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The Nothing Man offers something a bit different to the serial killer, cat-and-mouse thriller staple and two nights running I read up until midnight because I wanted to know what would happen. Initially, the book-in-a-book idea made me a little sceptical but I needn’t have been. We have two narrators; the first, of our book,…
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With lovely art style and a story told with compassion, Invisible Differences is about a woman in her late 20’s being diagnosed with Asperger’s in a country that doesn’t give it much credence where misinformation is rife. While Marguerite’s story is centred around autism, this is a story that anyone with a form of neuro-divergence…
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The HospitalKeith C. Blackmore Format: AudibleCost: Free I gave this a go as it was free on Audible and I would say if it ever moves out of that and requires a charge/credit; don’t bother. From the very outset there was wave after wave of awful similes like an ocean of garbage breaking on the…
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Here we have my 2020 list of prompts and a few reading-related challenges too. Prompts have been cobbled together from a variety of sources (mostly POPSUGAR, BookRiot and Modern Mrs Darcy) and a couple of my own devising. Rai’s Reading Challenge Prompts 2020: A ghost story A story with dragons A book that’s published in…
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Part way through the year I compiled myself a list of prompts and stipulations as reading challenges. Now that we’re at the end of 2019, it’s time to see how I did! Core Challenges: 5 points each A book with ‘cat(s)’ in the title: ‘If Cats Disappeared from the World’ Set in space: ‘The Long…
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One thing that you might not glean from the blurb is that some of the content might cause discomfort for some readers. Here’s a big ole CW for you: sex, rape, self-harm, drug and alcohol misuse, child abuse/murder, and teeth. Beyond that, this is a fairly standard thriller. Admittedly not told from the perspective of…
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A lot of content creators – with tattoos – seem to do explanation posts or videos going through their tattoos and sharing the stories behind them. I thought this would be a good exercise for me to go through as well and it can be something I can keep contributing to as and when I…
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In the run-up to Halloween, Amazon have added a variety of films to their Prime Video service and that includes the 2017 version of Stephen King’s ‘IT’. It is likely worth noting that I have not read the book nor seen the previous film from 1990 as I have a tempestuous relationship with King’s work…
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19 June 2019 – Telia Parken
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I picked up The Twisted Tree because it was a) cheap, b) fairly short and c) set in Norway. It sounded interesting and the cover art helped a little too. I was intrigued how the setting would interact with the story and to that point I hadn’t read much set in Scandinavia. I admit points…