If you’ve spoken with me about books at all in the last year, I’ve either recommended you read only classic Sci-Fi or I’ve enthusiastically talked your ear off about two books, one – Little Fires Everywhere, and the other – Where the Crawdads Sing, both exquisite. Usually, around Autumn time, I start getting a hankering …
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Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
When it comes to reading I’m quite fussy; it takes quite a lot to keep me interested. I admit I have the attention span of a small, very easily distracted child… and I’m 32… and it’s only getting worse! I’d heard great things about Celeste Ng’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, even memorising the cover …
Reading List: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Liz and I have a somewhat odd relationship. We’ve never met and she has no idea who I am, yet I feel a familiarity about her. Perhaps because in all her writings as Elizabeth Gilbert, her voice seems so intrinsically “her” on the page that she could almost be sat across a table in a …
Reading: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
It has taken me a good few months to finish Wild and that’s not to say that it’s a bad read, because it’s far from it; it’s a fantastic book. When I started it back at the beginning of the year I knew I would struggle with it. Right from the moment I read the …
Reading: Kale and Coffee by Kevin Gianni
Kicking off this reading series is a book which I wasn’t searching for. It suddenly popped up as a suggestion of something I maybe, possibly, thank you, please, might like to read as I browsed Amazon for books about blogging. How the internet knew about my current OBSESSION with nomadic tales I just don’t know… …