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Note: This book was provided to me by the publisher free of charge in exchange for an honest review. PopSugar Reading Challenge Prompt: A Book Published in 2016 Fantasy goes through phases. When the Lord of the Rings trilogy was released, everything went sort of Tokien-esque. Everything was beautiful elves imparting wisdom to fragile humans […]
From one dystopia to another. Look I’ll be honest, I am cheating a little here – Station Eleven was only a finalist for the National Book Awards. I struggled to find anything that looked interesting to me on the list of winners. They are all pretty heavy literary type tomes and for once I decided […]
Please note: This book was provided to me free of charge by the publisher in exchange for an honest review Look, I bent the rules a little to make this one fit. While the rights were purchased this year, the actual TV series doesn’t come out til 2018. Don’t care. After last week’s effort […]
I sort of struggled a bit with this prompt. Most books translated into English tend to be pretty classic novels that I sometimes find hard to read. I’ve already read the Millenium trilogy which would have been my first choice. Enter Amazon who suggested HEX for anyone who enjoyed The Woman In Black. Aside from […]
So I had to choose a book written by a celebrity for this week’s prompt and it doesn’t get much more famous David Duchovny to me, I mean he’s Fox freakin Mulder! No? Just me then. Right. Well on with the show. This isn’t David Duchovny’s first novel. He wrote an X-Files novelisation back in the day (Quake) […]
I’ve already read a lot of books set in Queensland, and once you go outside John Birmingham and Nick Earls, most of them seem to be super heavy historical tales about racism. So when I saw this one I bought it just for the title: Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerrilla Knitters Institute – […]
Keep Me Posted appeals to the child in me who waited at the mailbox – I love the romantic idea of letter writing but I’m not so great at the execution. Most of the time I struggle to return emails on time and my mail mostly consists of bills along with a hefty amount of Tupperware from […]
I bought the last Discworld book some time ago but didn’t want to read it. Because reading it means it’s true. Jingo was the first fantasy novel I read as an adult. It re-introduced me to the idea of fantasy novels and rekindled a love affair with the genre I’ve continued ever since. I first […]
I’ve been working through Kazuo Ishiguro’s back catalogue for a few years ever since I was lightly emotionally scarred by Never Let Me Go. I love the way each of his books have a secret that is gently and gradually revealed and The Buried Giant is no exception. Synopsis (from GoodReads) “You’ve long set your […]
Aaaand another from the To Read Pile. Done and dusted. I heard about Codex late last year when it was recommended to me on the Reddit Books subthread as one I would enjoy if I loved Ready Player One. I adore RPO as well as The Magician’s Trilogy, so I was excited to jump into […]