The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Love isn’t an exact science — but no one told Don Tillman. A handsome thirty-nine-year-old geneticist, Don’s never had a second date. So he devises The Wife Project, a scientific test to find the perfect partner. Enter Rosie — ‘the world’s most incompatible woman’ — throwing Don’s safe, ordered life into chaos. Just what is this […]

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Top Ten Books I Really Want To Read But Don’t Own Yet

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. When I saw this week’s topic the first thing I thought was “oh, don’t get me started!”. I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only book blogger out there thinking that! My TBR list is huge (I don’t have a physical list, but the one […]

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Usually when writing book reviews, I give you guys the summary from the back of (my edition of) the book. That won’t really work for The Catcher in the Rye though, as the back of my edition is the same as the front. Quite empty. I went to look what Goodreads has to say about the […]

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The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness

The extraordinary happens every day… One night, George Duncan — decent man, a good man — is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, […]

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Top Ten Characters I Would Want With Me On A Deserted Island

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is top ten characters I would want with me on a deserted island, and it took me a looong time to come up with ten characters. You see, I think ten people is quite a lot to have with you in such […]

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forces to appear in a live TV show called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister’s place in the games, she sees it as a death […]

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Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George

When Deborah St James seeks refuge from the rain and her own sadness in the National Gallery, she does not expect to find herself confessing to an Anglican priest, Robin Sage. Still less to be doing so as they contemplate Leonardo’s cartoon of the Virgin and Child with St Anne, wondering why — yet again […]

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Top Ten Classics I Want To Read

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I know it’s technically already Wednesday, but I really wanted to participate in this week’s Top Ten Tuesday (and didn’t have the time yesterday), so here is my top ten! This week’s topic was top ten classics I want to read. I had a lot […]

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Sundays in Bed With…

Sundays in Bed With is hosted by Midnight Book Girl. I haven’t been feeling very well for the last couple of days, so I decided to alter my plans of trying to make macarons today. Probably not the best thing to do for the first time when your muscles are aching! I am planning on […]

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250 Followers! The Book Blogger Test

A few days ago Books Baking and Blogging reached the milestone of 250 followers! On top of that, the Facebook page for my blog reached 50 likes about a day later. I am having so much fun with this blog since I started it in October last year, and I’m really happy and grateful that […]

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