Category Archives: Fiction
Silas Marner by George Eliot
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Addition: Illustrated e-book Genre: Classics Rating: 3 out of 5 Synopsis: Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned [...]
Share on FacebookSwitched by Amanda Hocking
THIS REVIEW CONTAINTS SPOILERS! Addition: Review paperback Genre: Young adult, fantasy Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: When Wendy Everly was six-years-old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. It isn’t until eleven years later that Wendy finds out her mother might’ve been telling the truth. With the help [...]
Share on FacebookA Perfect Proposal by Katie Fforde
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Kindle e-book Genre: Chick-lit Rating: 4 out 5 Synopsis: Sophie Apperly’s family has never taken her seriously. Fiercely academic, they see her more practical skills as frivolous whilst constantly taking advantage of her. So when her best friend Milly invites her over to New York, she jumps at the chance. [...]
Share on FacebookThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Paperback, borrowed from friend Genre: Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their [...]
Share on FacebookA Gathering Storm by Rachel Hore
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Paperback from the library Genre: Historal Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: Photographer Lucy Cardwell has recently lost her troubled father, Tom. While sifting through his papers, she finds he’d been researching an uncle she never knew he’d had. Intrigued, she visits her father’s childhood home, the once beautiful [...]
Share on FacebookRoom by Emma Donoghue
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Hardback library book Genre: Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he [...]
Share on FacebookRichard and Judy’s 100 Books of the Decade
Whilst looking for Richard and Judy’s Autumn Reads I came across this list. I’m interested to see what I have read and what you have read. Those in blue I’ve read: A Place of Secrets Rachel Hore Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years Townsend, Sue Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Mo [...]
Share on FacebookRichard and Judy’s Autumn Reads 2011
I always look out for the Richard and Judy reading list and thought I would post this season’s reads: The End of Everything by Megan Abbott A close-knit street, the clink of glass on glass, summer heat. Two girls on the brink of adolescence, throwing cartwheels on the grass. Two girls who tell each other [...]
Share on FacebookTurn in the Road by Debbie Macomber
Addition: E-book, review copy from NetGalley Genre: Chick-lit Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: In the middle of the year, in the middle of her life, Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth. They’re driving to Florida for Ruth’s 50th high-school reunion. A longtime widow, Ruth would [...]
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