2012-06-19 07:48
It has been ages since I've posted on here! I miss my blog but it started to feel like a chore. It was like 'having' to review and blog each book I read was taking something away from the re… Read More
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2012-02-24 11:01
It's been a while since I posted a review here.... A long while and to be honest, the review was so rushed and I felt so pressured to write it, it was bad. Time to face the fact that I just… Read More
2012-02-04 07:35
I bought this book from Dymocks today. This note was inside Read More
2012-01-22 02:15
January 20111. Soulless – Gail Carriger2. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami3. Angels and Demons – Dan Brown4. Shame on You – Clara Salaman 5. Possession – Pe… Read More
2012-01-22 02:14
Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lu… Read More
2012-01-03 01:28
What if you knew exactly when you would die? Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb—males only live to age twenty-five, and females on… Read More
2011-12-22 01:04
Is it really that time of year again? With Christmas fast approaching (3 sleeps to go!) I find myself wondering where the year went. It really has gone fast. So much has happened. I started… Read More
2011-12-17 05:29
Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing – a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormo… Read More
2011-11-26 10:57
The personal ad was intriguing: an invitation to partake in a "murder" at the home of Letitia Blacklock. The uncharacteristic prank comes as a surprise to Letitia's friends -- and a bigger… Read More
2011-11-19 11:20
Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is the classic biography of Charles Bukowski, the hard-drinking barfly whose semi-autobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure ac… Read More
2011-11-12 06:31
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. S… Read More
2011-11-08 00:22
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And her… Read More
2011-10-29 06:11
In The Little Prince, a small boy leaves the tiny planet on which he lives alone, on a trip to Earth, where he is introduced to the vagaries of adult behaviour. On one level this work is t… Read More
2011-10-27 07:28
Yup, that's right! 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami! The crew over at Random House were nice enough to send me a review copy! I can't wait to sink my teeth into this one :) Read More
2011-10-23 03:02
With his fourth novel, legendary barfly Charles Bukowski follows the path of his alter ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection, drinking his way through the… Read More
2011-10-02 07:59
Why do I buy more books when I don't have much time to read? (story of my life, lately). Or, do I just notice that I am buying books more, because they are just sitting on my shelf wanting t… Read More
2011-09-24 12:13
For Gabriel and his wife, Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London – a visit to a gallery in St. James’s to authenticate a newly discovered paint… Read More
2011-09-18 09:46
According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life imprisonment. But when Dr Aurthur Calgary arrives with the proof that conf… Read More
2011-08-17 12:07
I love seeing 'meaningful graffiti'. Unlike tagging, which is akin to a dog peeing on something to mark it's territory, this sort of graffiti, I find beautiful. This word meant something to… Read More
2011-08-14 09:28
Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a pair of horns growing from his temples.At first, Ig thought the horns were a hallucina… Read More
2011-07-31 00:22
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and… Read More
2011-07-27 12:25
I have been absent... I apologise. Life, work, study and wedding planning have been taking up so much of my time. I haven't even been reading much. Which disappoints me. But as usual, I take… Read More
2011-07-17 06:43
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma s… Read More
2011-07-13 02:43
Summer 1924: on the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford… Read More
2011-07-12 02:40
In 1783, Henry Cabell and Susannah Holmes found themselves in the fortress that was Norwich Castle. They had been imprisoned for stealing goods worth more than forty shillings, a crime th… Read More
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