There’s nothing like a library fine to quicken the reading of a book. Yikes! I borrowed The Age of Magic by Ben Okri from the library and it’s 3 days overdue. That’ll accrue a $1 fine. Thankfully, that’s all I need to pay as I finished it! Yay! Well it wasn’t that this book was boring or…
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Reading Project 2016 – The Natural Way of Things #7
I consumed this book within a week. (A week!) It was a page turner so unlike the last book I read. I actually heard a review of it on Radio National and thought that sounds like an interesting story. Well it was but it didn’t meet my expectation. The review made it sound like it was…
Reading Project 2016 – Dodge Rose #6
Ok all you punctuation nazis – this book isn’t for you! This was so hard to read because I am one of those people who likes to see written text laid out in a more visually appealing way and in the right kind of format (conversations in quotation marks; apostrophes in shortened words; surprises in…
Reading Project 2016 – Where My Heart Used To Beat #5
I should have known not to read another book by Sebastian Faulks. The last book I read of his was a total bore. But alas this book was ready to be picked up from the library so I gave him another chance. And yet again I was disappointed… So a bit about the plot without…
Reading Project 2016 – The Wolf Border #4
The first thing I noticed when I started reading this book was the dialogues weren’t written with quotations marks (“..”). So you had to work out who was speaking at the time. But you catch on. I did. And if I could, anyone could. I also like how the author (Sarah Hall) writes – she…
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