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• Mini Pin-It Reviews #2 – Four Books From Book Bridgr

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to the second of my Mini pin-It Reviews. This time I’ll be focusing on four books that I received a while ago from the lovely folks a... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Lordly Ones by Daphne Du Maurier from the...

  

  What’s The Lordly Ones all about?:The final story in this collection tells the tale of a young, mute boy who appears to finally get the love and family he so... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense Of The Twentieth Century – J.M.R....

  

  What’s it all about?:The twentieth century should make sense. It’s the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geo-political narrative that runs... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reasons To Stay Alive – Matt Haig

  

  What’s it all about?:I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – If It Keeps On Raining by Jon McGregor from the...

  

  What’s If It Keeps On Raining all about?:If It Keeps On Raining is the story of a troubled man who is preparing for a flood by building a tree-house and a... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid Lit 2016 – Looking For JJ (Jennifer Jones #1) by Anne...

  

  What’s it all about?:Three children walked away from the cottages on the edge of town toward Berwick Waters. Later that day, only two of them came back. . . . Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – Garlic And Gauloises by Hemmie Martin

  

  What’s it all about?:Alice Calwin finds herself without purpose in life after the death of her mother, whom she’d been caring for following a stroke. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2016 – AUGUST READ – Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

  

  What’s it all about?:Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. ‘We cannot let her... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – Abe Lincoln On Acid by Brian Anthony and Bill Walker

  

  What’s it all about?:There are whispers even now that Abraham Lincoln never really died, that a voodoo spell cursed him with a terrible eternal life. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2016 BOOKS

• Talking About A Dictionary Of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton with...

  

  What’s it all about?:In the tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha and The Piano Teacher, a heart-wrenching debut novel of family, forgiveness, and the exquisite... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Love Song Of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry #2) – Rachel Joyce

  

  What’s it all about?:From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller,The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an exquisite, funny and heartrending... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mini Pin-It Reviews #1 – Four Author Requests

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to a new feature on my blog! Due to problems with a chronic illness (which I hope to explain to you in a personal post soon) I am... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Space by Kevin Brockmeier from the Collection Things...

  

  What’s Space all about?:Space is told from the perspective of a widower who is not only struggling with his own grief but trying to deal with his son’s grief... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Author Interview – Carolyn Waugh on Her Debut Novella The Oasis Of Time

  

  AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY – CAROLYN WAUGHCarolyn has worked in a laboratory for almost forty years now but in her spare time for pleasure and to de-stress she likes to... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Oasis Of Time – Carolyn Waugh

  

  What’s it all about?:Jay was a prince and he had the dark hair and dark smouldering looks of a sheikh of the desert. He was like the princes that you read... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Elephants In Captivity (Part One) by Rajesh...

  

  What’s Elephants In Captivity (Part One) all about?:The penultimate story in this collection is told from the point of view of an elephant who is looking back o... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The Girls by Lisa Jewell with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:Dark secrets, a devastating mystery and the games people play: the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up I... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sweet Caress – William Boyd

  

  What’s it all about?:When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Choke Collar: Positron, Episode Two by Margaret...

  

  What’s it all about?:In this second, steamy episode of the new Byliner Serial Positron, Margaret Atwood picks up where she left off in her dystopian dark... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• August 2016 – Real Book Month

  

  Every other month I set myself a little challenge to complete which alternates depending on the month from Chrissi Cupboard Month and Real Book Month to... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE