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Review | How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb
Read more: Review | How Not to Be a Boy by Robert WebbTitle: How Not to Be a Boy (2017) Author: Robert Webb Narrator: Robert Webb Publisher: Canongate Read: 8th January – 16th February 2018 Genre: non-fiction; memoir Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars “RULES FOR BEING A MAN: Don’t Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don’t Talk About Feelings. But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now:…
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Review | The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
Read more: Review | The Language of Thorns by Leigh BardugoTitle: The Language of Thorns (2017) Author: Leigh Bardugo Illustrator: Sara Kipin Publisher: Orion Children’s Group Read: 27th – 28th January 2018 Genre: young-adult; fantasy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and…
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Review | Princess Diaries: Take Two by Meg Cabot
Read more: Review | Princess Diaries: Take Two by Meg CabotTitle: Princess Diaries: Take Two (2001) Author: Meg Cabot Narrator: Anne Hathaway Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books Read: 10th – 11th January 2018 Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars “Fourteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that she’s a princess – and heir to the throne of Genovia! But…
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Review | Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Read more: Review | Fangirl by Rainbow RowellTitle: Fangirl (2013) Author: Rainbow Rowell Publisher: Pan Macmillan Read: 2nd – 4th February 2018 (original review) Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath it’s something more. Fandom is life. It’s what got her and her sister, Wren, through losing…
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Review | The Fandom by Anna Day
Read more: Review | The Fandom by Anna DayTitle: The Fandom (2018) Author: Anna Day Publisher: Chicken House Read: 12th – 15th January 2018 Genre: young-adult; dystopia Rating: 3 out of 5 stars “No story is worth dying for … is it? Violet and her friends love being part of the fandom for The Gallows Dance. But at Comic-Con, they’re somehow catapulted into the story…
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Review | Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Read more: Review | Sourdough by Robin SloanTitle: Sourdough (2017) Author: Robin Sloan Publisher: Atlantic Books Read: 15th – 17th January 2018 Genre: contemporary; magical realism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two…
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Review | The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin
Read more: Review | The Wicked Cometh by Laura CarlinTitle: The Wicked Cometh (2018) Author: Laura Carlin Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Release Date: 1st February 2018 Read: 1st – 6th January 2018 Genre: historical fiction Rating: 3 out of 5 stars ‘This newspaper has taken note that the past month has been remarkable for the prevalence of cases where men, women and children are declared missing.…
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Review | This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
Read more: Review | This Is Going to Hurt by Adam KayTitle: This Is Going to Hurt (2017) Author: Adam Kay Read: 5th – 12th November 2017 Genre: memoir; non-fiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your…
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Review | The Killers, Wonderful Wonderful Tour at Liverpool Echo Arena
Read more: Review | The Killers, Wonderful Wonderful Tour at Liverpool Echo ArenaOnce upon a time, I was very confused as to why Rosianna would buy tickets to see The Killers on multiple successive nights; it’s safe to say that, after going to one of their Wonderful Wonderful tour gigs, I’m no longer confused at all. Five years to the day after their last visit to the city, the band graced Liverpool…
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Review | My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
Read more: Review | My Salinger Year by Joanna RakoffTitle: My Salinger Year (2017) Author: Joanna Rakoff Read: 23rd – 27th September 2017 Genre: non-fiction; memoir Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars “At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D.…
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