Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet was just a perfect glum January pick me up. It is split across two eras. [...]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I’m rubbish with best seller, over-hyped books. They have too much to live up to usually.
I think The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo fell into [...]
The reading group book for November is Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance. I heard about this book from a recommendation by the elderly gentleman who comes once a year to clean the carpets at my house. He’s a great source of fabulous recommendations, others previously have been The Book Thief and The [...]
Warning: Discussion post – contains spoilers
I have to admit it took me ages to get going with this book. I kept picking it up reading a few pages, not getting hooked, putting it down *repeat*. As it got closer to the end of the month I thought I’d better get a [...]
Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
It’s probably difficult to believe, but from the blurb I didn’t pick up that this was going to be a vampire book.
This is why sometimes it is good not [...]
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I think Anne Tyler is my ‘go to’ author. The one you know won’t disappoint.
I really enjoyed Noah’s Compass. It is a discovery of 60 year old Liam’s life [...]
The Sandalwood Tree: A Novel by Elle Newmark
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I loved this book. A clever intertwining of two different stories set 90 years apart, with many parallels.
Set in India, in both the 1850′s and 1940′s [...]
Hard to believe that we are so far through the year that we are gearing up for the October read. As the children go back to school, and you start to feel that nip in the air, I always feel comforted that Autumn almost gives you permission to indulge in cosy indoor [...]
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