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• Short Stories Challenge – We Were Just Driving Around by Jon McGregor from the...

  

  What’s We Were Just Driving Around all about?:This story focuses on a group of lively teenagers in a car, being young, enjoying themselves and talking about... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Horse Dancer – Jojo Moyes

  

  What’s it all about?:Sarah’s grandfather was a horseman of rare talent – only the exceptional are allowed into France’s elite riding academy, Le Cadre Noir. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• British Books Challenge 2015 – The Round Up

  

  2015 was my third year of participating in the British Books Challenge and I’m absolutely loving finding new British authors and discovering old ones too. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books – The Titles For 2016 Revealed!

  

  Happy New Year everyone! Banned Books is another challenge I love to do with my sister and fellow blogger Chrissi Reads. We’ve now chosen our titles for 2016... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Frost Hollow Hall – Emma Carroll

  

  What’s it all about?:‘The gates to Frost Hollow Hall loomed before us. They were great tall things, the ironwork all twisted leaves and queer-looking flowers.... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Jesus Stories by Kevin Brockmeier from the...

  

  What’s The Jesus Stories all about?:This short story takes the form of a report about a religious group who are spreading the stories of Jesus in a bid to... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit – The Titles For 2016 Revealed!

  

  Image from http://uweb.cas.usf.edu/~dslone/Pathfinders/weber.htmWelcome 2016! Welcome to a new year of Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2015 – The Round Up

  

  Hi everyone and welcome to my round up post where Chrissi and I talk about our highlights (and lowlights!) of Kid-Lit 2015. We had some fantastic books on the... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2015 – DECEMBER READ – The Lightning Thief (Percy...

  

  What’s it all about?:Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can’t seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Secret Life Of Sleep – Kat Duff

  

  What’s it all about?:What makes us cross the line from waking to slumber? According to Harvard scientists it’s our ‘sleep switch’ – a cluster of neurons in the... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Bibhutibhushan Malik’s Final Storyboard by Rajesh...

  

  What’s Bibhutibhushan Malik’s Final Storyboard all about?:Bibhutibhushan is an art director working for a now very famous Indian film director but he has... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books #18 Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes

  

  What’s it all about?:Sometimes life can change in an instantMartha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends, but they weren’t. Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Well – Catherine Chanter

  

  What’s it all about?:From the winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, a brilliantly haunting and suspenseful debut set in modern-day Britain where water is... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson

  

  What’s it all about?:Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she doesn’t even know... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• December 2015 – Chrissi Cupboard Month #4

  

  It’s December. And that means…. (drumroll please) it’s Chrissi Cupboard Month!My lovely sister and fellow blogger Chrissi Reads gives me books on a regular... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Vuotjärvi by Sarah Hall from the Collection The...

  

  What’s Vuotjärvi all about?:In the final short story of this collection, the serenity of a Finnish lake turns sinister when a woman’s lover does not return... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – The Worlds Traveler (The Hidden Gifted #2) by M.L. Roble

  

  What’s it all about?:Life on the run from madman Martin Reimer gets in the way of everything.For fourteen-year-old Phillip, it has meant having to stay hidden,... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Magician’s Doll (The Hidden Gifted #1) – M.L. Roble

  

  What’s it all about?:Twelve-year-old Natalie has a lot to handle this year, what with the bullying and the sudden development of her rather unusual abilities. Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Adventure Of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan...

  

  What’s The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle all about?:It is Christmas and the disappearance of a precious jewel, along with a rise in the popularity of geese (o... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – A Wicked Old Woman by Ravinder Randhawa

  

  I am delighted to be taking part in a blog tour for acclaimed author Ravinder Randhawa’s new novel, A Wicked Old Woman, organised by the lovely Faye, a freelanc... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE