Kate Quinn is one of my favourite contemporary authors and I was certain I will love The Rose Code. But this book is something else! The Alice Network was great, The Huntress was epic, but in her third book to be set in the twentieth century, Kate Quinn has taken things to a whole new…
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Book Review: Men of Men
“Best historical novelist? I say Wilbur Smith, with his swashbuckling novels of Africa. The bodices rip and the blood flows. You can get lost in Wilbur Smith and misplace all of August.” – Stephen King I first read Wilbur Smith in high school – it was one of his most famous novels, and probably the only one…
Book Review: The Birth Of Venus
The Birth Of Venus is Sarah Dunant’s first historical novel (not her debut though, as I had wrongly gathered from my pre-reading research on the book). It is set again during the Renaissance, for which Dunant seems to have developed a certain panache, and tells the story of Alessandra – a young Florentine woman and…
Underrated Books To Read And Love
It’s been a while since I have done a Top Ten Tuesday post. What luck that the topic for this week – Books I Enjoyed That Have Under 2000 Goodreads Ratings – should be so fun and so different! (Also, tbh I love that I don’t have to rattle my brains to figure out what books…
Books + Summer + The Beach – The Dazzling Magic of Beach Reads
Is this the formula for happiness? I cannot say for sure, but I am pretty sure I will be enjoying some seriously happy moments in a very very little bit. The purpose of this post is not to tease, though, so I will just make my point. Beach reads. How do you feel about those?…
Top 10 Tuesday – Authors I’ve Read The Most Books From
This week’s Tuesday Top 10, hosted as usual by Lauren and Julia at The Broke and the Bookish is such a no-brainer that I bet I can write it in less than ten minutes. Three, two, one – go! (Just let me open Goodreads). I am pretty certain which three names will pop up at the top, since I devoured…
The Polygamous Reader – A Survival Guide (+ handout)
Do you read one book from start to finish and only start the next one when you have, in all honesty, marked it as ‘Read’ on Goodreads? No, I didn’t think so. Polygamous reading is easy to slide into, sometimes just a package delivery away. Imagine this – you are enjoying a delicious macchiato with your Currently-Reading belle…
23 Thoughts I Had About The Goodreads Reading Challenge
(1 January) I killed this challenge last year, now it’s time to overachieve Hmm, these folks vow 100 books? What’s wrong with them! Most of my friends have vowed 100 books! What’s wrong with me? Amma stay real. 20. Real but ambitious. 50. Who am I kidding, I hardly managed 15 last year. Yeah, 15 – a third of them being…
PrettyDoesome Books 