Read If You Like
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Read, If You Like: Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Is it hugely shameful to have completely missed this children’s classic when I was an actual child? I don’t know how it passed me by, especially as there’s been a copy on my shelf for ages. I’d have loved this story 15 years ago… to be honest I quite loved it now. So let’s not Continue reading
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Read, If You Like: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Welcome back to my occasional book recommendation series! I don’t like to overtly review books, because what I disliked about a novel might be what someone else liked about it, so it feels unfair to the author to write a post moaning about a novel I didn’t like. I also personally try to avoid reading Continue reading
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Read, If You Like… The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
When Isobel gave me The Hitchiker’s Guide at Christmas in our newly-minted Secret Santa tradition, I thought it was because she’d heard me talk about how it was one of those books that I’d always wanted to read but hadn’t gotten around to (also on that list: War and Peace, most of Artemis Fowl, the Chilcot Continue reading
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Read, If You Like… Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson
This is the second in a series. Possibly I am onto a good thing here. It helps I can write them in ten minutes, but let’s not be picky… Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (2015) Read, if you like: Shapeshifting Heroes versus villians Male characters with beautiful flowing hair Female characters who don’t have beautiful flowing Continue reading
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