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Alas, Kindle #2 has died :(

Posted on June 21, 2011November 21, 2011 by Alison
I should have posted about my poor sad Kindle when it first failed in March. I bought it in January with some birthday money and having loaded it up with half a dozen books it was my constant companio... Read More

Review: House of Silence

Posted on May 30, 2011August 23, 2011 by Alison
House of Silence by Linda Gillard My rating: 5 of 5 stars Really enjoyed this tale of dysfunctional families, secrets and intrigue. Difficult to say much about it without giving things away, but it... Read More

Review: The Truth About Dating

Posted on May 22, 2011August 23, 2011 by Alison
The Truth About Dating by Julie Christensen My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was a freebie Kindle book I picked up and I didn’t expect a lot from it, to be honest, but was pleasantly surprised. The ... Read More

Review: Get Out While You Can – Escape The Rat Race

Posted on May 22, 2011August 23, 2011 by Alison
Get Out While You Can – Escape The Rat Race by George Marshall My rating: 4 of 5 stars Really interesting book that takes an unusual and very British approach to learning how to make an alternat... Read More

Review: An Idiot Abroad

Posted on May 22, 2011August 23, 2011 by Alison
An Idiot Abroad by Karl Pilkington My rating: 2 of 5 stars Mildly amusing but bordering on zenophobia and included some pretty damning racial stereotypes. View all my reviews... Read More

How to be happy … just have a Boxing Day!

Posted on May 5, 2011March 6, 2012 by Alison
Today is Boxing Day for me. Actually, it’s one of about a dozen Boxing Days I’ve scheduled into my year, roughly one every four weeks. I’ll probably only be eating turkey on one of t... Read More

Review: Room

Posted on March 1, 2011August 23, 2011 by Alison
Room by Emma Donoghue My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well I had high hopes for this, but for the first few minutes I wasn’t sure I was going to enjoy it. Because it’s written from the point of vi... Read More

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The Rose Petal Beach
5 of 5 stars
The Rose Petal Beach
by Dorothy Koomson
Dorothy Koomson is fast becoming one of my favourite authors, and this is definitely the best of the four books I've read by her (though the others were marvellous too!). I think the thing about her books is that on the surface they look...
tagged: read-in-2012 and highly-recommended
The Guy Selling Rubbish
1 of 5 stars
The Guy Selling Rubbish
by Jack Williams
A freebie Kindle book and a quick read (well under a hour) that gave me a snigger or two. After attempting to seel so,e rubbish on ebay for a laugh, the guy in the book is challenged by a friend to sell more and make some money. Over the...
tagged: read-in-2013
A Cromer Corpse
3 of 5 stars
A Cromer Corpse
by Kelvin I Jones
I was attracted to this because it had Cromer - my favourite place - in the title. When a body is pulled from the sea off Cromer with an unusual mark carved on it, an ex detective recently relocated from Cornwall to Norfolk for a quiet ...
tagged: read-in-2013 and thriller-crime

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