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Just Finished…City of Bones
So, this is my first book of 2016… I realise that I am about eight years late in giving this series a try, but it has been sat on my bookshelf for ages now and I just randomly plucked it off and...
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Just Finished…The All Souls Trilogy…
It’s taken a while to get to reviewing this series, as once I’d started the trilogy with A Discovery of Witches back in September 2015, I then bought the other two books and thought I would do a...
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Just Finished…The Testing Trilogy
Maybe an odd few spoilers in here, so tread carefully, just as you might if you were going through The Testing yourself! In the last couple of weeks I’ve read the three books that make up ‘The Testing’...
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Just Finished…Slated by Teri Terry
I really liked the concept of Slated – wiping the minds of young criminals to enable them to be reintroduced to society with improved behaviours – in a recognisable dystopian view of London. The book...
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‘Thank you’ to Bloggers
Sharing Mel’s recent post from her author blog on appreciation for what it means to be a blogger… Happy new year! Mel Cusick-Jones Coincidentally, another Melanie seems to appreciate bloggers too! I’ve...
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Just Finished…Anchor Leg by Jack Croxall
The Blurb… Stranded 750 million miles from Earth. Stranded with a saboteur, stranded with a killer. Humanity has spilled out into the Solar System, into a succession of giant space stations known as...
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Just Finished…Life and Laughing by Michael McIntyre
The ‘2017 year of reading’ plan directed that November would be a comedy and so I bimbled around the library until I came across Life and Laughing by Michael McIntyre. This the second autobiography of...
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Just Finished…Monsters by Emerald Fennell
I picked Monsters up in the library because of the quirky cover. Reading the very brief blurb on the back it reminded me of a film from years ago with Kate Winslet (I think), where two odd friends...
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Just Finished…If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Several friends have recommended If I Stay, by Gayle Forman, to me and it has sat languishing in my bedside table for a while now – this cover is for the version of the book I have and so must have...
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Just Finished…Freakonomics
So, non-fiction month… I don’t often read non-fiction, but I do really enjoy them when I do. I started Freakonomics about a couple of years ago, read the first couple of chapters/essays and enjoyed it,...
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Just Finished my Halloween Read…The Women in the Walls
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics My rating: 4 of 5 stars OK, so ‘technically’ I’ve not ‘just finished’ The Women in the Walls, I’m re-posting a review that I did previously for Goodreads and my...
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Sunday Write Up – Join in…
Back to help me keep creative during the COVID-19 lockdown, decided to do some little ‘writing sprints’ to pass the time – feel free to join in, take a week to write your piece (no more than a couple...
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Sunday Write Up – Join in…
Welcome to another ‘writing sprint’ – feel free to join in, take a week to write your piece (no more than a couple of hours worth of writing effort required and then share here in the Comments, or on...
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Sunday Write Up – Join in…
Welcome to another ‘writing sprint’ – feel free to join in, take a week to write your piece (no more than a couple of hours worth of writing effort required and then share here in the Comments, or...
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Sunday Write Up – Join in…
Welcome to another ‘writing sprint’ – feel free to join in, take a week to write your piece (no more than a couple of hours worth of writing effort required and then share here in the Comments, or...
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Writing Sprint ‘ Absolute Reality’
I pull the car into empty space at the side of the road. There’s no crunch of tyres, no engine idling, none of the stereotypes of this action that books and films would use to tell me I had stopped...
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