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BIBLIOBETH
http://www.bibliobeth.wordpress.com/
A blog about all things bookish, I review a variety of different books across multiple genres and use a "star" rating to indicate enjoyment. From time to time, I also post book-related news items i.e. shortlists for literary prizes and reviews of literary events.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1312 )
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The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair – Joël Dicker, Sam Taylor (Translator)
What’s it all about?:August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day a small New Hampshire town lost its innocence.That summer Harry Quebert fell in... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Short Stories Challenge – The Smoothest Way Is Full Of Stones by Julie Orringer...
What’s The Smoothest Way Is Full Of Stones all about?:This is a story about two young girls trying to survive the perils of divorce, death and religion whilst... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Shelter Us – Laura Nicole Diamond
What’s it all about?:Since the death of her newborn baby, lawyer-turned-stay-at-home mom Sarah Shaw has been struggling to keep it together for her law professo... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Lemon Grove – Helen Walsh
What’s it all about?:As recommended on BBC Radio 2 Book Club, a tense, sensuous and piercingly insightful story of sexual obsession.Each summer, Jenn and her... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Ruin And Rising (The Grisha #3) – Leigh Bardugo
What’s it all about?:The capital has fallen.The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.Now the nation’s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Short Stories Challenge – Bloodsport by Tom Cain from the Collection The...
What’s Bloodsport all about?:Bloodsport tells the story of a would-be assassin and his target as he plots and carries out his attack.What did I think? Read more
Posted on 06 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
My Lovely Bookshelves
Hello everyone, I’m here to introduce my lovely bookshelves. I was inspired to write this post after seeing Cleo’s bookshelves on her blog – please see her... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Author Interview – Alex Bell on Her YA Horror Novel Frozen Charlotte
ALEX BELL – A BIOGRAPHYAlex Bell was born in 1986. She always wanted to be a writer but had several different back-up plans to ensure she didn’t end up in the... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Frozen Charlotte – Alex Bell
What’s it all about?:We’re waiting for you to come and play. Dunvegan School for Girls has been closed for many years. Converted into a family home, the teacher... Read more
Posted on 04 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Short Stories Challenge – The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft from the...
What’s The Dunwich Horror all about?:The Dunwich Horror is the story of the strange Whatley family who practise black magic in their local village of Dunwich. Read more
Posted on 01 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
June 2015 – Chrissi Cupboard Month #3
It’s June. And that means…. (drumroll please) it’s Chrissi Cupboard Month!My lovely sister and fellow blogger Chrissi Reads gives me books on a regular basis,... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2015 – The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S....
What’s it all about?:When Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy took their first steps into the world behind the magic wardrobe, little do they realise what adventures... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Gretel And The Dark – Eliza Granville
What’s it all about?:A dark, distinctive and addictively compelling novel set in fin-de-siècleVienna and Nazi Germany—with a dizzying final twist.Vienna, 1899. Read more
Posted on 30 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Talking About Us by David Nicholls with Chrissi Reads
What’s it all about?:‘I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together.’‘Douglas, who in their right mind would... Read more
Posted on 28 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Short Stories Challenge – Roots And All by Brian Hodge from the Collection A Boo...
What’s Roots And All all about?:A grandmother and a sister’s death, a small community with an upsurge in the amount of meth dealers/users and traditional... Read more
Posted on 27 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Banned Books #11 What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones with Chrissi Reads
What’s it all about?:My name is Sophie. This book is about me. It tells the heart-stoppingly riveting story of my first love. And also of my second. And, okay,... Read more
Posted on 25 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Mrs. Hemingway – Naomi Wood
What’s it all about?:In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. The... Read more
Posted on 24 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Short Stories Challenge – Cellists by Kazuo Ishiguro from the Collection...
What’s Cellists all about?:In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Songs Of Willow Frost – Jamie Ford
What’s it all about?:Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, has lived at Seattle’s Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother’s listless body wa... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Summer We All Ran Away – Cassandra Parkin
What’s it all about?:When nineteen year old Davey finds himself drunk, beaten and alone, he is rescued by the oddly-assorted inhabitants of an abandoned and... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE