I have finished the first part of my reading challenge for this year. It was always a bit of a conservative estimate for books I would read this year, but I wanted to set myself something that was doable, rather than feel that the challenge was turning into a bit of a chore. I’ve continuedContinue reading “End of the Reading Challenge 2021!”
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2021 Book #75 – Cecily
Medium – Book About the Book – Cecily Neville is the wife of Richard Duke of York, during the time just before the Wars of the Roses. The book starts off with her as a young wife of 16, watching the burning of Joan of Arc, and then follows through her life with Richard, theContinue reading “2021 Book #75 – Cecily”
2021 Book #74 – A Court of Thorns and Roses
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”
2021 Book #73 – Miss Benson’s Beetle
Medium – Book About the Book – Margery Benson is a schoolteacher, living in London in 1950. London is still reeling from WW2, and Margery is making her way quietly through live, just scraping by. One day, after a terrible lesson, Margery decides that she has had enough, and she leaves the school in anContinue reading “2021 Book #73 – Miss Benson’s Beetle”
2021 Book #72 – The Priory of the Orange Tree
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – In this epic fantasy, we are introduced to a world divided by religion and ideology. At one side of the world, the house of Barethnet rules the realm, led by the beautiful queen Sabran the ninth. She must give the realm and heir in order to keep theContinue reading “2021 Book #72 – The Priory of the Orange Tree”
2021 Book #71 – An Inspector Calls (Graphic Novel)
Medium – Book About the book – This book is the graphic novel version of the play, with the original text (not the ‘quick text’ modern version). The rich, successful Birling Family are having a quiet night in, celebrating the engagement of the daughter, Sheila, to son of Mr Birling’s competitor, Gerald Crofts. As MrContinue reading “2021 Book #71 – An Inspector Calls (Graphic Novel)”
2021 Book #70 – The Gran Tour
Medium – Book About the Book – Ben Aitken (who like me is from the UK South Coast), decides that he can save rent money in London by going on six coach holidays across the UK, and one into Europe. These coach holidays are generally for four days, and are usually the province of pensioners.Continue reading “2021 Book #70 – The Gran Tour”
2021 Book #69 – The Queen’s Fool
Medium – Book About the Book – Cat Sparrow lives in a nunnery as an orphan, with her big sister Meg. One day, Meg is taken away by a man on a big black horse, and Cat decides that she will go after her. Armed with her bird flute, a beautiful singing voice and aContinue reading “2021 Book #69 – The Queen’s Fool”
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 #67 – Hamnet
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Agnes settles with her playwright husband and their children, Susanna, Judith and Hamnet, in the house next door to his parents, in Elizabethan Stratford-Upon-Avon. Agnes is a woman who is feared as much as she is loved – she has gifts of healing and also of foresight, andContinue reading “2021 Book #67 – Hamnet”
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