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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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Down the TBR Hole #13
Read more: Down the TBR Hole #13Welcome folks to the thirteenth round of Down the TBR Hole! That’s right, I’ve somehow reached unlucky number thirteen of this blog post series and I kind of can’t believe it. The previous twelve posts from 2017 have really helped to clean up my Goodreads TBR and start to get it to a point where it’s a little more honest…
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Best Books of 2017
Read more: Best Books of 2017Welcome one, welcome all, to the downright obligatory Best Books of 2017 post – my name is Emma and I’ll be your cruise director for today. As you can see, this post didn’t quite make it out into the world on New Years’ Day as I intended, because apparently I took a fortnight to reflect…
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2017 | A Bookish Year In Review
Read more: 2017 | A Bookish Year In ReviewIt’s that time of year again – the time when I wrap up all of last year’s reading into one handy post for reasons. But first, how did 2017 in general go for me personally? As far as years go, 2017 was much better than 2016. For a start, no beloved family members passed away so woo, congrats family,…
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T5W | Books I Didn’t Get To In 2017
Read more: T5W | Books I Didn’t Get To In 2017Welcome one and all to this week’s Top 5 Wednesday post! For those of you who don’t know Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme/challenge which was created by the wonderful Lainey from gingerreadslainey and is now overseen by the equally lovely Sam from Thoughts on Tomes. Every Wednesday, participants devise their Top 5 based on a given topic. This Wednesday’s…
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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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Bout of Books 21 | Sign Up & TBR
Read more: Bout of Books 21 | Sign Up & TBRHi everyone, it’s the first readathon of the year for me – it’s Bout of Books time! Having felt a bit bogged down with readathons and reading challenges in the last quarter of 2017, I stopped putting so much pressure on myself to participate in every readathon and instead had a nice little break, so I missed…
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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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December 2017 | Wrap Up
Read more: December 2017 | Wrap UpWelcome one, welcome all to my slightly belated Wrap Up post for December. Now I am back in Liverpool after being at home for Christmas, I am reunited with my laptop and its image-editing software so I can finally bring you my wrap up for how I did with my reading in December. As we…
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End of Year Book Survey 2017
Read more: End of Year Book Survey 2017Hi everyone! It’s my favourite time of year in the book blogging community- when everyone is reviewing their year, settling on their top books and celebrating how well they did with their reading year. I love doing my two-part wrap up of the year in reading but I can’t finish my posts until I return…
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