Tag: books
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WWW Wednesday, 28th September
WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words. All you have to do is answer the following three ‘W’ questions below. What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Currently Reading: Just Finished: Reading Next:
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Book Review: A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright
This is such a modern-feeling book for one that was originally published in 1988 (though more recently re-released in 2017). It is a space opera, set in a future governed by two opposing immortal emperors. The key technology of this future is ‘webbing’: spaceships contain a web, which is an interface through which specially trained […]
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The Cozy Autumn Book Tag
Ever since September began I’ve been wanting to draw a pumpkin into my banner and write a cosy post to herald the start of the spooky season. This lovely tag was created by The Book Belle, though I first saw it over on Kristin Kraves Books, and it fits the bill entirely – so let’s go! […]
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Book Review: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
This is a story about death, grief, books, material possessions, mental health, mental illness, zen ideology, hoarding, clutter, consumerism, single parenthood… the list goes on and makes this story sound both expansive and perhaps rather dark. Expansive it certainly is. It stretches to 546 pages in hardback, has four points of view, and took me […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books In My Future Library
Today’s topic is ‘Books I Loved So Much I Had to Get a Copy for My Personal Library’. My personal library is just at the moment suffering from lack of space…
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Book Review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
This novel somehow manages to feel both huge and intimate. Its mere 255 pages span centuries. We start with Edwin – a man emigrating from England to Canada in 1912, then Mirella – a woman trying to reconnect with a friend in 2020, then to Olive Llewellyn, an author on a book tour in the […]
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June Wrap Up
This wrap up (and indeed my most recent reading) has been rudely delayed by an unwelcome house-guest in the form of Covid, but since he has now pretty much departed – leaving muddy footprints and damp drink rings everywhere I might add – we are attempting to resume normal life. Books I Read in June […]
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First Lines Friday #3
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. Today’s book was a gift to me that I’m very much looking forward to reading.
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Review: Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter #20booksofsummer22
This little novella completely floored me. In 114 pages of half-prose and half-poetry, it speaks from the point of view of a bereaved family – boys who lost their mother and a father who lost his wife. There is a crow in the house with them, an irreverent and slightly absurd character. He’s a caretaker […]
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Review: The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave #20booksofsummer22
This is one of those rare (for me) reviews splurged out immediately after reading the last line of the book, which is telling to how much I was gripped by The Dance Tree’s final chapters.
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