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Weekly Wrap Up | 28/12
Hello everyone, and merry Christmas if you celebrate. I have missed wrapping up my weeks reading these last few months, and I thought what better time to bring it back than at the end of the year from hell!! Enjoy my weekly wrap up (28/12) for the last week! Books Read Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli I listened to the audiobook of this novel on my last few days of work before Christmas, and I thought it was ok. It felt to me like it was trying too hard to do too many things at once, and it ended up not really doing any of them. Buy from Waterstones…
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Book Review- 337
Title: 337 Author: M. Jonathan Lee Publisher: Hideaway Fall Published: 30th November 2020 Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Rating: 4/5 stars 337 follows the life of Samuel Darte whose mother vanished when he was in his teens. It was his brother, Tom who found her wedding ring on the kitchen table along with the note. While their father pays the price of his mother’s disappearance, Sam learns that his long-estranged Gramma is living out her last days in a nursing home nearby. Keen to learn about what really happened that day and realising the importance of how little time there is, he visits her to finally get the truth. Soon it’ll be…
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Book Review- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Title: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Author: V. E Schwab Publisher: Titan Books Published: 6th October 2020 Genre: Fiction, Fantasy Rating: 5/5 stars When Addie LaRue makes a deal with devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone. Addie flees her tiny home town in 18th-Century France, beginning a journey that takes her across the world, learning to live a life where no one remembers her and everything she owns is lost and broken. Existing only as a muse for artists throughout history, she learns to fall in love anew every single day.…
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Top Ten Tuesday | Book Covers with Autumnal Colours/Vibes
Hello, welcome to this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post, this week we are chatting all things Autumnal. Here are my top ten book covers with autumnal colours/vibes. Thank you to That Artsy Reader Girl for hosting! Cane Warriors The Poppy War The Wizards of Once The Left-Handed Booksellers of London Assassin’s Apprentice Dark Pines The Kingdom of Copper A Deadly Education The Castle of Tangled Magic The Wind in the Wall Thank you for reading my Top Ten Tuesday post of book covers with autumnal colours/vibes. Have you read any of these? What would you choose? Let’s chat books! *links are Waterstones affiliate links*
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September Wrap Up
Hello, September has come to an end (how, where did it go!?!?!) so I thought I would chat through what I read in September. It was a good reading month for me, I read 18 books!! This is going to be a long post, so settle down with a cup of coffee and enjoy! I started the month off with the ebook of The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold. This is an urban fantasy novel about a private investigator who is hired to investigate a missing elderly vampire. This is a good debut novel, and would be perfect for fans of Ben Aaronovich and Jim Butcher. Rating:…