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• WWW Wednesday

  

  This weekly meme is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. All you have to do is answer the following three questions… • What are you currently reading?... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley

  

  When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Stacking The Shelves

  

  is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Review. This is a weekly post, usually on Sundays, where I’ll share the books that I’m adding to my shelves. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Valentina: A Hauntingly Intelligent Psychological Thriller by S.E. Lynes

  

  When  Glasgow journalist  Shona McGilvery moves with her partner  Mikey  and their baby to an idyllic cottage in rural Scotland, they believe that all that... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Five Roses by Alice Zorn

  

  Fara and her husband buy a house with a disturbing history that reawakens memories of her own family tragedy. Maddy still lives in the house, once a hippie... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Love for Lydia by H.E. Bates

  

  Lydia – shy, sheltered, beautiful and just 19 – glides into Evensford one wintry day, stirring up feeling amongst the town’s young men. But it is the young Mr... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave

  

  Growing up on her family’s Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The secret number of grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine: eight... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes

  

  Anna Walsh is the youngest of four sisters in the Walsh Irish family. The book starts with Anna having survived a freakish car accident and recovering back... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Earthbound Bones: A Psychic Seasons Novel by ReGina Welling

  

  After being tossed out of heaven, former guardian angel, Galmadriel isn’t like any other angel. Not quite human, yet not fully an angel, the best thing the... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Blue Bath by Mary Waters-Sayer

  

  The Blue Bath by Mary Waters-Sayer is the story of Kat Lind, an American living in London with her husband Jonathan and their son Will. Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Break in Case of Emergency by Jessica Winter

  

  Jen has reached her early thirties and has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when spurred by the 2008 economic crisis, she takes a poorly... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Arsenic With Austen by Katherine Bolger Hyde

  

  Arsenic With Austen is my first book by Katherine Bolger Hyde. The novel starts with the return of Emily Cavanaugh to the little town of Stony Beach, Oregon to... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie

  

  This is the story of a young boy Will and his agoraphobic mother Diane. They live in Thunder Bay, a port city on Lake Superior. Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Before The Fall by Noah Hawley

  

  On a foggy summer night, eleven people–ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter–depart Martha’s Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch

  

  Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Death Before Decaf by Caroline Fardig

  

  Death Before Decaf  by Caroline Fardig is a Java Jive Mystery novel and the first book in a series.  Juliet Langley is a fun and believable thirty-year-old... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

  

  The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George is one of those books you feel are going to be a hit. For anyone who is a book lover, books about bookshops spark at a... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Trust No One by Paul Cleave

  

  Trust No One is my first novel by acclaimed writer Paul Cleave. It seems everywhere I look around lately there are more and more novels touching on the subject... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

  

  Lauren Groff’s novel Fates and Furies is my book club’s pick for this month. It’s a book about marriage, about misconceptions of marriage and about the... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty–Audiobook Review

  

  What would happen if you were visited by your younger self and got a chance for a do-over? Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, madly in love with her husband,... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE