Recent Acquisitions
Strictly speaking this installment of Recent Acquisitions are not that recent but from early last month. I forgot to post them whilst I was away (despite adding one of them to my summer reading pile) but wanted to share them with you before the latest -and Booker longlist heavy- acquisitions.
Kirsty of Oxford University Press generously [...]
Claire’s Corner
So, I’ve been blogging rather sporadically of late; all I can offer as a reason is that I’ve been busy and London was in the sweaty grips of a heatwave (the operative word being “was”). Pedicures and Pimm’s have been more appealing than posting, to be honest, but I do miss conversing about all things [...]
Paper Towns by John Green
John Green’s writing has been described as being privy to “a secret you can’t wait to divulge” and “like a John Hughes film… quirky and funny [mixed with] Sofia Coppola” (both in relation to his first novel, Looking for Alaska); Nymeth -recommendation reliant- is of the belief that “John Green can do no wrong”; [...]
Recent Acquisitions
This latest installment of recent acquisitions actually filtered in book by book a few weeks ago but I haven’t had a chance to post about them until now. These all happen to be review copies sent my publishers but I do have some purchases to share soon.
Alice from Bloomsbury sent me a copy of Paper [...]
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