Book Lover’s Guide to Serbia: Novi Sad & Subotica
Five nights in Belgrade and we’re off again, this time to Novi Sad and then Subotica. Up here to the north of Serbia, the architecture shifts and changes, the c...
Review: ‘The Pigeon’ – Patrick Süskind 1987
My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Pigeon is a truly strange and vividly intense novella. The narrative covers a single 24 hour period in the life of a Frenchman, with...
Review: ‘This Savage Song’ – Victoria Schwab 2016
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars A truly monstrous novel that reminds us that sometimes the real monsters are not really monsters at all. One of the best YA fantasy/sc...
Review: ‘The Girl at Midnight’ – Melissa Grey 2015
My rating: 2.5 of 5 stars A book I wanted so badly to love, but in the end could not. The Girl At Midnight has all the elements of both a great book and a YA cl...
‘The Girl At Midnight’ September Book Club Discussion
Let’s talk about The Girl at Midnight! I’m trying out a new style of discussion questions, so please let me know what you think! Feel free to go bey...
Review: ‘It Ends With Us’ – Colleen Hoover 2016
My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s Ends With Us is an important and powerful novel. It may not be a perfect book, but the way in which domestic violence is addressed ...
Review: ‘1Q84’ – Haruki Murakami 2010
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Note: This review is for the entire trilogy. Another exploration of isolation and loneliness, overlaid this time with power struggles fr...
How to Style Your Bookshelf + Bookshelf Tour
By popular request may I present: My bookshelves! (Well, the 2 main ones anyway). This video covers: – My organisation system – Top 5 bookshelf styl...
Review: ‘Butterflies in November’ – Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir 2014
My rating: 2 of 5 stars An incredibly strange novel in which a fortune teller’s predictions come true and not much else happens. I really wanted to like Butterf...
Review: ‘Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief’ – Rick Riordan 2005
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Great book for Middle-Grade aged readers, but not suited to adult readers without the glow of nostalgia. This review needs 2 parts, beca...