Currently reading 'Pilgrim' by Louise Hall
In 2018 (and still continuing now) I had set myself a challenge to read more books that were seen as classics (or by authors who are seen as authors to read) and more books that had been translated into English. The Book of Imaginary Beings fits nicely into both categories. Ostensibly a short survey of […]
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Gritty, full of shit and piss, dark and twisting. This is my favourite book of 2019, at the moment. As I’ve probably gone on at length somewhere else, I’m not a thriller/mystery reader by nature, but this is such a wonderfully engrossing and descriptive novel of 19th century Stockholm I was dragged into this at […]
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Izzy is beset by a lot of problems in this story, her mum is in a coma in the hospital after a car crash that she feels is her fault, her dad is not coping at all, and her best friend, Lou, is shunning her for others. This is a wonderfully written book on the […]
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This is the story of Hugo and Boone, a story of friendship and adventure. Hugo is a Sasquatch and Boone is a Human and the two were never meant to meet, fear of discovery keeping Sasquatch society hidden as they think that humans will either want to capture or kill them. Hugo wants adventure and […]
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