Because it’s an easy one to do in the normal course of my reading, I’m participating in the Bookish TBR Pile Challenge once again! The rules for this particular challenge are simple: any book published in or before 2014 is eligible. So, basically, any book not released this year. Piece of cake! Last year I READ MORE
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THE SUNDAY REVIEW | EX LIBRIS – ANNE FADIMAN
Anne Fadiman is–by her own admission–the sort of person who learned about sex from her father’s copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate’s 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #55
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks I don’t buy any books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some I haven’t READ MORE
WWW WEDNESDAY | #46
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What did you recently finish reading? What are you currently reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers! What did I recently finish reading? READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | MOST ANTICIPATED DEBUT NOVELS FOR 2015 (& SOME NON-DEBUT COS I DO WHAT I WANT)
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Most Anticipated Debut Novels for 2015. I honestly haven’t really started looking towards 2015 for new books from my favourite authors, let alone debuts! But now’s as good a time to start as any. Let’s see how many I can find! READ MORE
READING CHALLENGE | OFFICIAL 2015 TBR PILE CHALLENGE
Every year Roof Beam Reader hosts an Official TBR Pile Challenge. The aim of this challenge is to get through some of the books that have been sitting on our TBR piles for at least a year. That means that this year, any book published in 2013 or before is eligible. This is the READ MORE
2015 READING CHALLENGE | BOOK RIOT’S 2015 READ HARDER CHALLENGE
I didn’t manage to complete all my reading challenges from last year, but I had great fun participating in them, and I did find that they caused me to foray into new reading territory and discover a few books that I am very glad to have read. So this year I’m trying again. I’ll READ MORE
WWW WEDNESDAY | #45
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What did you recently finish reading? What are you currently reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers! What did I recently finish reading? READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | NEWJACK – TED CONOVER
Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system. When Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer. So begins his odyssey at READ MORE
MERRY BOOKMAS!
It’s officially Christmas in my neck of the woods, so let me take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a wonderful Christmas Day! May it be full of family, food – and plenty of book-shaped parcels under your trees!
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | LITTLE WHITE LIES – KATIE DALE
Fans of Pretty Little Liars will be ensnared in this tale of deceit. The first time Lou meets mysterious Christian, she knows he is The One. But Christian is hiding a terrible secret. Why does he clam up every time Lou asks about his past? Why doesn’t he have any family photos, and why READ MORE
BOOK THOUGHTS ON THURSDAY | ON BEING PLEASANTLY SURPRISED
The world of books is never boring. Every Thursday (well, almost every Thursday) I’ll discuss a different topic related to books, often inspired by or in response to what’s going on in the online book community (or something I’ve seen another blogger talk about). I call this Book Thoughts on Thursday. Feel free to weigh READ MORE
WWW WEDNESDAY | #43
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What did you recently finish reading? What are you currently reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers! What did I recently finish reading? READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | NEW TO ME AUTHORS I READ IN 2014
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten New To Me Authors I Read In 2014. I feel like I’ve read so many great books this year – many by authors I hadn’t previously read. Many of these are now on my must-read list. It’s a good variety READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES | #50
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks I don’t buy any books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some I haven’t READ MORE
WWW WEDNESDAY | #41
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What did you recently finish reading? What are you currently reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers! What did I recently finish reading? READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | SO ANYWAY… – JOHN CLEESE
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter’s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | MR. CHURCHILL’S SECRETARY – SUSAN ELIA MACNEAL
London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but READ MORE