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Addition: Audiobook Genre: Fantasy Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: A shivering of worlds. Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, […]
Addition: E-book Genre: Fiction, legal-thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes matters into his hands. For ten […]
Books 21-25 in 2015 are: 21. Erica James – The Dandelion Years Rating: 3 out of 5 This is one of my favourite types of books, by one of my favourite authors. I really enjoy Erica James novels, and this one was set in both the present day and during WW2. I love books with […]
As I am behind in posting updates about the books I have read (see previous post!) I have decided to attempt to do block updates to catch up. Books 16-20 in 2015 were: 16. Harriet Evans – A Place For Us Rating: 3 out of 5 I hadn’t read a Harriet Evans novel in a […]
I’m sorry I have been quiet. Six weeks ago I gave birth to our second child (our first daughter, so exciting!), so I haven’t had time to post on here. I doubt I will complete my TBR challenge, but I am on course to finish my Goodreads challenge. You can see what books I have […]
Addition: E-book Genre: Christian, non-fiction Rating: 2 out of 5 Synopsis: A practical guide to parenting that starts with the differences that the Gospel makes in the lives of those doing the parenting – most Christian books ignore this aspect. I decided to read this book as a group of Mum’s from my local church […]
Addition: Hardback Genre: Fiction Rating: 3 out of 5 Synopsis: Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch–“Scout”–returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about […]
Addition: E-book Genre: Young adult Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: What if compassion was not an emotion that evoked a response, but was a prize to be won? 57142 has only ever known the reality of Outside, the place where he has to glean a lonely existence from the discarded rubbish of Tropolis. Everything […]
Addition: Hardback Genre: Young adult Rating: 3 out of 5 Synopsis: Still haunted by nightmares of her mother’s death, fifteen-year-old Sienna Jones reluctantly travels to Indonesia with her father’s relief team to help tsunami orphans with their post traumatic stress disorder-something Sienna knows a lot about. Since her mother’s plane went missing over the Indian […]
2015 Reading Book 15 – 92 Pacific Boulevard by Debbie Macomber Synopsis: Dear Reader, I’m not much of a letter writer. As the sheriff here, I’m used to writing incident reports, not chatty letters. But my daughter, Megan–who’ll be making me a grandfather soon–told me I had to do this. So here goes. I’ll tell […]