Eve is currently on leave recovering from injuries sustained when her house and car were blown up and with no place to stay she is lodging at her mother Sister Immaculata's boarding school.
Wednesday 27 July 2022
Book Review: Bad Habits by Sarah Evans
Eve is currently on leave recovering from injuries sustained when her house and car were blown up and with no place to stay she is lodging at her mother Sister Immaculata's boarding school.
Tuesday 26 July 2022
Book Review: The Bellbird River Country Choir by Sophie Green
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Set over the twelve months of 1998 Sophie Green’s latest novel, The Bellbird River Country Choir is a totally immersive read about the importance of female friendships.
Each of the women are at a cross-roads in their life and find that confiding and trusting in one another gives them the confidence to move forward.
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Monday 25 July 2022
Mailbox Monday - July 25th
Thursday 21 July 2022
Winner of a copy of The Brightest Star announced!!
A huge thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway for a paperback copy of The Brightest Star. The giveaway closed on the 21st July and the winner was randomly selected (using Random org) from all correct entries.
Congratulations to........ Cheryl M
The winner has been notified and has seven days to provide a mailing address.
Please look under the giveaway tab for more chances to win great books.
Wednesday 20 July 2022
Book Review: Love Never Chose Me by Rosanna M.I.
As an avid reader from an early age, she found herself writing poems and stories as a hobby, not imagining that creating fiction would become her biggest dream and main goal later in life.
Most of her works are full of emotional roller coasters, drama, not-perfect characters, second chances and changes, as she would like to read them.
When Rosanna M.I. is not going crazy with her books, she is spending time with her three cats, listening to music and taking care of her mental health.
Sunday 17 July 2022
Book Review: Double Negative by Susan Marshall
Publication date: 12th November 2021
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The old adage is to "write what you know," and in Double Negative, Susan channels her experience as a parent of a teen amputee and her misguided belief that she was once an athlete.
NemeSIS was inspired by the complicated sister dynamic in Susan's estrogen fuelled household growing up in Hamilton, Ontario.
Susan lives in Toronto with her husband, three sons, a daughter, rescue dog Bean and Indy the cat.
Friday 15 July 2022
Book Giveaway - Friday Freebie: The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt
For Leonarda Lunetta, eldest daughter of the learned Signore Vincenzo Fusili, religion is not as interesting as the books she shares with her beloved father. Reading is an escape from the ridicule flung her way, for Luna is not like other girls. She was born with a misshapen leg and that, and her passion for intellectual pursuits - particularly astronomy - alters how society sees her and how she sees the world.
Luna wants to know, to learn, to become an astronomer who charts the nights sky - certainly not the dutiful, marriageable daughter all of Florence society insists upon. So when Luna meets astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, she is not surprised that his heretical beliefs confirm her view that world is not as it is presented - or how it could be. These dangerous ideas bring her into conflict with the preacher Savonarola, and her future is changed irrevocably as politics, extremism and belief systems ignite in a dangerous conflagration.
Luna is a woman born out of time, the brightest star of her generation, but can she reconcile the girl of her father's making with this new version of herself? And if she does, will Renaissance Italy prove too perilous and dark a place for a free-thinking woman?
I have one paperback copy of The Brightest Star to give away.
Thursday 14 July 2022
Book Review: The Bone Ranger by Louisa Bennett
Publication date: 18th November 2021
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* I am saddened to add that Louisa's beloved dog Pickles passed away last week aged 12 years - RIP Pickles 💗
Sunday 10 July 2022
Book Review: Someone Else's Child by Kylie Orr
Sunday 3 July 2022
Book Review: Summer at Kangaroo Ridge by Nicole Hurley-Moore
My review of Summer at Kangaroo Ridge
Friday 1 July 2022
Spotlight on other books I've read this month - June
I read this book in a day. Tony Maguire writes Marianne's story with candour.
A young, lonely little girl manipulated and abused by a trusted neighbour. It's impossible to imagine that nobody stopped him, nobody cared for this child.
Narrated in two time-lines; Marianne as a young child and then in middle-age, married with her own grown children.
One thing I noticed in this book is Marianne doesn't delve on her mental state, which I would presume was bad, just a few mentions of self harm. This story is not about garnering sympathy, it's a cleansing, a coming to terms with her past.
My deepest regret is the perpetrator doesn't appear to have been punished. It's hard not to wonder if other victims followed.
A highly recommended read.
Through the Starr and Mabbett families Robbi Neal explores social and family issues relevant to the time period; the bonds of friendship, how the war affected all families, polio, air raid shelters, rationing and the importance of the church.
The story isn't so much about Connie but her whole family. Her father is the local pastor, a sensitive man who has bouts of depression due to feelings of failure. It is Connie's mother, Flora, who runs the household and supports the town folk in their time of need.
Robbi includes issues of underage sign-ups, teenage pregnancy and the loss of a child.
World events during the time period are seamlessly included throughout the narration.
A brilliantly observed story of people and their foibles, regrets, loves and disappointments.
In One of Us we get to climb security fences and peek through the hedges at the residents of an exclusive gated community.
One of Us is a gripping domestic noir filled with simmering secrets. I was intrigued with this story right from the prologue; a husband attacked and a wife in tears. The question of who was attacked is in the back of your mind as you read. Then there is the mystery of the attacker with many of the characters having a motive.