Book Reviews

I didn’t dislike this, but I’m not sure I loved it either. I’m still processing my thoughts. Julie and Julia is the memoir of a woman named Julie Powell who decides that she would attempt to cook every recipe from Julia Child’s ‘Mastering the Art […]

“When Guinevere Beck strides into the bookshop where Joe works, he is instantly smitten. And so beings an attraction that quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences” Let me start off with the word “smitten”. Smitten?? Smitten sounds like a word used in a […]

For a book called “The Big Sleep” this has a lot happening and it’s a struggle to figure out where to start. I suppose we’ll start off with Phillip Marlowe, the private detective with questionable morals yet stone principles. It started out relatively simple. General […]

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” A Christmas Carol.  An absolute classic and essential for every Christmas. Although, admittedly this is the first time I’ve read it and my previous experiences have been through various movie adaptations […]

“Your now is not your forever” “Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.” So, I have a confession. Turtles All the Way Down is my first ever John Green book. I remember when The […]

“Action is the cause of motivation” I was out for drinks with friends from work and one recommended to me that I read this book, and then they brought it into work for me to read. I can’t imagine why he would think I need […]

“Don’t do it. Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again” The Haunting of Hill House follows Eleanor Vance. Eleanor has cared for […]

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Nineteen Eighty-Four follows a man named Winston Smith who works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth. Winston’s job is to ensure that whatever party propaganda latest to headline is reflected in every documented […]

“I think my reputation will look after itself,” Holmes said. “If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.” First and foremost, this is certainly considerably darker than anything I’ve read from […]

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” I think there’s an assumption that because something is a ‘classic’ then the world and his wife must know what it’s about. To be honest I wasn’t sure what to […]

“It’s amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.” I never read Eragon as a child, so when the opportunity rose to do so now I decided I would finally […]

“I want to be buried in a cardboard coffin” Diana Cowper enters a funeral parlour to plan her funeral. Six hours later she is found dead. This story follows Daniel Hawthorne, an investigator who hires author, Anthony Horowitz to follow him throughout the investigation and […]

“THE SERIAL KILLER ISN’T ON TRIAL. HE’S ON THE JURY…” I must say, that’s one way to grab a girls attention! This is my first read by Steve Cavanagh and, if Thirteen is anything to go by, it most certainly won’t be my last. Thirteen […]

“Sure I do,” countered Lila cheerfully. “There’s Dull London, Kell London, Creepy London, and Dead London,” she recited, ticking them off on her fingers. “See? I’m a fast learner.” I’ve heard a lot of people talk about this book and I have one thing to […]

I am a dreamer. I’ve always been a dreamer. That’s not to say that I don’t go for what I want when I want it, and sometimes I am successful. Sometimes I’m not. Sometimes I’m successful for a while, and then I slip. The tagline […]

2018 is getting closer and closer. Time for another round of failed resolutions, right? Not according to Shelley Wilson. Shelley Wilson embarked on a year long mission: To set 12 goals for the New Year and, by the following year, completely change her life. Shelley […]

“What begins as a game of hide-and-seek quickly turns into a huge adventure when Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy walk through the wardrobe and into Narnia. There they find a world frozen into eternal winter by the evil White Witch. Narnia, once filled with all […]

“I don’t entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances. Molly Pekin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her […]

“‘Death has to happen. That’s what being’ alive is all about. You’re alive, and then you’re dead. It can’t stop happening.’ But it can. And it has. Death is missing – presumed … er … gone (and on a little farm far, far away, a […]

So I’ve decided to do this very last minute. I mean, is it really me if it isn’t last minute? Yesterday I posted my December TBR and said that I have to reach 10 books in order to complete my GoodReads challenge. I was hesitant […]