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(S)he Said Discussion – Sex In Erotic Fiction

HE SAID, SHE SAID is a brand-spanking-new feature created and hosted by Rachel (at) Confessions of a Book Geek and Joey (at) Thoughts and Afterthoughts, where formality is thrown out of the window in no-holds-barred discussions on all things bookish.

To-date we have discussed Sex in Adult/NA Fiction and Sex in YA Fiction, and with the release of the much-anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey movie, we thought it was about time we tackled the third and final He Said, She Said post on sex in books, with Erotic Fiction.

Top Ten Tuesday – Book Geek Problems

Top Ten Book Geek Problems I’m loving this week’s topic, as there’s so many Book Geek problems only other Book Geeks understand!! Looking forward to seeing what everyone picks! (PS I often tweet with #bookgeekproblems – join me in my whinging!) 1. When someone asks to borrow one of your favourite books… Very few people […]

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Review: All The Light We Cannot See

Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighbourhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorise it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea.

In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialised tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.

2.5* Read!

2015 Discussion Challenge

2015 marked the first time I would be blogging at the turn of a new year, which meant New Year resolutions, blog housekeeping and challenge sign-ups. I decided early-on that I wasn’t going to sign-up to too many challenges because I didn’t want to overstretch myself, but I’m adding just one more to the list. The […]

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Review: How (Not) To Fall In Love

17 year-old Darcy is completely unprepared when her car is repossessed from the parking lot of her elite private school. Turns out her father, a semi-famous motivational speaker, has skipped town, abandoning his family while his business collapses. Desperate to sell her expensive jewellery for much-needed cash, Darcy discovers that her dad’s brother runs a funky thrift shop on a street full of eccentric characters, including a coffee shop owner named Liz and one supremely hot fix-it guy named Lucas.

4* Read!

Loony Literate Launch Tag!

The lovely Emily @ The Loony Literate is celebrating the launch of her new blog and design by hosting a giveaway and tag. I’ve followed Emily for a while now and definitely recommend checking her blog out! 1. What’s something a bit LOONY about you? I struggled with this for ages and even tweeted Emily about […]

Top Ten Tuesday – Loves and Loathes In Romances

Top Ten Loves and Loathes In Romances Ohhh, this was a tricky one. I know what I like and what I don’t like when I’m reading it, but trying to put those things into a list was surprisingly tough! Especially because I know I like things that others don’t, or things that I know I […]

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Review: Dear Daughter

LA IT girl Janie Jenkins has it all. The looks, the brains, the connections. The criminal record.

Ten years ago, in a trial that transfixed America, Janie was convicted of murdering her mother. Now she’s been released on a technicality she’s determined to unravel the mystery of her mother’s last words, words that send her to a tiny town in the very back of beyond. But with the whole of America’s media on her tail, convinced she’s literally got away with murder, she has to do everything she can to throw her pursuers off the scent. She knows she really didn’t like her mother. Could she have killed her?

3.5* Read!

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ReRead Review: Maybe Someday

I originally read this book for the first time in May 2014, giving it 4.5*.
I wish I had more time to reread, BUT I did manage to fit this one in, and compare my reread thoughts to my original thoughts!

4.5* Read!

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Review: Between the Lives

For as long as she can remember, Sabine has lived two lives. Every 24 hours she shifts to her ‘other’ life – a life where she is exactly the same, but absolutely everything else is different: different family, different friends, different social expectations. In one life she has a sister, in the other she does not. In one life she’s a straight-A student with the perfect boyfriend, in the other she’s considered a reckless delinquent. Nothing about her situation has ever changed, until the day when she discovers a glitch: the arm she breaks in one life is perfectly fine in the other.

With this new knowledge, Sabine begins a series of increasingly risky experiments that bring her dangerously close to the life she’s always wanted. But if she can only have one life, which is the one she’ll choose?

3/5* Read!

Stacking the Shelves & Wrappin’ It Up January 2015

Books: I recently posted about how much I spent on books in 2014, and as a result, I’m trying to be an even more frugal spender in 2015. Not because I feel I spent too much in 2014 (I was very proud of myself, actually!), but because I now own too many unread books! First up, […]

The TBR Tag

I had this sitting in my drafts for so long, that I can’t remember if I was tagged to do it, or if I just decided to because it looked fun… (Edit: I think maybe Charnell @ Reviews from a Bookworm tagged me…). To me, books I actually own make up my TBR pile, so I’ll […]

Top Ten Tuesday – Books To Read With A Book Club

Top Ten Books To Read With A Book Club I’ve never been in an official Book Club – the English Literature Department started one when I was at school, but it sadly only lasted for the duration of one book… Recently though, Stefani, Brandie and I accidentally started an on-line Book Club of sorts for […]

How Much Do You Spend On Books?

As book bloggers, we’re obsessed with many bookish things, the most obvious being books. Some of us loan from libraries, some of us receive ARCs, and some of us just like to buy and own them. This results in all sorts of justifications for our hobby, and some interesting side-effects – book buying bans when […]