Archive for the ‘Recommended Books’ Category
I read this article on the BBC News website about Amazon buying Goodreads. I’m sure you know all about Goodreads, most blogs I visit tend to have one of their widgets somewhere to show what books you’ve all read over the last few months. If you’re not familiar with the site then it is all […]
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Tags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Goodreads, Otis Chandler, Reading, Writing
The Top 100 books in the UK?
I read an article yesterday about the Top 100 most popular books in the UK. I like lists. I enjoy seeing how I conform, or more often than not, don’t conform to everyone else. So how was this list compiled? Well, according to the Metro: Researchers trawled literary forums and websites to compile a list […]
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Tags: Fifty Shades of Grey, Harry Potter, J. R. R. Tolkien, JK Rowling, Reading, Writing
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 505 KB Print Length: 289 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0007508646 Publisher: Harper (1 Jan 2013) Sold by: Amazon UK, Amazon US Language: English Official Site: Dean Koontz Overview (courtesy of Goodreads) THERE’S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT. Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner […]
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Tags: Dean Koontz, E-book, Forever Odd, Goodreads, Odd Interlude, Odd Thomas, Reading, Writing
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 411 KB Print Length: 233 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1612184456 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (27 Nov 2012) Sold by: Amazon UK, Amazon US Language: English Overview Andrew Morrison sacrificed everything—his childhood, his education, and the girl of his dreams—to look after his alcoholic mother. But enough is enough, and now he’s determined to get out and […]
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Tags: Andrew Morrison, Ania Ahlborn, Basic Instinct, Blue Velvet, Kindle, Reading, Writing
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 407 KB Print Length: 215 pages Publisher: Mirrorball Books (15 May 2012) Sold by: Amazon UK, Amazon US Language: English Overview How does it feel to lose everything you own? Stella Hill is proud of the home she’s created for herself and her daughter. She’s worked hard to buy the very best of everything … But […]
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Tags: Books, Can't Live Without, Joanne Phillips, Reading, recommended books
Eclectic Reading in 2012
It’s the penultimate day of 2012. Time for my last post of 2012.This was the year of the challenges. I have to thank the fabulous Book’d Out blog for setting this challenge and in the 12 months I sort of completed it. By sort of, I mean that I read books in the 12 genres […]
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Tags: Books, David Baldacci, Jeff Lindsay, Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, Dean Koontz, Alice Sebold, Eclectic Reading
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 456 KB Print Length: 366 pages Sold by: Amazon UK and Amazon US Language: English Website: Kasia James Overview Three comfortable lives are shattered when a wave of inexplicable events exposes the fragility of human society. With an unprecedented celestial phenomenon, devastating high tides, a breakdown in global communication networks, and the sudden appearance of violent ring-gangs […]
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Tags: Australia, Books, e-books, Kasia James, Reading, sci-fi, The Artemis Effect
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 324 KB Print Length: 203 pages Publisher: Inspired Quill (1 Aug 2012) Sold by: Amazon UK, Amazon US Language: English Website: Craig Hallam Overview A Hero murdered. A Girl alone. A city of Villains. From the crumbling Belfry to the Citadel’s stained-glass eye, across acres of cobbles streets and knotted alleyways that never see daylight, Greaveburn […]
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Tags: Craig Hallam, Greaveburn, Reading, steampunk
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 509 KB Print Length: 348 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0330511742 Publisher: Picador (9 April 2008) Sold by: Amazon UK, Amazon US Overview Susie Salmon was fourteen years old when she was murdered by a man from her neighbourhood. Now in heaven, she can have whatever she wishes for – except the one thing she wants […]
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Tags: Reading, book review, Hunger Games, Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones, Susie Salmon
