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She walks up the boulevard. But she changes direction, crosses, and the broken angle of her path is sharp enough to puncture the space like a nail that catches on a piece of fabric and tears along its length" A mini review of this short novel which lingered with me long after I had finished [...]
I signed up to Netgalley.com to get my hands on some free reads, which I hoped would get me out of my reading comfort zone, introduce me to some new writers and get me reading books which I might not have spotted on bookstagram. I’m guessing many of you will have read Elizabeth Strout’s books. [...]
That it wasn’t her desire, but mostly theirs, that she was serving.” There has been no ignoring this work of non-fiction which artfully documents the real lives of three very different women and their experience of love in the modern world. Initially the glowing reviews and beautiful Bookstagram pictures hummed from every corner of the [...]
He was the first person I had met since Bobbi who made me enjoy conversation, in the same irrational and sensuous way I enjoyed coffee or loud music.” A while ago I read and reviewed the superb Normal People by Sally Rooney and came to the conclusion that it had the makings of a future [...]
We do know that the conditions of Molotschna have been created by man, that these attacks have been made possible, even the conception of these acts, the planning of these attacks, the rationale for these attacks within the minds of men, because of the circumstances of Molotschna. And these circumstances have been created and ordained [...]
I’ll begin this review by saying that this was the first novel I’ve been gifted and the first ever blogging event I have been to, so in many ways Elle Nash’s explosive, dark and sexually charged coming of age novel moved me into a new space with this blog. Blogging has given me the opportunity [...]
The kitchen gave a family structure, shape, a space in which to exist. And Grace imagined her cooking as it’s beating heart.” I am breaking away from my sea theme to cover some other books I have managed to read of late! So I come to Grace’s Table - which the lovely wearethecuriousbookclub on Instagram [...]
Let’s make our beast beautiful. I believe with all my heart that just understanding the meta-purpose of the anxious struggle helps to make it beautiful. Purposeful, creative, bold, rich, deep things are always beautiful.” You’ve probably heard of Sarah Wilson or her “I Quit Sugar” empire. What you might not know is, like 1 in [...]
What had always felt to me like an overabundance of want, too much desire, had not been the problem. It was my fear of having to feel it that hurt me.” I picked up The Pisces knowing very little about it. Having spotted in on sale in my local Waterstones I decided to give it [...]
My father’s house was a strange place once partially deserted; yawn of space, hand held insufficiently over the mouth ….” Never judge a book by its cover - a cliche that every bookworm has ignored at some point. I did with Salt Slow - first I was drawn to it for the beautiful cover, then [...]
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