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T5W | Banned Books I’ve Read
Read more: T5W | Banned Books I’ve ReadCourtesy of the wonderful Lainey, this week’s Top 5 Wednesday topic is pleasingly ‘Banned Books You’ve Read’, to coincide with the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week running throughout this week. As a cursory look at the ALA’s website will reveal, most books that have something to say will have, at some point, irked a lot of people to…
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Friday Reads | 25th September 2015
Read more: Friday Reads | 25th September 2015This Friday Reads is an optimistic one (aren’t they always?) given I’ll be enjoying a long weekend of relaxation (hopefully) in Edinburgh with a trio of lovely friends. You’d think this means zero reading time but as I am me and everyone involved knows that, I’ll still be taking a couple of books along with me because…
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T5W | Title Fonts on Covers
Read more: T5W | Title Fonts on CoversI’m a sucker for a pretty cover, even better if it involves some typography or just a lovely font. Saying these things outside of the internet earns raised eyebrows but I feel like the book community here understands this love – which is why this week’s Top 5 Wednesday topic of Title Fonts on Covers…
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Top Ten Tuesday | Books On My Fall TBR
Read more: Top Ten Tuesday | Books On My Fall TBRLike lists? Like books? Then Top Ten Tuesday by The Broke and the Bookish is definitely something worth checking out. A weekly meme created by the aforementioned lovely ladies, the concept is simple – they set the theme, you scurry around your bookshelves finding 10 books to fit said theme. It appeals to the listmaker…
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Review: Viper Wine
Read more: Review: Viper WineTitle: Viper Wine (2014) Author: Hermione Eyre Read: 11th-20th September Genre: historical fiction (with plenty of glorious anachronism) Rating: 5/5 Links: Goodreads | Amazon Set in 1632 England, Viper Wine follows Venetia Stanley, a noblewoman once considered a beauty by society who is now less that impressed with what the ravages of time do to said infamous beauty.…
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Friday Reads | 18th September 2015
Read more: Friday Reads | 18th September 2015Long time no see. I was away enjoying a lovely relaxing holiday in Menorca for a week without proper Internet access – that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. I did manage to finish a couple of books whilst I was there though, so there is that. I come to you from the same…
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Review: The Princess Diaries
Read more: Review: The Princess DiariesTitle: The Princess Diaries (2000) Author: Meg Cabot Read: 16th July Genre: Young-adult; humour; romance Rating: 4/5 Links: Goodreads | Amazon “Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.” Mia Thermopolis is just your average fourteen-year old girl, worried that she’s ugly, worried that her hair is dorky,…
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Top 5 Books of 2015 So Far
Read more: Top 5 Books of 2015 So FarSo, we’re halfway through the year. I know, I didn’t realise either until I saw a spate of Top 5 of 2015 So Far videos and blog posts making the rounds. Because in my own little bubble of delusion it is not 2015, let alone July 2015, it’s just not, all the calendars in the world are…
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Review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Read more: Review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the UniverseTitle: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012) Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz Read: 27th-28th June Genre: Young-adult; contemporary; LGBTQ Rating: 4.5/5 Links: Goodreads | Amazon I open this review with a confession: I underlined so many quotes in this book. I’m generally not a person who underlines or annotates novels for the simple…
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