Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is the top ten books on my Spring to be read list. I probably won’t get to all of these in Spring, but I’m going to try my best! Most of these have been waiting on my shelves for quite a […]
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Since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre has never ceased to be one of the most widely read of English novels. Transmuted by the rare Brontë imagination, the romance of Jane and Rochester takes on a strange and unforgettable atmosphere that lifts it above the level of mere melodrama. But Charlotte Brontë intended more. She portrayed […]
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She’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway “accident” leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge that she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Wow, look at me doing two top ten Tuesdays in a row! This week’s topic is your top ten favourite books from the past 3 years. That’s definitely a topic I can work with, although you will have seen most (if not all) of […]
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Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl… Sixteen-year-old Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past and […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is a good one, guys! It’s your top ten favourite fictional heroines, from books, TV or film — whatever you want. *rubs hands* I can work with that. I decided to only choose heroines from books, but there was one TV character […]
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When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days — as he has done before — and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that […]
Read MoreCath and Wren are identical twins and until recently they did absolutely everything together. Now they’re off to university and Wren’s decided she doesn’t want to be one half of a pair anymore — she wants to dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose. It’s not so easy for Cath. She would rather […]
Read MoreIn 2007, a New York attorney bumps into an old college buddy – and accepts his friend’s offer of a job in Dubai, as the overseer of an enormous family fortune. Haunted by the collapse of his relationship and hoping for a fresh start, our strange hero begins to suspect that he has exchanged one […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is top ten books I can’t believe I haven’t read, so I decided to just focus on classics for this one. As a student of English literature, there are lots of books I feel I should have read, but haven’t (yet). […]
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