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• #BookadayUK July 2014 -week Three Round-up

  

  Week three! Hello! The topics for July 2014 July 14th – For Bastille Day, your favourite novel about or set in France Ok, so the author had to gently remind me... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Judge a Cover Friday! The Accidental – Ali Smith

  

  This was a book I bought based purely on the cover. At the time I was going through an ill-advised retro-hippy stage and I wanted everything about the prostate... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What is Your Earliest Memory?

  

  So yesterday I posted about writing more, and how I had been using writingexercises.co.uk for prompts and inspiration. I also said that I would post the piece... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Getting My Write on

  

  …that, and inaction. As I only work part-time at the moment I have forced myself, kicking and screaming, to pick up my writing in a serious, and regular,... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #BookadayUK July 2014 – Week Two Round-up!

  

  The topics for July 2014 Hello Week Two! I am in you! July 7th – Most chocolately novel -it’s National Chocolate Day! – I’ve literally got nothing for you! Nope... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Why I Don’t Make Reading Lists

  

  A few recent(ish) acquisitions… The book blog world is currently abuzz with people publishing their Summer Reads lists. I won’t be doing this. I am rubbish at... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How to Build a Girl – Caitlin Moran

  

  The Blurb: It’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there’s no point in being Johanna anymore and... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #BookadayUK July 2014 – Week One Round-up!

  

  The topics for July 2014 So this month, the #BookadayUK baton has been handed from Borough Press to Doubleday, and as I was so rubbish at keeping up with last... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Landline – Rainbow Rowell

  

  I hate the word “gushing”. Its something I imagine coming up frequently on YouP*rn’s “Most Searched” list. But eff it. I am going to be gushing about this book... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Friendship – Emily Gould

  

  The Blurb: Bev Tunney is stuck in circumstances that would have barely passed for New York bohemian in her mid-twenties: temping, living in a shared house,... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• So This Happened – Very Inspiring Blog Award

  

  Do you ever have blog days where you just wonder why you bother? You spend an hour, maybe two, pouring your heart into a review only to press “publish” and get ... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Meatspace – Nikesh Shukla

  

  God this is a tricky one! There was so much I enjoyed about this but also so much that drove me mad. The latter, I think, was sort of the point, but this stuff... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• We Are Called to Rise – Laura McBride

  

  The Blurb: An immigrant boy whose family is struggling to assimilate. A middle-aged housewife coping with an imploding marriage and a troubled son. A social... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Vulgar Things – Lee Rourke

  

  The Blurb: Jon Michaels – a divorced, disinterested and fatigued editor living a nondescript life in North London – receives a sudden phone call from his... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Rise and Fall of Great Powers – Tom Rachman

  

  This is one of those books whose star rating on Goodreads I swithered over. I went for 3, but it could be 4, or perhaps a 3.5. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• We Were Liars – E. Lockhart

  

  A pretty accurate depiction of my reaction to page 5 can be seen in the bottom picture. I was tempted to use this book as the basis for my shortest ever book... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lost in the Field

  

  I would usually have something blog related to do around this time each week, but like a tool I have decided to read two rather long books at the same time. As ... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Judge a Cover Friday – Glow by Ned Beauman

  

  Since I started doing my little Judge a Cover posts on Fridays, I have anticipated a book coming along that had a great cover but rather blah innards. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Man Who Couldn’t Stop – David Adam

  

  OCD, and the true story of a life lost in thought A couple of weeks ago I asked my friends: “Do you ever get the urge to, like, do things? Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Judge a Cover Friday! Wonder Boys – Michael Chabon

  

  This week, thanks to my friend Emma and her unashamed shoving of me in the direction of this year’s Grazia First Chapter Competition , I have mostly been... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE