Finish It February: Week Three Roundup
Personal Target: Finish/get up to date with four series Books read this week: One Total books read: Three Series completed for challenge: Two General feedback: So, yet another busy week in my household. I don’t know why I thought that…
Finish It February: Week One Roundup
Finish It February is a month long event where we try to finish as many of our half read books and incomplete series as possible. Personal Target: Finish/get up to date with four series Books read this week: One Total…
Switching To Teens
After producing five books for adults, award-winning novelist Martyn Bedford now writes teenage fiction. Here he explains why he made the switch to a different readership. When a family holiday ends in tragedy, the grieving parents’ marriage is left in…
Bookish Brits Book Club: Witch Finder
In January the Bookish Brits Selected Ruth Warburton‘s Witch Finder as their Book Club read. London. 1880. In the slums of Spitalfields apprentice blacksmith Luke is facing initiation into the Malleus Maleficorum, the fearsome brotherhood dedicated to hunting and killing…
Finish It February Sign Up!
Faye at A Daydreamer’s Thoughts and I decided (very late notice) to host Finish It February. A month-long event in which we will read as many unfinished books and series that we can. This idea came to us when Faye…
The Geography Of You And Me
Jennifer E Smith For fans of John Green, Stephanie Perkins and Sarah Ockler, THE GEOGRAPHY OF YOU AND ME is a story for anyone who’s ever longed to meet someone special, for anyone who’s searched for home and found it…
Bookish Brits: TFiOS Trailer Reaction
Yesterday there was a great deal of soggy, tear stained, excitement in the blogosphere. It was all down to the release of the trailer for The Fault In Our Stars movie, based on the heartbreaking book by John Green. Take…
Bookish Brits: Bomb Maker Buddy Review
Claire McFall. The English government have closed the borders with their Celtic neighbours. Any Celt found in England is branded with a tattoo, found twice they are executed. Scottish Lizzie is the ‘property’ of psychopathic London gang boss Alexander. Can…
Sawbones
Catherine Johnson Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra’s knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However,…
Bookish Brits: These Broken Stars
These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner It’s a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and…
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