Topic

America

A collection of 6 issues

'25 February - theme: Black History Month

Will's Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes I was sent this book for free as an Arc from goodreads. It was called Will and contained no illustrations so I don't know if they are any good! It was a great read for black history month,

'25 January - theme: Finish an abandoned book

MaddAdam by Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood is easily one of my top 5 authors, probably even holder of the Number one spot on my list. So it might seem surprising to find her in the abandoned book category. This book is the third in the MaddAdam trilogy, preceded by Oryx

November - theme: Political

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis A Guardian quote on the cover calls this book "eerily prescient" and it's right. Those are the only two words really needed to describe this book. I found this book extremely hard to get into and if

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 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

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.