Author: Adam Kay Publisher: Pan Macmillan # of Pages: 160 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Having previously read Kay’s previous book The Diaries Of A Junior Doctor and enjoyed the frank recount of a junior doctor working on the front line in our NHS. With all of the festive spirit that was happening between Christmas and New Year … More Book Review: Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
I had really hoped to surpass my reading challenge in 2019 but so much cake up and I switched off from reading a little over the summer. I can’t wait to see how many books I read this year!! What was your favourite book in 2019? Did you have any 5 star reviews that you’d … More My Year In Books: 2019
Author: Sara Gruen Publisher: Algonquin Books # of Pages: 421 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ For sometime I had heard the most amazing reviews of this book! I got a copy in December but I wanted to wait until the new year so that I could start January off in style (you can see how far behind I … More Book Review: Water For Elephants
Author: Louise Jensen Publisher: Bookoture Number of Pages: 324 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’ll be honest here….the majority of the reason for reading this book is that it was on offer in the Kindle store. Other than that the cover intrigued me and sometimes that’s enough of a reasons to read something different, I’m a simple creature! … More Book Review: The Surrogate
Author: Amanda Prowse Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Number of Pages: 330 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Just before I left to spend 10 days laying in the sun, exploring and reading I asked my family and friends for some book recommendations. This one was recommended to me by my Mum who is a bit of an avid reader … More Book Review: The Coordinates of Loss
Author: Heather Morris Publisher: Harper Paperbacks 2018 # of Pages: 272 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (I’d give it even more if I could!) I am fascinated by books based on the war, daily lives and hardships of people, particularly in Germany. So when this book came out it appealed to me. I heard and read a range of … More Book Review: The Tattooist Of Auschwitz
Author: Lousia May Alcott Publisher: Signet Classics 2004 Number of pages: 449 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s a classic I feel like I should have read before and haven’t. Four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March, are part of a poor but loving family. With their father off to war they have only their mother left … More Book Review: Little Women
After having wondered about joining goodreads for some time, I have finally done it! I have set myself, what may seem like, a relatively modest 2018 reading challenge of 36 books which equates to 3 per month. I know it doesn’t sound like many but this will be a challenge for me! As always, I … More Goodreads
Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly feature created at The Broke and the Bookish but this month, Jan 2018, it has moved over to That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week they post a new Top Ten list that one of the bloggers will answer. Everyone is welcome to join in. I had a little dig … More Top Ten Tuesday #3: Books I meant to read in 2017
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton 1905 Rating: 4/5 A good friend gave me this book to read as its a ‘classic’. They picked it up in the Bookbarn where you can pick books up for next to nothing which is perfect when you read as many books as I do! ‘Where Sara … More Book Review: A Little Princess
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