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I’ve put together 20 prompts for my reading next year. I think there’s a good mix below and I’m sure there’ll come a point where it’ll help me choose what to read next! I’ve kept them fairly simple as who knows what surprises await us next year, given how bizarre my reading went in 2020.…
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Back at the start of the year I published a post with my self-assigned Reading Challenges for 2020 and now it’s time for an update as I have completed the main list! Below I’ve re-listed all the challenges and updated them to include what book I read for them or what/when I completed an activity.…
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The Whisper Man by Alex North My rating: 3 of 5 stars 3.5 out of 5. An engaging thriller with a hint of the supernatural mixed in. This is a multi-perspective thriller with a good balance between victim/s, killer and police POVs set in England with some internal themes around parenthood – specifically fatherhood –…
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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was a bit of a weird one to rate and categorise for me. It’s billed as being ‘darkly comic’ but I didn’t feel anything like that coming through. It’s a tale of a woman who does not fit in and trying to…
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When We Cease to Understand the World by BenjamÃn Labatut My rating: 3 of 5 stars When We Cease to Understand the World features an exploration of major scientific advances in the 20th century alongside the idea that genius is often beset by madness. It is important to note, however, that there are increasing fictionalised…
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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a book with a lot to offer. We have four POV’s from two main characters and two slightly more secondary characters. The narrative swaps between these four in a chronological fashion, as opposed to simultaneous so the book…
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury My rating: 4 of 5 stars There are a lot of things that can be said about this book and given it’s almost 70 years old at this point I’m sure most of what I have to say has been said before. Nevertheless, in trying to keep up the habit…
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The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin My rating: 5 of 5 stars *chef’s kiss* Muah! Mm. Yes. Please. More. Thank you. Loved this, – perhaps not as much as The Fifth Season but – it was everything I wanted from the series so far and more. The writing is excellent; character building is balanced and the sections…
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