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  • 5 stars,  favourites,  science fiction

    Review: ‘Ready Player One’ by Ernest Cline

    Rating: 5 out of 5 stars It’s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We’re out of oil. We’ve wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes…

    March 14, 2015
  • epic fantasy,  favourites,  giveaway,  re-reads,  Wheel of Time

    Wheel of Time Re-Read #1: The Eye of the World

    It’s impossible for me to be objective about this series.  I first read The Eye of the World when I was in high school, I think when I was about 13.  It was my first real brush with epic fantasy and…

    January 4, 2015
  • favourites

    The Top Ten Books of 2014

    How has Christmas been and gone?! I adore Christmas and all of its sparkly, gift-giving fabulousness and the last few days have been a run of family, friends, too much food, plenty of prosecco and, perhaps most importantly, no work.…

    December 28, 2014
  • 4.5 stars,  favourites,  literary fiction

    Review: ‘The Penelopiad’ by Margaret Atwood

    Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars “In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope – wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy – is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the…

    May 28, 2013
  • favourites,  Top Ten Tuesday

    Top Ten Favourite Books I Read Before I Was A Blogger

    I *love* this week’s topic.  I’ve spent pretty much all of my time as a book blogger getting caught up in what books everybody’s reading RIGHT NOW and posting about the books I’ve just read and cooing over the books…

    April 9, 2013
  • 5 stars,  classic,  favourites,  literary fiction

    Literary Fiction Review: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood

    Synopsis courtesy of GoodReads Rating: 5 out of 5 starsThis is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate ‘Handmaids’ under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding…

    March 9, 2013
  • 5 stars,  book v film,  favourites

    Book v. Film: ‘The Princess Bride’ by William Goldman

    I’d had the book of this on my wishlist for *ages* when both Ellie and Hanna kindly bought me it for my birthday last year.  The obvious problem with having two people whose opinions you respect send you the same…

    February 23, 2013
  • 5 stars,  favourites,  literary fiction

    Literary Fiction Review: ‘The Secret History’ by Donna Tartt

    Rating: 5 out of 5 starsSynopsis (Courtesy of GoodReads)A  misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and…

    November 3, 2012
  • favourites,  reading habits

    Resolutions: 2011 catch-up and 2012 promises

    Gosh, it doesn’t seem like any time at all since I was last posting some resolutions! 2011 has just flown by.  It saw me turn 25 (bleugh) and LitAddictedBrit turn 1 (yey).  It also saw me start using Twitter (@LitAddictedBrit)…

    January 2, 2012
  • favourites,  reading habits

    2011 in Books: A Survey

    So that was Christmas!  I hope you all had a wonderful time and there was plenty of whatever it is that makes the holidays special for you 🙂 Coming out of the food induced stupor and back into the world…

    December 28, 2011
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