March has been a VERY weird month for me, started well I went on holiday with my mum, ended terribly as I found out my boyfriend of 3 years had been cheating on me. So yeah...a massive huge shock and rollercoaster of emotions this month. On holiday I blasted through 6 books, when I found … Continue reading Monthly Wrap Up – March 2019
Hello everyone! Five For Friday is back! So sorry I missed last week, I think it's the only Friday I have EVER missed. But I have had a really bad few weeks so just not had the time or energy to make up posts. But I am back!! This week I am focussing on "Bad … Continue reading Five For Friday – Bad Moms
Eleanor & Park By Rainbow Rowell St Martin's Press Rating: **** Synopsis: Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor. Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for … Continue reading Book Review – Eleanor & Park
Whistle In The Dark Emma Healey Penguin Books Rating: *** Synopsis: Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent's worst nightmare. Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana who was found bloodied, bruised and disorientated after going missing for four days during a mother daughter vacation … Continue reading Book Review – Whistle In The Dark
Hello everyone! Welcome to Five For Friday this week I have chosen 5x of my favourite Reece Witherspoon Book Club picks. Reece has an online book club called Hello Sunshine and I have been following it for a while now. What I love about her picks is that she chooses female only authors and in … Continue reading Five For Friday – Reece Witherspoon Book Club Picks
Walking The Nile By Levison Wood Simon & Schuster Rating: **** Synopsis: Former soldier Levison Wood embarks on one of the last great explorations and attempts to conquer one of the world's last firsts. His epic journey of almost 4,000 miles on foot along the world's longest river will go down in the history of … Continue reading Book Review – Walking The Nile
The Piano Tuner By Daniel Mason Picador Classic Rating: *** Synopsis: On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erhard grand piano. … Continue reading Book Review – The Piano Tuner
Hello everyone! Welcome to Five For Friday yesterday was World Book Day so to celebrate I am going to give you my top 5x amazing and creative Little Free Libraries. Little Free Library is a non-profit organisation that inspires the love of reading, community spirit and sparks creativity by inspiring people to do book exchanges … Continue reading Five For Friday – Little Free Libraries
Last month I went to visit my lovely friend Vicky who has recently moved to East Dulwich in London. She lives on the bustling high-street which is full of amazing independent shops, from cheese mongers, butchers and cafes to furniture stores and jewellers. There were so many wonderful places on the street. She wanted to … Continue reading Brunching at Tart in East Dulwich
As most of you will know, the Women's Prize for Fiction Long List was announced today. This is a prestigious annual book award celebrating and honouring women's fiction. Founded in 1996 the prize was set up to celebrate originality, accessibility and excellence in writing by women and to connect world class writers with readers everywhere. … Continue reading Discussing the books from The Women’s Fiction Prize – Long List
