Tag: Book Review
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Review: Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay
At first when I was reading this book I thought it wasn’t going to be as actioned packed as the first two, and for the first part of the book, it was definitely more political than action packed. But it all picked up again about a third of the way through the book and it…
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Review: Suzanne Collins – Catching Fire
All I can say about this book is that it was better than the first, which is saying something because I loved the first one. There are plenty of reviews of this book on many WordPress blogs that will tell you what happens in this book, so I don’t really want to go into that…
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Review: Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games
I’m kind of ashamed to say I devoured this book in less than a day. I now know why all the reviews I’ve read say that you just can’t put it down once you’ve started it. I’m going to try not to spoil the story too much in case you haven’t read it yet and you’re…
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Review: Mitch Albom – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
I’ve just finished this book and it was fantastic! It was quite a sad book, but one that definitely made you think. The book is about 83 year old Eddie, who works on Ruby Pier, a seaside fairground. One of the rides malfunctions and comes crashing to the ground – he dies when he tries…
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Review: Jonathan Coe – The Accidental Woman
I realised after a few pages that I wasn’t going to enjoy this book, but I persevered anyway, because I don’t like to give up without giving a book a fair chance. I do wish I’d left it though, as I just didn’t like the book at all. My first problem was that it seemed…
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Review: Dirk Hayhurst – Out of My League
It’s been a while since I posted a review, not been feeling great the last few days so had a break from the laptop. But this book was awesome! I kind of knew what to expect from the book after reading Hayhurst’s first book (The Bullpen Gospels), and I most definitely wasn’t disappointed. This book…
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Review: Daniel Tammet – Born on a Blue Day
I want to give a big thank you to Hannah for lending me this book because it was fantastic, one of the most interesting and well written biographies I have read in a long time. The book is about Daniel Tammet, a man with Savant Syndrome and a condition called synaesthesia, which makes him see…
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