Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Feyre is a young human girl who hunts in the forest that she lives in to feed her two older sisters, Nesta and Elain, and her crippled father. One day, she goes into the forest and kills a wolf. After she has sold its pelt, she is ambushedContinue reading “2021 Book #74 – A Court of Thorns and Roses”
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2021 Book #68 – The Nesting
Medium – Book About the Book – Lexi Ellis is at the end of her tether. Struggling with depression and anxiety, one day she decides to take her own life but is found just in time by her friend. When she leaves hospital, she is dumped by her boyfriend, chucked out of his house andContinue reading “2021 Book #68 – The Nesting”
2021 Book #17 – Grimm Tales for Young and Old
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Philip Pullman retells fifty of his favourite Grimm Fairy Tales, such as ‘Snow White’, ‘The three snake leaves’, ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Thousandfurs’. The stories are told with humour, but generally stick to the same settings and language structure as the original tales. The audiobook is read by Philip PullmanContinue reading “2021 Book #17 – Grimm Tales for Young and Old”
2021 Book #14 – The Castle of Tangled Magic
Medium – Book About the Book – Olia is the descendent of Russian royalty, though now an ordinary person, and she lives in the beautiful Castle Mila, which has a huge number of domes. She lives with her parents (her mother is a character from a previous book by Sophie Anderson), her newborn sister RosaContinue reading “2021 Book #14 – The Castle of Tangled Magic”
TBR Pile Book #7 – The House with Chicken Legs
Medium – Book About this Book – Marinka dreams of living an ordinary life, where she can make friends and her house stays in one place. However, she lives in a house with chicken legs, and the job of this house is to guide the dead. Marinka’s grandmother is Baba Yaga. She helps dead soulsContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #7 – The House with Chicken Legs”
Book #34 – The Girl Who Speaks Bear
Prompt – A book with a map. Medium – Book About the Book – Yanka is found abandoned in the wilds of Russia as a baby, snuggled in a bear cave. She is taken in by a kind woman from the nearby village, her Mamochka. However, she never feels like she fits in within theContinue reading “Book #34 – The Girl Who Speaks Bear”
Book #27 – Cinder
Prompt – A book with a robot, cyborg or AI character Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Linh Cinder lives with her Guardian and two step-sisters, Peony and Pearl, in New Beijing in the distant future. She is an expert mechanic and works to earn money for her horrible guardian and her sisters toContinue reading “Book #27 – Cinder”
Book #20 – The Merry Spinster
Prompt – A book written by a trans or non-binary author. Medium – Book About the Book – Daniel Mallory Ortberg re-imagines a series of classical ‘bedtime stories’ as dark and slightly creepy tales. The stories include psychological horror, emotional upset and feminist additions to create new plots and twists to some of the mostContinue reading “Book #20 – The Merry Spinster”
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