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Reading Challenge 2019: wrap-up

Reading Challenge 2019: wrap-up

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 Way to a Small, Angry Planet’ Set in Scandinavia: ‘The Twisted Tree’ Published this year (2019): ‘I Know Everything’ Published before you were born: ‘The…

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Read: Sharp Objects

Read: Sharp Objects

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 the police, instead from Camille the journalist, but it’s still predictable in terms of the ‘Whodunnit’ part of the plot. The clues Flynn leaves are…

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Read: The Twisted Tree

Read: The Twisted Tree

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 a & b appealed because I felt I was falling behind on my Reading Challenge and needed a bump; nevertheless I ended up enjoying the…

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Reading Challenges 2019

Reading Challenges 2019

In an attempt to jolt myself into reading more consistently and in a hope to hit my overall Goodreads challenge target of 18, I was inspired to throw together a list of mini challenges.  In the same vein as Instagram photo challenges, with 30 days of prompts to take a photo of, these lists are created by lots of bookish sites and accounts and do the rounds every January and I missed out on them.  Below is my challenge list,…

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Read: Ghost Wall

Read: Ghost Wall

If you find yourself thinking this is a ghost horror; it’s not. There are no ghosts nor any supernatural goings on. To me, expecting a ghost story I was a little disappointed…

2019: Time to Begin

2019: Time to Begin

The start of a new year seems like the ideal time to finally kick this blog into action and what better way to begin than with some plans for what’s to come over the next 12 months? Below are three key areas that I’ll be talking about here on the site over the coming year (& beyond). I’ve picked these three to start with as I’ve been thinking about them heavily over the last few days and it seemed fitting…

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