The Secrets We Kept... About the Book: Sold in twenty-five countries and poised to become a global literary sensation, Lara Prescott's dazzling first novel about the women in the CIA's typing pool and the fate of Boris Pasternak's banned masterpiece is a sweeping page turner and the most hotly anticipated debut of the year. The … Continue reading Book Review: The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Six Degrees of Separation from Three Women to The Summer of Impossible Things…
It’s the first Saturday of the month which means a new round of #6degrees and this month’s starting book is Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. You can find the details and rules of the #6degrees meme at bookaremyfavouriteandbest, but in a nutshell, everyone has the same starting book and from there, you connect to other … Continue reading Six Degrees of Separation from Three Women to The Summer of Impossible Things…
The Week That Was…
Holidays...farewell my dear friends. All good things must come to an end. Back to work next Tuesday after a long weekend for the Queen's birthday - thank you very much Lizzie! It's all good though, only 9 weeks until the holidays...the BIG holidays. Say no more. ~~~~~ Joke of the week: ~~~~~ The sacrifices we … Continue reading The Week That Was…
Challenge Check In – September
And there goes another month. We'll be into the new decade before we can all say "so this is Christmas"... What do the numbers for September look like? #aww2019: 5 books Book Bingo with Mrs B's Book Reviews and The Book Muse: 1 book - only two left to read for this challenge! Next year's … Continue reading Challenge Check In – September
Book Review: Cross My Heart by Pamela Cook
Cross My Heart… About the Book: When a promise kept means a life is broke… Tessa De Santis’s child-free marriage in inner-city Sydney is ordered and comfortable, and she likes it that way. When tragedy strikes and her childhood friend Skye Whittaker dies, Tess is bound to honour a promise to become foster-mother to Skye’s … Continue reading Book Review: Cross My Heart by Pamela Cook
Behind the Pen with Holden Sheppard
It’s always a great pleasure for me to feature debut authors and today, I welcome Holden Sheppard to Behind the Pen, talking about his new novel, writing in general, and living your best life. How would you describe Invisible Boys if you could only use 5 words? Raw muscular unfettered grunge exorcism. What is the … Continue reading Behind the Pen with Holden Sheppard
Book Review: Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson
Paris Savages… About The Book: ‘This story has its genesis in fact, when three Fraser Island people were taken to Germany in 1882–83. The sole survivor was Bonangera (Boni/Bonny) whose life-size plaster cast remains at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France. The silencing that Badtjala people continue to endure in the localised historiography of place … Continue reading Book Review: Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson
#BookBingo – Round 20
This round gives me my second completed horizontal line - bingo! Romance: The Cinema at Starlight Creek by Alli Sinclair I don't read genre romance books at all, but I do read a lot of books that contain romance, particularly historical fiction. I've picked The Cinema at Starlight Creek for this category because it contained … Continue reading #BookBingo – Round 20
The Week That Was…
Holidays! I started off my weekend deeply immersed in a Little Women-a-thon, revelling in all of this luxurious time I had to read, and in keeping with my 'read at whim' goal, I was doing exactly that! Reading only what I felt like which turned out to be not only Little Women, but its follow-up, … Continue reading The Week That Was…
#TBT: What I was reading on this day five years ago…
According to Goodreads, on this day five years ago, I was reading Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. According to The American Library Association, Speak was one of the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books between 2000 to 2009. It's a vitally important novel and one I highly recommend. Have you read it? In 2004 a film adaptation … Continue reading #TBT: What I was reading on this day five years ago…
