Tag: fiction
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WWW Wednesday, 8 February 2023
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 did you recently finish reading?What are you currently reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Recently Finished I loved The Slow Regard of Silent Things – it’s one […]
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Characters of the Year Book Tag!
I first saw this post done by Jaime over at Keeper of the Wood Between Worlds, and liked the challenge of thinking back over 2022’s reading in terms of the characters I met. I also enjoyed Anouk’s version over at Time for Tales and Tea, and the tag was created by Amanda at A Brighter […]
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Book Review: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Meet Ove. A man with routines. A man with principles. A man who drives a Saab (and thinks that anyone who drives anything different must be something of a lunatic). A man for whom the term ‘grumpy’ is something of an understatement. A man who doesn’t like cats. This is a wholesome, sardonic comedy, which […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2022
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Today’s prompt is ‘New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in […]
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WWW Wednesday, 18 January 2023
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 did you recently finish reading?What are you currently reading?What do you think you’ll read next? Recently Finished: The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Amazing book, amazing work of […]
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Book Review: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
In some respects, it’s difficult to review The Secret History – Donna Tartt’s 1992 masterpiece that ended up popularising the dark academia sub-genre – because it feels like everything that could have been been said has been said before. But given I took 15 years longer than I intended to get around to reading it, […]
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WWW Wednesday, 11 January 2023
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: The characters are all terrible terrible people and I love them […]
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Wrap Up! All the Books I Read in 2022
Welcome to a canter through my last year in books! I read 40 books in the last year – a nice round number that I’m pleased with, particularly given 2022 coincided with being a new mother and taking up a new job. There are also a lot of books on this list that have had […]
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Six Degrees of Separation: From The Naked Chef to The Bloody Chamber
Six Degrees of Separation is hosted by Kate at Books are My Favourite and Best. The idea, inspired by Frigyes Karinthy’s 1929 short story, Chains, is that everyone in the world is separated from everyone else by just six links. Here, we bring the idea into the world of books. This month we start with Jamie Oliver’s The Naked […]
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Greek Myth Retelling Readathon – Part 2: The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
In the months October-December, I’m setting myself a challenge to get through as many of the recent swathe of Greek myth retellings as I can, and review them all here. The first book I read was Circe by Madeline Miller, reviewed here. Now on to part two! The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker […]
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