April is here! At this point I would usually do a March wrap up but two of the books I read I have already reviewed (Punch https://cariadllyfr.wordpress.com/2019/03/06/book-review-punch-by-kate-north/ and The Night Tiger Review: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo) and the others were ok at 3* ratings. I didn't feel the need to write about the books of my [...]
About The Night Tiger In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master's severed finger and reunite it with his body. Ren has forty-nine days, or else his master's soul [...]
There are books that make you laugh, books that make you cry and books that just stay with you forever. These wonderful objects have the ability to transform you through different experiences and the emotions that they can make you feel will either have you bouncing with joy or sobbing on the floor uncontrollably while [...]
I have managed to read 25 books this year which is significantly less than last year but, as you all know, I had a Masters to contend with so I am very happy I made it. I read a wide range of books although I feel I could have branched out a little more from [...]
June was a hard month for me, I had to work a lot and so for the last 2 weeks of June I didn't allow myself to pick up a book or I would have fallen behind my deadline. Now, all you fellow bookworms know how hard that is and the pain I was in [...]
Title: Ozmander Author: Luke Taylor Publisher: Self-published Publication Date: Expected 13th June 2017 Synopsis: The first book of The Woven Worlds, Ozmander is the epic tale of a young healer accompanying a mysterious man on a dangerous journey. Rating: 5/5 Review: I am lucky enough to have developed a great friendship with Luke; he was the first [...]
Title: Antony and Cleopatra Author: William Shakespeare Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date: 1606 (this edition 2009) Rating: 4/5 Review: I haven't reviewed a play on my blog yet and I thought that Antony and Cleopatra would be a good place to start. One of my new year resolutions is to see as many Shakespeare plays performed at the [...]
Title: When Breath Becomes Air Author: Paul Kalanithi Publisher: Bodley Head Publication Date: Feb 2016 Synopsis: What makes a virtuous and meaningful life? Paul Kalanithi believed that the answer lay in medicine’s most demanding specialization, neurosurgery. Here are patients at their life’s most critical moment. Here he worked in the most critical place for human identity, the brain. What is [...]
I know we're nearing the end of January but I just had to write a post on my To Read list for 2017 because I'm genuinely looking forward to my line up. Last year I had a "terrible" habit of buying books and just putting them on my shelf, not to be picked up again [...]
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