Tag: reading
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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, 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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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: 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 […]