What I read- October 2013
Wow… a whole lot of Chick Lit this month. All fun and girly. Perfect for my overly extended back to work brain. The Bride Wore Size 12 by Meg Cabot Longbourn by Jo Baker Secret Shared by L. Marie...
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The Hive by Gill Hornby The Bookstore by Deborah Meyler The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley (advanced copy via Goodreads contest) Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson The Island House by Posie...
View ArticleBook Review: Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien De Castell
Image c/o Penguin Canada Falcio Val Mond is one of the last of the Greatcoats, a special band of men and women who served as magistrates for the King. When the King is killed, the Greatcoats are...
View ArticleWhat I Read- March 2014
Tempting Fate by Jane Green (via NetGalley Love her books. Funny and honest) The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent by Susan Elia MacNeal (advanced copy via NetGalley One of my fave series. I am a sucker...
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The Women In Black: Angel of Death by Martyn Waites S.E.C.R.E.T Revealed by L .Marie Adeline (via NetGalley On Sale May 6th) The Dolphin Way: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Healthy, Happy And Motivated...
View ArticleBooks I Read- May 2014
The Nightingale Nurses series by Donna Douglas (I read first four books in series, first three via Net Galley) I am a huge Call the Midwife fan so this series about nurses in the East End of London...
View ArticleWhat I Read – June 2014
Solsbury Hill by Susan M. Whyler – This brooding, gothic novel takes a contemporary look at the life of Emily Bronte and her novel “Wuthering Heights”. Highly recommend! Daring Greatly by Brene...
View ArticleWhat I Read- August 2014
August was an insane month for us! We went on a two-week holiday, I started a new job and we continue to be in the throes of our renovation. This didn’t leave me a lot (by my usual standards) of time...
View ArticleBooks I Read- November/ December 2014
After a horrendous first trimester of my pregnancy (when I basically existed with my head under a pillow), I have finally got back to reading in a big way- I have been devouring books at a crazy rate!...
View ArticleWhat I Read- March/April 2015
The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan – This is SUCH a fun read by the girls behind the site Go Fug Yourself. I am praying for a sequel! The Little Dress Shop of Dreams by Meena Van Praag –...
View ArticleBookworm Monday- What I Read
I am back to reading in a big way! Now that the babies go to bed at a reasonable time I can curl up with a good book and a glass of wine in the evening! Here are some of the books that have made an...
View ArticleBookworm Monday- What I Read in February 2016
After You by JoJo Moyes– If “Me Before You” broke your freakin’ heart, this book will mend it. It is a wonderful sequel. The Painter’s Daughter by Julie Klassen– I read this because for some reason...
View ArticleWhat I Read- March 2016
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld (via Netgalley. Available April 19th)- A Modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice (read full review here) The Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg– I have been reading this...
View ArticleWhat I Read- April 2016
The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti– This book hooked me SO fast! I was up until the wee hours reading it because I had to know what happened! So many twists, turns, red herrings… it was fantastic....
View ArticleWhat I Read- February 2017
The Breakdown by B.A Paris (vis Netgalley. In stores June 20th 2017) – When Cass passed a a broken down car on a forested road in the middle of a driving rainstorm she never imagined that she might...
View ArticleWhat I Read- March 2017
The Secret Wife by Gill Paul– In this historical novel, one of the Romanov daughters of Russia fell in love with a soldier before the Russian Revolution. As the war intensified, these unlikely...
View ArticleWhat I read- Summer 2017
The Girls by Emma Cline– This book would have been my holy grail as a teenager. I was obsessed with true crime (still am) and this novel about a young girl entangled with a Manson Family- like cult...
View ArticleWhat I read- Autumn 2017
Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys (via Netgally- available January 9th 2018 in the US and Canada. Available now in the UK)- Traveling from England to Australia in 1939, the inhabitants of a large...
View ArticleMore Books I read in February 2018
I read a few more books this month!! I Found You By Lisa Jewel- Alice, a single mom of three, finds a man with no memory sitting on the beach outside her house. Miles away, a very young foreign bride...
View ArticleWhat I read- March 2018
The Guilded Age by Karin Tanabe– Based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first African-American woman to graduate from Vassar College in 1897. A brilliant student, Anita had spent a quiet by...
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