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Review of ‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen

05/08/2020 nsford 11 Comments

Northanger Abbey is a fun read, with well-defined characters and a strong sense of place. It’s also a defence of…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, fiction, Jane Austen, reviews

Review of ‘Final Girls’ by Riley Sager

03/08/2020 nsford 12 Comments

This is a good example of a crime thriller which keeps you guessing. Although I wasn’t as gripped by it…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, crime fiction, fiction, reviews, Riley Sager, thrillers

The time-travelling bookworm: ‘Ethan Frome’ by Edith Wharton

01/08/2020 nsford 9 Comments

I studied this novella for a ‘Women in American Literature’ course. I ended up focusing exclusively on Edith Wharton! She…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, classics, Edith Wharton, fiction, reading

Review of ‘Plague’ by Jean Ure

29/07/2020 nsford 9 Comments

Re-reading this slim YA novel was an uncanny experience, as it seems quite prescient. It was first published in 1989…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Jean Ure, reading, YA fiction

Fictional holidays from hell!

25/07/2020 nsford 19 Comments

Many people will not be having a summer holiday this year. To make you feel better about staying at home,…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, fiction, H G Wells, J R R Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, reading, Roald Dahl, Stephen King

Review of ‘The Trouble with Henry and Zoe’ by Andy Jones

23/07/2020 nsford 9 Comments

The trouble with The Trouble with Henry and Zoe was that I didn’t like the characters of Henry and Zoe…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Andy Jones, books, fiction, reviews

What happened when I used a random generator to choose my re-reads

21/07/2020 nsford 13 Comments

Some time ago, I explained how I choose which book on my shelf to read next. I was only using…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, Christopher Pike, fiction, Harper Lee, J K Rowling, Jerry Spinelli, John Wyndham, Mary Shelley, Mervyn Peake, reading, Stella Gibbons

Review of ‘Miss Benson’s Beetle’ by Rachel Joyce

19/07/2020 nsford 14 Comments

A warm-hearted and surprising adventure story, Miss Benson’s Beetle has the classic pairing of two contrasting characters who find friendship…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, Rachel Joyce, reviews

Review of ‘The Beach’ by Alex Garland

17/07/2020 nsford 16 Comments

What do you get if you mix The Lord of the Flies, Castaway and a lot of dope? The Beach,…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: Alex Garland, books, fiction, reviews

Memoirs vs. biographies

15/07/2020 nsford 18 Comments

Memoirs. Biographies. What are the differences? How do they relate to each other? In this post I take a look…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: biographies, books, memoir, non-fiction, reading

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