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My Bookish Pleasures
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. Helen Hayes. Wednesday, January 11, 2017. Authors To Watch: Mary Lawlor, author of 'Fighter Pilot's Daughter'. S frequent absences and brief, dramatic returns, were part of the fabric of her childhood, as were the rituals of base life and the adventures of life abroad. Rowman and Littlefield, September 2013). Tell us a little about yourself. My family moved t...
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My Bookish Rambles – Let's talk about books, baby
Let's talk about books, baby. Book Haul: November 2016. Finally I can share my book haul! I’ve been waiting for this very moment ever since I bought these books. There are quite a few of them because the Antwerp Book Fair took place this month, so of course I had to spend some money… (why else would I go? So let’s get started shall we? Continue reading “Book Haul: November 2016”. Review: Cress by Marissa Meyer. Publisher: Feiwel and Friends. Genre: Young-Adult, Science-Fiction. When a daring rescue of Cr...
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Bookish Reverie | "A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." – William Styron
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. – William Styron. Reading Challenge for the New Year. A couple of weeks ago, I was looking up possible reading challenges for 2017. I came across the 2017 Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge. As a booknerd, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to participate in this fun bookish adventure! A Newbery Award winner or Honor book. The One and Only Ivan. A book in translation. A book of a...
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My Bookish Reveries | "When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.'' – Amelia Peabody.
When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.'' – Amelia Peabody. 8221;The Robber Bride” by Margaret Atwood. June 3, 2015. June 3, 2015. The three ladies leave the restaurant in total shock and the narrative then takes us to the defining moment in their lives when they first encountered Zenia. However, the narrative does not stop there it also takes the reader back further into the past and we witness the horrors and disappointments of their childhoods. After reading about ...
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Bookish Bits
Friday, July 10, 2009. Summer Reading Thing(y) 2009. I keep censoring myself as I type. Type, delete, type delete. 1 Anything Shannon Hale that I haven't read. Ie Enna Burning, River Secrets, and the Actor and the Housewife. And I've always wanted to read more Orson Scott Card books. So perhaps he will be next. Friday, April 17, 2009. Should I read this book? Only added to it, even as obvious as it was. I came away from reading. Not only with satisfaction of having read a good tale, but also a greater un...
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My Bookish Things - Blog
Come and check out my latest blog posts. You can also find me on Goodreads and Bloglovin. Its already the 2nd of January 2015, we are already 2 days into the new year. I wish all of you a very happy New year, filled with happiness, joy and love. 2014 was an absolutely an amazing year. For me it was the year of contemporaries. I branched myself into that genre and found myself absolutely loving it. My reading during 2014 was super burb I read over seventy books! Blog tour: Icy Pretty Love by L.A Rose.
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My Bookish Thoughts
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." - George RR Martin. Monday, 16 September 2013. My Bookish Review: Throne of Glass. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. Published: 7th August 2012. Pages, Format: 420, Paperback. Series: Throne of Glass #1. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness. I just had to read it. Obviously. Let me just tell you that I love the cover. So much. It's quite different from the normal YA book covers I see with either somethin...I don...
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mybookishthoughts | Just another WordPress.com site
Book the Eighth: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. On: March 24, 2011. 8220;As a child, Kathy now thirty-one years old. Having read ‘Remains of the Day’ for my A-Level studies, I had high expectations for Never Let Me Go. This novel did not disappoint, I absolutely loved it and it had such a poignant message that I couldn’t stop thinking about for days after. Like Stevens in Remains of the Day, Ishiguro has created an intensely heart wrenching story that makes you fall in love with the characters and co...
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My Bookish Ways | SFF, Suspense, and more, since 2010
SFF, Suspense, and more, since 2010. It’s time to say goodbye…but I’ll always love you! Can you believe it’s been 6 years since I started this blog? Now, for sure. An interview with Ada Palmer, author of Too Like the Lightning. Ada Palmer’s new book, Too Like the Lightning, will be out next week, and she. Read This: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen by Alison Weir. Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen by Alison Weir-Katherine of Aragon, the first wife –. Read This: Arena by Holly Jennings. May 6, 2016.
