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• October 2015 – Book Bridgr/NetGalley/Kindle/ARC Month

  

  I can’t believe how fast this year is going! It’s time for a regular feature now on my blog and it involves me doing some much needed catch up with review copie... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit – SEPTEMBER READ – Watership Down by Richard Adams

  

  What’s it all about?:This stirring tale of courage and survival against the odds has become one of the best-loved animal adventures of all time.‘We’ve got to... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books #15 – Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

  

  What’s it all about?:The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world.Drifters in search of work, George and his simpl... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Tell Me I’ll See You Again by Dennis Etchison from...

  

  What’s Tell Me I’ll See You Again all about?:Tell Me I’ll See You Again explores the strange things that keep happening to a young boy who is struggling to... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• More Than This – Patrick Ness

  

  What’s it all about?:A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies.Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive.How can this be? An... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Taxidermist’s Daughter – Kate Mosse

  

  What’s it all about?:The clock strikes twelve. Beneath the wind and the remorseless tolling of the bell, no one can hear the scream…1912. A Sussex churchyard. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Mistletoe Bride by Kate Mosse from the Collection...

  

  What’s The Mistletoe Bride all about?:The Mistletoe Bride is the first story in this collection and is told from the point of view of the spirit of a young woma... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Gingerbread – Robert Dinsdale

  

  What’s it all about?:Fairy tale and history, wilderness and civilisation collide in this brilliant and magical new novel from the author of Little Exiles. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 1Q84 (1Q84 #1-2) – Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator)

  

  What’s it all about?:The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzlin... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Necessary Women by Karin Slaughter (stand-alone)

  

  What’s Necessary Women all about?:She was fourteen when she watched mother die. With her mother gone, her father told her she had to be the woman of the house.... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• This Fragile Life – Kate Hewitt

  

  What’s it all about?:You love your best friend. You trust her with your life. But could you give her the most precious gift of all?Alex’s life is a mess. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Daddy-Long-Legs – Jean Webster

  

  What’s it all about?:When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Medicine by Michel Faber from the Collection The Apple...

  

  What’s Medicine all about?:Medicine is a short story which focuses on William Rackham, more specifically how far he has fallen since his days with heroine... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Extremes: Life, Death And The Limits Of The Human Body – Kevin Fong

  

  What’s it all about?:Drawing on his own experiences in trauma surgery as an anaesthetist and intensive care expert, ‘Extremes’ is Kevin Fong’s account of the wa... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Night Music – Jojo Moyes

  

  What’s it all about?:The Spanish House is known to locals as an architectural folly, and it is now nearly derelict to boot. When its reclusive owner dies... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Candia by Graham Joyce from the Collection Tales For...

  

  What’s Candia all about?:A young man on holiday in Candia spies a former colleague outside a bar and after the two re-connect our narrator finds out the true... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About A Song For Issy Bradley by Carys Bray with Chrissi Reads

  

  What’s it all about?:Sometimes however much you love someone, you can’t understand them. Ian used to think that his life had been disappointingly easy,... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Second Young Adult Literary Convention (YALC) 2015

  

  Apologies for getting this post up a bit late but here’s what happened when my sister Chrissi Reads and I visited YALC for the second year! Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Menace by Daphne Du Maurier from the Collection Th...

  

  What’s The Menace all about?:The Menace introduces us to Barry Jeans, a hugely popular Hollywood actor who loses some of his life force (quite literally) after... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Savage Lane – Jason Starr

  

  What’s it all about?:EVERY TOWN HAS ITS SECRETSIn Savage Lane, Jason Starr has crafted a searing tale of suspense that proves the adage: Love thy neighbor, but... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE