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

  

  What’s it all about?:From Karin Slaughter comes a fast and furious tale in which no one is quite who they seem. This electrifying eBook novella featuring Will... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness

  

  What’s it all about?:The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books #5 – Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden with Chrissi Reads and...

  

  What’s it all about?:“If you don’t put that ring on this minute, I’m going to take it back,” Annie whispered in my ear. She leaned back, looking at me, her hand... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA – Brenda Maddox

  

  What’s it all about?:Our dark lady is leaving us next week; on the 7th of March, 1953 Maurice Wilkins of King’s College, London, wrote to Francis Crick at the... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Fly, and Its Effect Upon Mr Bodley by Michel...

  

  What’s The Fly, and Its Effect upon Mr Bodley all about?:Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel The Crimson Petal and the White, conjuring... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Martian – Andy Weir

  

  What’s it all about?:Apollo 13 meets Cast Away in this grippingly detailed, brilliantly ingenious man-vs-nature survival thriller, set on the surface of Mars. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Kindred – Octavia E. Butler

  

  What’s it all about?:Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Partial Eclipse by Graham Joyce from the Collection...

  

  2What’s Partial Eclipse all about?:Partial Eclipse is a story about aliens – but not as we know them, and about the primal importance of dreaming.What did I... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi’s Points of View on Point Horror: #1 Thirteen Tales of Horror...

  

  Happy Halloween everyone! Every so often Chrissi and I will be revisiting Point Horror, a series that we loved as young adults. On each of our blogs, we will... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2014 – OCTOBER READ – Anne Of Green Gables by L.M....

  

  What’s it all about?:“Matthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do. He could not tell this child with the... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

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

  

  What’s The Pool all about?:Staying at their grandparents during the holidays are two children, Deborah and Roger, who love to play in the garden of their... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Season To Taste Or How To Eat Your Husband – Natalie Young

  

  What’s it all about?:Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving… Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books #4 – Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks with Chrissi Reads and Luna’s...

  

  What’s it all about?:Alice could be anyone – she could be someone you know, or someone you love – and Alice is in trouble …Being fifteen is hard, but Alice seem... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Looking Up Vagina by Jon McGregor from the Collection...

  

  What’s Looking Up Vagina all about?:Looking Up Vagina is the story of a teenage boy who has just begun puberty and how he copes with the inevitable teenage angs... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Private Blog of Joe Cowley – Ben Davis

  

  What’s it all about?:The brilliantly funny and cringe-worthy secret blog of 14-year-old Joe Cowley (wannabe comic artist and self-confessed repeller of... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Vanishing Witch – Karen Maitland

  

  What’s it all about?:The Vanishing Witch by Karen Maitland, author of the hugely popular Company of Liars will thrill fans of CJ Sansom and Kate Mosse with its... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – A Day In The Life Of Half Of Rumpelstiltskin by Kevin...

  

  What’s it all about?:This is the story of a fairy tale character, Rumpelstiltskin with a bit of a difference – there is only half of him.What did I think? Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Battle Royale – Koushun Takami

  

  What’s it all about?:Koushun Takami’s notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Challenge: Short Stories October to December

  

  It’s that time again short story fans! This is what I’ll be reading short story wise from now until the end of 2014.Week beginning 6th October Looking Up... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

  

  What’s it all about?:Amir is the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, a member of the ruling caste of Pashums. Hassan, his servant and constant companion, is a... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE