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Spoiler Alerts – please do not read any further if you would like a surprise. You have been warned…. How true is Bridgerton Season 2 to the book? Some of the characters names are the same, I’ll give them that… Otherwise the rest of the storylines appear to be entirely made up by the productionContinue reading “How True Is Bridgerton Season 2 To The Book?”

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. When a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty, but they still have aContinue reading “Book Review: The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman”

A beautiful, eerie hotel in the Swiss Alps, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, is the last place Detective Elin Warner wants to be. But her estranged brother has invited her there for his engagement party and she feels she has no choice but to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, ElinContinue reading “Book Review: The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse”

Dear Me, You worked hard this week. It’s been a little rough, but you were pretty great. You did everything you needed to do – it’s okay that you didn’t get the extra stuff done. Only two things need to happen today – walk the dog and make some food. You cleaned yesterday. Everything isContinue reading “Dear Me, From Me”

A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them – setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course. Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman.Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register.OneContinue reading “Book Review: The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner”

When Aleisha discovers a crumpled reading list tucked into a tattered library book, it sparks an extraordinary journey. From timeless stories of love and friendship to an epic journey accross the Pacific Ocean with a boy and a tiger in a boat, the list opens a gateway to new and wonderful worlds – just whenContinue reading “Book Review: The Reading List, by Sara Nisha Adams”

Nora’s life has been going from bad to worse. Then, at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question:Continue reading “Book Review: The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig”

Six year old Sheila was abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. A survivor of horrific abuse, she never spoke and never cried. She was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation – exceptContinue reading “Book Review: One Child, by Torey Hayden”

“It’s been two weeks since my last post” I realised with slight surprise as I opened my blog page for the first time in what felt like only a few days. Nope, it’s been weeks. “Does this make me less of a book blogger?” I wonder, as I gaze around Book Twitter at all ofContinue reading “Why Haven’t I Posted Anything?”