Topic

2024

A collection of 18 issues

Additional Review 6

Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich 30! Yes, she has written and I have read 30 of these guys! Like The Simpsons or SouthPark the characters never age while technology and society changes around them. I have been reading these since I was in Year 8/9! I read the first

Additional Review 5

The No-Show by Beth O'Leary Thanks Caitlin for the loan of this surprisingly good book. I thought it would be a typical rom-com chick lit kinda deal. It was a bit more complicated than that. Nicely written and easy to read, it felt reminiscent of Marian Keyes with

October - theme: Historical Fiction

Raphael, Painter in Rome by Stephanie Storey It's occurred to me while reading this book that I might like historical fiction. That might sound odd but I've always had the opinion of that genre is fine but it's not for me. Well, this book

September - theme: Non-Fiction

A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage This was a London book box find. That book box was the first I had ever encountered and it was a delight. Housed in an old red telephone box, it had acres of choice and the books changed on

Additional Review 4

Bones Of The Lost by Kathy Reichs 10 years! I started this book in 2014 and made it to about the midway mark. Then Tempe went to Afganistan and suddenly all the bones were replaced with black Hawks, IUD's and military bases. Urgh. So there it sat for

Additional Review 3

Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall What a fun and cozy book. This is everything my pride month book wasn't. Set in the world of the Great British Bake Off (they call it bake expectations and have fictional judges and comedians but we know who

August (Part 1) - theme: Booker Long List

Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel This theme was given to me by my Mum, and I put assigned it for August as the booker long list was announced on July 30th. Perfect timing! First step was to pick which book I wanted to read, and after reading this write-up https://www.

July - theme: Summer

Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson There were a lot of options in my bookcase for a book fitting the theme of "Summer". I'm not sure why I picked this one but I'm fairly glad I did. Summer makes me think of Rom-Coms

June - theme: Pride Month

The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project 10 Years Later by Moisés Kaufman I planned to read an Alan Hollingworth book for pride month but we were going away to England and it was heavy! So I found another less fun book to read instead. This book was, unsurprisingly, depressing

Additional Review 2

The Search by Nora Roberts 26 hour train trips lend lots of time for reading so I finished off a very long forgotten abandoned book. I started this book on our first trip to the USA where I took it from an airbnb book exchange shelf. I'm so