off voucher, and I’d found another book that was 2 for £5. I thought at first that the book was really long, but when I got home and opened it up, the writing is about twice the size of
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Review: Erin Morgenstern – The Night Circus
After Hannah gave this book a 5 star review on Good Reads, I expected a good book, but this one totally went over and above anything that I could have expected. The book is set in Le Cirque des Rêves, a strange traveling circus that only performs between sunset and sunrise. The circus appears overnight in random
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Now Reading: Erin Morgenstern – The Night Circus
This book is one of the nicest looking books I’ve seen. Hannah got it for Christmas this year and when I saw it advertised in The Book People, I kind of had to buy it. The book looks amazing, with black edges and gorgeous looking chapter pages. I can’t wait to start reading it –
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Review: Vanessa Diffenbaugh – The Language of Flowers
Okay, I know I say this after pretty much every book that I read, but this was seriously the best book I’ve read in a long time, and definitely the best book of my 100 book reading challenge so far. The book centres around Victoria, a young girl in San Francisco who is forced to
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Now Reading: Vanessa Diffenbaugh – The Language of Flowers
This was an impulse buy at Waterstones last time I went to Meadowhall with Vicky. She hates being in book shops with me because I tend to spend quite a long time looking through books deciding which one to buy. I’d already picked one and they were buy one get one free, but she was
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Review: Chad Harbach – The Art of Fielding
This book ended up being nothing like I thought it would, but it had me hooked from the first page. I had expected a book that was heavily baseball oriented, but baseball was (in the main) just an undercurrent throughout the book to support the other issues. The book is centred around a few characters
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Now Reading: Chad Harbach – The Art of Fielding
I’ve had this book on my Amazon wish list for ages, but it said it wasn’t due to be released until the end of April. But I was shopping in Waterstones and I saw it on one of their table displays and I had to buy it. I didn’t really expect it to be out
Louise Douglas 