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• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2014 – APRIL READ – The Magician’s Nephew by C.S....

  

  What’s it all about?:When Digory and Polly are tricked by Digory’s peculiar Uncle Andrew into becoming part of an experiment, they set off on the adventure of... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The One Plus One – Jojo Moyes

  

  What’s it all about?:One single mumWith two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best day after day. But it’s hard on your own. And sometimes you take... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – A Case Of Identity by Arthur Conan Doyle from the...

  

  What’s A Case of Identity all about?:Miss Mary Sutherland, angry and beside herself with feelings of loss, asks Sherlock Holmes to solve the sudden, mysterious... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Dangerous Girls – Abigail Haas

  

  What’s it all about?:It’s Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other close friends are off to a debaucherous... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Fortune Hunter – Daisy Goodwin

  

  What’s it all about?:In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic and intelligent,... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #38

  

  Welcome to another WWW Wednesday, and thanks as ever to MizB for hosting. I’ve had a good reading week again this Wednesday and celebrated my birthday on... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979 by...

  

  What’s The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979 all about?:From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia! Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The White Princess – Philippa Gregory

  

  What’s it all about?:The haunting story of the mother of the Tudors, Elizabeth of York, wife to Henry VII.Beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Visit to Storytellers, Inc.

  

  The story begins….Last weekend, my sister and fellow blogger Chrissi Reads went on a bookish trip to St Annes-on-the-Sea near Blackpool to visit our blogger... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About A Commonplace Killing by Siân Busby with Chrissi

  

  What’s it all about?:On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a womans body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Room Full of Chocolate – Jane Elson

  

  What’s it all about?:Grace’s fun loving Mum has found a lump. Her north London world of sleepovers, tap dancing and playing the clarinet fall apart when she is... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #37

  

  Welcome to another WWW Wednesday, and thanks as ever to MizB for hosting. This week hasn’t been a busy one for me blog posting wise as I have been in Blackpool... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Jamila by Randy Taguchi from the Collection Fujisan

  

  What’s Jamila all about?:Remaining constant even as it fades in and out of view is the great Mount Fuji, one of Japan’s Three Holy Mountains. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #36

  

  Welcome to another WWW Wednesday, and thanks as ever to MizB for hosting. I’ve got a great batch of books this week and can’t wait to tell you all about... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Phantom of The Opera – Gaston Leroux

  

  What’s it all about?:The Phantom of the Opera was first published as a serialisation in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910.The Phantom of... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fortunate – Andrew J.H. Sharp

  

  What’s it all about?:Beth Jenkins – semi-bereaved wife, rootless doctor – runs away from home at the age of twenty-eight and a half and becomes a heroine of a... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Confessions of Two Bibliophiles #5

  

  CHAPTER FIVE – CHICK LIT: For or Against?Beth,I’ve been analysing my reading recently and I’ve come to the conclusion that I just don’t enjoy chick-lit as much... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Of Mothers And Little People by Lucy Wood from the...

  

  What’s Of Mothers and Little People all about?:In these stories, Cornish folklore slips into everyday life. Hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #35

  

  Welcome to another WWW Wednesday, and thanks as ever to MizB for hosting.To join in you need to answer 3 questions..•What are you currently reading?•What did yo... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wither (The Chemical Garden #1) – Lauren DeStefano

  

  What’s it all about?:By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE