So, I don't really do New Years resolutions, mostly because I feel like they're more guilt inducing than anything. But at the start of the year I do set goals. I like them to be fun, rewarding and achievable... Something that adds to your life and makes you extend yourself in some way. So, …
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The Name Of The Star by Maureen Johnson
An interesting story about a teenage girl from America who moves to London to attend a boarding school. As she touches down, someone has started murdering in the same style as Jack the Ripper, and the first murder has occurred right near her new school. As the killings stack up, our heroine Rory starts …
The Girl on Legare Street by Karen White
I had a lot of texts to read, and things always get crazy in the lead up to Christmas, but happily, with the temperature dropping & finally nowhere to go & no one demanding time I could curl up with this, the second book in the Tradd Street series by Karen White. Revolving around …
What do you do with all your books?
So, I might have mentioned on here recently that my boyfriend and I built some pretty epic shelves together and installed them. It was so nice to get all my books unpacked from their boxes and sorted by subject matter onto shelves. (And it was also really fun to build something together!) At the moment, …
Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville
This book tells two stories about two girls. One a child acting out to deal with the loss and change around her, as her physician father moves closer to his work in what she calls a human zoo. The other, a young woman who appears on a road leading to Vienna, naked, beaten and telling …
The Sleep Room by F R Tallis
In this story of psychological horror, a young doctor takes a position at an out of the way hospital for the mentally ill, where a new form of therapy is being undertaken on six damaged women, who are kept under permanent sedation in the Sleep Room. As the doctor notices the women's sleep cycles synchronising, strange …
The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
A delightful book of adult fairy tales, from the author of Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and set mostly in the same world, though involing different characters and timescales. I would suggest, for book lovers, to get it in hardback, because it is an illustrated book, and the paperback version does not do it justice. …
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Green Angel by Alice Hoffman
I like Alice Hoffman books, with their subtle magic, darkness and everyday lives. I had forgotten that she also wrote young adult fiction, so when I ordered this one, it looked more like a novella. It's a sad book, the story of a 15 year old girl, whose parents and sister head into the city …
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Everything is covered in cold, white snow in this novel of family trauma and intrigue in 1908 Wisconsin. Goolrick was inspired to write this book after coming across Michael Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip, a photographic collection of residents of this area in the early 1900's with stories from records and newspapers of the subject's stories. …
The Somnambulist by Essie Fox
Written by blogger The Virtual Victorian, this book tells the story of a 17 year old girl, Phoebe, coming of age caught between her strictly religious mother and beloved opera performer aunt. When her aunt kills herself after seeing a man from her past at a performance, family secrets start to emerge. Based in the …
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