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• The Gift of Rain – Tan Twan Eng

  

  What’s it all about?:“The Gift of Rain spans decades as it takes readers from the final days of the Chinese emperors to the dying era of the British Empire,... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Story Challenge – The Festival by H.P. Lovecraft from the Collection The...

  

  What’s The Festival all about?:The Festival is the second story in this volume of sixty-seven by celebrated horror and occult writer H.P. Lovecraft. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2014 – FEBRUARY READ – Through The Looking Glass...

  

  What’s it all about?:In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastical adventure story for the young daughter... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Foreign Fruit – Jojo Moyes

  

  What’s it all about?:Merham is a well-ordered 1950s seaside town – the kind of town in which everyone knows their place (and those who don’t are promptly put... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #32

  

  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 26 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Charcloth, Firesteel and Flint by Caitlin R. Kiernan...

  

  What’s Charcloth, Firesteel and Flint all about?:Many of us grew up on The Pan Book of Horror Stories and its later incarnations, Dark Voices and Dark Terrors... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Talking About The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult with Chrissi

  

  What’s it all about?:Sage Singer befriends an old man who’s particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone’s favorite retired teacher and... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Storm and Stone – Joss Stirling

  

  What’s it all about?:Behind the ivy-clad walls of an exclusive boarding school, lurks a sinister web of corruption, scandal, and conspiracy. American student... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #31

  

  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 19 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Who Framed Klaris Cliff? – Nikki Sheehan

  

  What’s it all about?:People used to call them ‘friends’ and said how they were good for your brain. And then a day came when all that changed . . . when they... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Snow White Must Die – Nele Neuhaus

  

  What’s it all about?:On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman ha... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Come Rain Or Come Shine by Kazuo Ishiguro from the...

  

  What’s Come Rain Or Come Shine all about?:In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty

  

  What’s it all about?:From the author of the critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a breakout new novel about the secrets husbands and wives keep from eac... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #30

  

  Hello everyone, sorry I’m a bit late in getting this up, but it’s been a bit of a rough week. But welcome to another WWW Wednesday, and thanks as ever to MizB... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #2) – Michelle Hodkin

  

  What’s it all about?:Mara Dyer knows she isn’t crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow,... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short Stories Challenge – Cold, Cold Heart by Karin Slaughter (stand-alone)

  

  What’s it all about?:A chilling Valentine digital short story from the No.1 bestselling author of the Will Trent series.Pam is a fifty-two-year-old teacher who... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• WWW Wednesday #29

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to another WWW Wednesday! Thanks as ever to MizB over at Should Be Reading for hosting.To join in you need to answer 3... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Secret History – Donna Tartt

  

  What’s it all about?:Richard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars,... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Long Weekend, A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939 by Robert Graves...

  

  What’s it all about?:A classic social history by two distinguished writers who lived through the time. “The long week-end” is the authors’ evocative phrase for... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2014 – JANUARY READ – Aesop’s Fables by Aesop

  

  What’s it all about?:The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE