Category: Books

Now Reading: John Fowles – The Collector

I’m now starting the second of my borrowed books (thanks Mike!). It sounds a bit weirder than the last one, the description on the back of the book says: … a nutty clerk captures and holds the art student he has become fixated upon, and there follows a fiendish interplay of sanity and insanity… Sounds
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January 24, 2012

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Review: Sam Savage – Firmin (Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife)

I didn’t really know what to expect from this book, all I knew was that it was about a rat that lives in a bookshop. My only experience of rats in books/films was Ratatouille, but I could take a guess that it would be nothing like that Disney/Pixar vision of happiness. From the first chapter
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January 23, 2012

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Now Reading: Sam Savage – Firmin (Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife)

Now that I’ve finished the Lily Bard series that my parents got me for Christmas, it’s time to change it up a little bit. Mike has lent me a few books to read, so that has me sorted for the next week or two. Definitely good to not have to spend ages choosing which book
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January 21, 2012

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Review: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Counselor

So this book review is a little late, my Grandma has been in hospital the last few days, so this wasn’t a priority. She’s home now though and looking much better! I really really liked this book, although it was a bit weirder than the other 4. In this one, Lily finally decides to go
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January 21, 2012

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Now Reading: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Counselor

So here we are on the last book in the series, it seems like it’s come far too soon! I hate it when I read a series that ends without tying up all the loose ends, like Harris’ Harper Connelly series that I read last year. What I really want from this book is for
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January 16, 2012

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Review: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Trollop

Woohoo! Finally caught up on my reading challenge, so I’m back on track now! This was book 5 out of 100, it’s been hard so far, so I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep it up all year! In my last post, I speculated that I thought this book would be about Becca
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January 16, 2012

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Now Reading: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Trollop

Onto book 4 out of 5 in the Lily Bard series, which I have to say, I’m really enjoying! Having already read 3 books out of the series, it feels like I’m getting to know everyone within the town of Shakespeare, so from reading the title of the book, I guessed that it would either be
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January 15, 2012

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Review: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Christmas

Thankfully (and as I had hoped), this book was not actually about Christmas, just set at Christmas, which meant I enjoyed it more than I thought. This book saw Lily go back to her hometown for her sister’s wedding, which meant she had to confront all the people from her past, who she had not
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January 15, 2012

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Now Reading: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Christmas

I’m now onto book 3 of 5 of the Lily Bard series that my parents bought me for Christmas. I’m loving this series so far, so I’m guessing that this one is going to be just as good. The only thing I hope out of this book is that it’s not too Christmassy. It seems
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January 12, 2012

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Review: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Champion

Finally finished this book, it took me longer than I thought it would so unfortunately I’m still behind on my reading challenge. I enjoyed this book even more than the first in the series. After having being introduced to the characters in the last book, you can feel more involved in the story. This major
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January 12, 2012

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Now Reading: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Champion

This is book 2 of the Lily Bard series by Charlaine Harris. The last one was awesome, and left it at a bit of a cliff-hanger in Lily’s life, so I’m excited to see where that goes in this book. After being introduced to the inhabitants of the town of Shakespeare in the first book,
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January 8, 2012

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Review: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Landlord

As I expected, I read this book very quickly (especially compared to my last book). And also as expected, it was great! I already knew that I loved Charlaine Harris and this book was awesome just like the others. This one was slightly different to the other two sets that I have read, as it
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January 8, 2012

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Now Reading: Charlaine Harris – Shakespeare’s Landlord

Book number 2 on my 100 book reading challenge is Shakespeare’s Landlord by Charlaine Harris. I’ve read two sets of books by Charlaine Harris – the Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) series, and the Harper Connelly series. I absolutely loved both sets of books and couldn’t put the books down once I’d started. I’ve now got
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January 6, 2012

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Review: Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections

So this book was the first of my 100 book challenge, and it took a lot longer than it should to read it, serves me right for picking such a long book to start off with! I need to read one book every 3.5 days on average, but here we are on the 6th January,
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January 6, 2012

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Now Reading: Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections

This is another of the books that I got for Christmas – part of a set of two by Jonathan Franzen. The descriptions of them on The Book People looked really good, so I’m really glad my brother bought them for Christmas. The book was the winner of the National Book Award and the James
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December 30, 2011

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