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#3 |First Lines Friday

‘All these sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.’

Book Journal, Books, Eowyn Ivey, Fiction, First Lines Friday, Magic Realism, Reading, Snow, Winter Read

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton

A man wakes in the woods, screaming ‘Anna’ with no idea who he – or she – is.

Book Journal, Book Review, Books, Fiction, Reading, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

50 Bookish Things for Post #100

Celebrating post #100!

Book Journal, Bookish Things Tag, Books, Douglas Coupland, Dracula, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reading, Top 50

#2 |First Lines Friday

‘I am in here.’

Book Journal, Books, Cult Fiction, David Foster Wallace, DNF, Fiction, First Lines Friday, Reading

‘Severance’ – Ling Ma

Give me a dystopian survival journey OR a workplace centred coming of age tale. Not both.

Book Journal, Book Review, Dystopia, Fiction, Ling Ma, Reading, Severance

‘The Haunting of Hill House’ – Shirley Jackson

Hill House is no place for the living

2018, Book Journal, Fiction, Gothic, Reading, Shirley Jackson, Winter Read

‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ – Shirley Jackson

London, November 2018 Overview Living in the Blackwood family home with her older sister Constance and her Uncle Julian, Katherine … More

2018, Book Journal, Fiction, Gothic, Halloween, Reading, Shirley Jackson, Winter Read

‘The Robber Bride’ – Margaret Atwood

Three friends attend the funeral of a shared enemy and aren’t prepared for her surprise return.

2018, Book Journal, Fiction, Literary, Margaret Atwood, Reading

‘Lady Oracle’ – Margaret Atwood

‘Most of the time I was on the side of the optimistic caterpillar; but in my gloomiest moments I would thing, So what if I turn into a butterfly? Butterflies die too.’

2018, Book Journal, Fiction, Literary, Margaret Atwood, Reading

#1 | First Lines Friday

‘…I still have to waste my afternoon with Dr. Harrison at Mandela Lodge. The guy’s an idiot…’

Boarding School, Book Journal, First Lines Friday, Reading, The Truth About Lies, YA Fiction

‘Worst. Person. Ever’ – Douglas Coupland

This story runs on a humorously cruel engine.

2018, Book Journal, Douglas Coupland, Fiction, Humour, Reading, Survivor

‘Nomad’ – James Swallow

A thriller that ticks all the boxes.

Beach Read, Book Journal, Books, Fiction, James Swallow, Spy, Thriller

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