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June: Reading Wrap-Up

Was in a bit of a slump this month…

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Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata

There really is somewhere for everyone.

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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.’

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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton

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

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2018 Reading Wrap-up

Significantly overdue but here’s my 2018 in books

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50 Bookish Things for Post #100

Celebrating post #100!

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#2 |First Lines Friday

‘I am in here.’

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‘The Silent Companions’ – Laura Purcell

Setting a gothic novel around people-shaped flat, wooden paintings is going to work very well or not at all.

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‘Severance’ – Ling Ma

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

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‘The Haunting of Hill House’ – Shirley Jackson

Hill House is no place for the living

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‘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

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‘The Robber Bride’ – Margaret Atwood

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

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