For the Love of Books
Before starting my blog, I spent a lot of time researching what other bloggers did. I noticed just about everyone posted a monthly “Wrap UP” article. I wanted to make mine a little different, so I decided to call mine “in a Nutshell”. Well, earlier this month I was browsing through Pinterest and noticed that […]
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Author: VC Andrews Date Read: 11 January 2011 Official Summary When I was a little girl, Daddy told me never to fear the dark. “We exist because of the darkness,” he told me. “All of you are daughters of darkness.” Beloved bestselling author V.C. Andrews’s passion for vampires comes to spellbinding life in a long-awaited novel
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Author: Mary Higgins Clark Date Read: 13 January 2011 Official Summary This hospital-based horror tale features abduction and a research project that violates every principle of modern medicine. This is a reissue of a novel by a popular author often described as the ‘Queen of Suspense’. My thoughts: I flew through this book in two nights.
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Author: Lee Child Date Read: 06 July 2013 Official Summary March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy – or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is
Title: Behind Closed Doors Author: Catherine Alliott ISBN: 978-0241384725 Publisher: Penguin Random House Pages:405 Source: Review Copy From Penguin Random House South Africa From the outside, anyone would think that Lucy Palmer has it all: loving children, a dashing husband and a gorgeous home. But when her marriage to Michael comes to an abrupt and
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Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Date Read: 15 April 2011 Official Summary In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want—husband, country home, successful career—but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous book is the story of how she left behind
Title: The Source Author: Sarah Sultoon ISBN: 9781913193591 Publisher: Orenda Books Pages: 320 Source: ARC from Publisher for Blog Tour Blog Tour: Organised by Anne Cater from Random Things Tours 1996 Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum
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Title: Vanished Author: James Delargy ISBN: 9781471177569 Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER Pages: 496 Source: ARC from Publisher for Blog Tour Blog Tour: Organised by Anne Cater from Random Things Tours The Kane family, Lorcan, Naiyana and their young son are desperate to move their young family far away from the hustle and bustle of modern
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Author: Stephen King Date Read: 26 February 2011 Official Summary After a construction accident in which he loses his right arm and his divorce, Edgar Freemantle moves from Minnesota to Florida to begin what his psychiatrist describes as a “geographic cure”. He rediscovers his love of painting and finds that he is good at it but
