Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. We don’t really celebrate Halloween here in the Netherlands, but the blogosphere makes it very difficult to forget about this holiday! Not that I mind — it’s a lot of fun to read about all the Halloween-y bakes and books. This week’s topic for […]
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she’s his talented, volatile, troubled wife. To fellow mothers at the school gate, she’s a menace. To design experts, she’s a legendary architect. But to 15-year-old Bee, she is quite simply Mum. Then Bernadette disappears. And Bee’s search for her mother reveals an extraordinary woman […]
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is a good one! Top ten places books have made me want to visit, both fictional or real. The setting of a story is usually quite important, and sometimes reading about a certain place can just make you long to be/go […]
A while ago, Jaclyn from Covered in Flour wrote a great post about reading choices and owning them. She mentioned an infamous article that said that adults who read YA novels should be ashamed of themselves, which prompted her to write a post about all of the reading choices she won’t apologise for. I really […]
It is Harry Potter’s sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Voldemort’s sinister forces amass and a spirit of gloom and fear sweeps the land, it becomes more and more clear to Harry that he will soon have to confront his destiny. But is he up to the challenges ahead of him? […]
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I am once again a day late with my Top Ten Tuesday. Oops! Even though I had made the list in advance, I didn’t write the actual post yesterday. I still wanted to do so, though, so here it is! My top ten books that were […]
Sara Fitzgerald’s daughter Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara knows she will do anything — whatever it takes — to save her child. Then the test results come back time and again to show that no one […]
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is top ten books on my Fall TBR list. Some of the books on this list were in my top ten books that will be in my beach bag this Summer as well, since I didn’t get around to reading all […]
The other day Brittany from The Book Addict’s Guide did a book tag that seemed like a lot of fun to do. I always like book tags, so let’s give the Seven Deadly Sins Book Tag a go! Greed What is your most inexpensive book? What is your most expensive book? My most inexpensive books, for […]
John Quinn, an investigative journalist on England’s biggest-selling and most notorious tabloid newspaper, is about to write the story of his life — a scandalous exposé of one of the country’s most powerful men. But the story dies when Lorna Thomas, the kiss in his kiss-and-tell, kills herself on a quiet country road. For six […]