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Bookish (and Not So Bookish Thoughts) #1
This is a weekly blog meme hosted by Bookishly Boisterous (link here) where you can write about anything that’s happening in your life, book related or not! 1. I’m home again for summer now that term has ended until September, and I always feel a little odd because I get on with my family really well, and I never have any arguments with them. Many of my friends at Uni say they hate going home for summer, but I really love it. I’m very grateful for my situation and for my family!! 2. Now the French Open has started I’m ready to get totally into tennis and not stop until…
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Fall Into Reading 2012 Update
Hello, after doing the Fall Into Reading challenge for 2 months now, I thought I would give an update to how I’m getting on. From my list of 13 novels, I have only read 4! I have some serious reading to do!! The list now looks like this: A Game of Thrones- George R.R Martin Great Expectations- Charles Dickens Perfect Storm- Sebastian Junger At the Going Down of the Sun- Elizabeth Darrell The Woodlanders- Thomas Hardy Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte Winter in Madrid- C.J. Samson The Shipping News- Annie Proulx Timbuctoo- Tahir Shah The 4 novels I have read are: Last Bus to Woodstock- Colin Dexter The Hitchhiker’s Guide to…
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UKYA Top Ten
If you live in the UK, then listen up. The website ukya.com are running a poll looking for the UK’s top 10 YA novels. They have been running a top 100 poll, but that has finished. Now you are asked to pick your top 10 from a longlist. There is a huge choice of books to pick from, so you will definitely find a top 10. I’m not sure how long this will be running for, so if you want your opinions to count, you should vote now. Also check out the rest of the website, as its really interesting, and full of YA news. Enjoy!!