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Library Loot

I am going to put this in writing: I will NOT request any further books from the library until I finish reading the ones that I already have. Today I had to return The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb without reading it and am most annoyed with myself; I stupidly thought I [...]

Teaser Tuesdays

Quote a couple of spoiler-free sentences from the book you’re reading to tempt others.
“All of this he remembers and can see as plain as day – he just can’t say when it happened. Like a photograph that cannot be placed anywhere specific in the album”.
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey

"Snow, Glass, Apples"

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Everything Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a girl in possession of a book obsession, must be in want of a reading challenge. I have so many books to be read presently that I contemplated long and hard over committing myself to anything more than those and Ulysses. However, the Everything Austen challenge [...]

The Children of Green Knowe

I have embraced my inner child again this weekend, despite the disappointment of revisiting What Katy Did, by picking up a copy of The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston, following an absence of at the very least fifteen years. Like the Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, A Little Princess, [...]

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