Happy New Year to you all. Having gone a bit quiet in the run up to Christmas I now have a few things in progress that I’m just about to share with you. First review will be coming very soon. Unusually I have a number of different books on the […]
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I have to admit that I am very tempted by the current Amazon offer to get Audible at a reduced price. Prime members get a 90 day free trial or you can get 50% off for the first 4 months. But I am really conflicted. My only real experience of […]
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This week somebody asked me why the books I review on the blog were pretty much all three star reviews or above. This lady asked me if I was afraid of hurting the author’s feelings! I’m very lucky to be in a position where I get 95% of the books […]
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I came across an interesting article in the Mail and Independent newspapers today. A study done by Kingston University asserts that people who read books are more likely to act in a socially acceptable manner compared to those who preferred watching television. Specifically people that read fiction. Why do we […]
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Whenever I’m sitting down writing reviews I often wonder how many people are inspired to go off and read the same things I’m reading or even if the books I’m reading are the same things that other people like. I’d be interested to see what kind of genres that you […]
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It’s bizarre to think that I read aboutย 160 books in a year but when I was asked yesterday what my favourite book of the year was I struggled to come up with one. It was all I could do to think about the books that I had given the highest […]
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I got an email today from an author inviting me to vote in the latest Goodreads Choice Awards 2015. As I’ve read over 150 books so far in 2015 I thought that would put me in a pretty good position to be able to vote in a lot of the […]
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