Medium – Book About the Book – Dhikilo Bentley is a young girl adopted from Somaliland and living in the English seaside town of Cawber. One morning, she wakes up to find that the letter ‘D’ has disappeared from the conversation of her parents. On heading to school, she finds that ‘D’ has disappeared fromContinue reading “TBR Pile #11 – D: A Tale of Two Worlds”
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TBR Pile #10 – Thorn
Medium – Book About the Book – Princess Alyrra is promised to be married to Prince Kestrin, the heir of the throne of a neighbouring kingdom. Abused and terrorised by her family, she is not particularly keen on the marriage, but at the same time, can’t wait to get away from her mother and brother.Continue reading “TBR Pile #10 – Thorn”
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”
TBR Pile Book #5 – Circe
Medium – Book About the Book – Circe, the immortal daughter of Helios (the Greek God of the Sun), is a strange child, unloved by her parents and the rest of her family. Residing in her father’s halls, she sees many things that she dislikes and is teased, taunted and generally mistreated. She thinks ofContinue reading “TBR Pile Book #5 – Circe”
Book #50 – Neverwhere
Prompt – A banned book (meant to be read in banned books week, but I was early – this book was banned in parts of the American South). Medium – Book About the Book – Set in London, this book tells the story of Richard Mayhew, a normal young businessman, with a fiancee, a flatContinue reading “Book #50 – Neverwhere”
Book #46 – Juror No. 3
Prompt – A book you picked because the title caught your attention (I was on a jury once and found the whole thing really interesting). Medium – Book About the Book – Ruby Bozarth is a lawyer in a small Mississippi town. She is asked to represent a black college football player against a chargeContinue reading “Book #46 – Juror No. 3”
Book #40 – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Prompt – A book about a book club Medium – Book About the Book – It is just after the end of the Second World War, and Juliet Ashton is a thirty-two year old writer living in London. She has writer’s block and is looking for her next topic for a book, after writing light-heartedContinue reading “Book #40 – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
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 #25 – The Cruel Prince
Prompt – A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name. Medium – Audiobook About the book – Written by Holly Black, the book tells the story of Jude Duarte and her sisters Vivi and Taryn. As young children, their parents are killed by their adoptive father, Madoc, and taken to theContinue reading “Book #25 – The Cruel Prince”
Book #24 – The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerising Girl
Prompt – A book with a main character in their 20s Medium – Book About the Book – The sequel to ‘European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman’, Theodora Goss presents the next adventures of the Athena Club. Mary, Justine, Diana, Catherine and Beatrice return as they receive a message that their kitchen maid, Alice, andContinue reading “Book #24 – The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerising Girl”
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