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The Book Lover's Boudoir
http://thebookloversboudoir.wordpress.com/
A book review website that covers all genres including horror, literary and fantasy. E-books, paper backs and hard backs are reviewed. Books are rated on a scale of 1-5 stars.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4047 )
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The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award Shortlist Collection 2020
This year's shortlist of six exceptional stories each takes the listener on an intense and gripping journey into the human heart. With poise, precision, and a... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#TheJaggedEdge by @AJFrazer_author
An ex-war correspondent - once lauded - desperate to find his old edge. And the countdown to the end of the world as we know it begins. The harrowing loss of a... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#Ghosts by @dollyalderton
Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max,... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Hadley & Grace by @SuzanneRedfearn
Needing to escape her abusive marriage, Hadley flees with her two kids, knowing it might be her only chance. A woman who can't even kill a spider, Hadley soon... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Sleeping and the Dead by @AnnCleeves
Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling through the missing persons files, he... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#WhatMothersWithhold by #ElizabethKropf
The poems of "what mothers withhold" are songs of brokenness and hope in a mother's voice, poems of the body in its fierceness and failings. Elizabeth Kropf... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#ShineYourIcyCrown by @ladybookmad
"Make them rue the day they underestimated you." This is a story about not letting society dictate the limits of your potential. it's time to take back your... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Elephant Vanishes by @harukimurakami_
When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#AnAmericaninParis by @SiobhanCurham
Walking through Montmartre that morning was like the eerie calm right before a storm. The roads were deserted. We carried on, arm in arm, and then finally, we... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Untamed by @aghowardwrites
A post- Ensnared collection of three stories-available in both print and e-versions. Alyssa Gardner went down the rabbit hole and took control of her destiny.... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Tent by @MargaretAtwood
One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has written a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her previous... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
#TheresOnlyOneDannyGarvey by @dfr10
Danny Garvey was a sixteen-year old footballing prodigy. Professional clubs clamoured to sign him, and a glittering future beckoned. And yet, his early promise... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
2020 On The Book Lover’s Boudoir
Skip to content I read 840 books in 2020. 2020 factoids: How Much I Read / Listened 229,074 pages read Burned through 429 hours 44 minutes of... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
December 2020 Round-Up on the Book Lover’s Boudoir
Skip to content I read 49 books in December. December factoids: How Much I Read / Listened 11,355 pages read Burned through 13 hours 4 minutes of... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Apathy Is Out by Seán Ó Ríordáin
Sean O Riordain (1916-77) was the most important and most influential Irish-language poet of modern times. He revitalised poetry in Irish, combining the world o... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Mother, Nature by @PoetLyall
Aoife Lyall's debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood, from ante-natal complications and th... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The House by the Sea by Louise Douglas
When Edie's mother-in-law, Anna DeLuca, dies, she is relieved. Edie blames Anna for the accident that destroyed her family. So, when her will lures Edie to... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Killing Commendatore by @harukimurakami_
'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian Whe... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Betrayal of Trust by @susanhillwriter
Heavy rain falls on Lafferton. As the rainwater slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are revealed. It doesn't take long to identify the remain... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Ask No Questions by @ClaireAllan
Twenty-five years ago, on Halloween night, eight-year-old Kelly Doherty went missing while out trick or treating with friends. Her body was found three days... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE