Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Autumn To-Be-Read List

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.

This week’s topic is: Top Ten Books On My Spring 2014 TBR List (to be read list)

I’m enjoying the start of Autumn down here in Australia. The weather is starting to cool off slightly so going outside is almost bearable! 😛

Autumn 2014 Releases I Can’t Wait To Read:

  

Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor (April 17th, 2014) – I love this series and can’t wait to find out what happens next. It’s beautifully written and a series I recommend to adult sand young adults alike.

The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E Smith (April 10th, 2014 ) – This is What Happy Looks Like and The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight were both lovely reads and I’m looking forward to this next book by Jennifer E Smith

Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong (April 8th, 2014 ) – I’ve been on a bit of a Kelley Armstrong kick lately. It might because Bitten was turned into a TV show or it might just be that I discovered my Women of the Otherworld books in a box a few months ago… but she’s a great writer and I enjoy the worlds and characters she creates.

 

Books On My Bedside Table

These are the books I have gotten for review that I’m reading in the next few weeks.

YA

The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J Maas – A set of short stories which show just how Celaena Sardothien became the legend assassin that we’ve come to know and love from the Throne of Glass series. This book can be read without prior knowledge of the series.

Emnity by CJ Andrews – A new dystopia novel by a debut New Zealand author.

Dangerous by Shannon Hale – A teen goes off to space camp and finds herself changed in ways she never expected.

Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman – This is a book of short stories selected by Neil Gaiman. It’s lovely. Before each story, Neil gives a little introduction as to why he selected the story and it makes the compliation that extra special.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M Valante – A lovely middle grade book about a girl named September and her journeys to Fairyland

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavendar by Leslye Walton – This book is gorgeous. I love the cover and it sounds equal parts emotional and beautiful.

Adult (Non-YA)

Reviews for these books will be posted on my goodreads and The Reading Room accounts but not on this blog.

 

The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon – This is a dystopian along the same lines of 1984. It’s not set in a post apocalyptic world but the world is changing. People over reliant on their smartphone type accessories are losing words and books are becoming extinct. There’s a mystery involving a missing person and secret society. Sounds incredible.

The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon – This is a story about a woman who gets inherited a unique tea store and along with others, she has to try to keep it afloat whilst maintaining her own life.

 

Forever and Always on my TBR List

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand – because I’ve been trying to finish this book for over ten years… and that alone makes me feel old 😛

I can’t wait to see what books everyone else plans on reading in the next few months. And I have no doubt that I’ll be finding all sorts of brilliant sounding books and adding them to my own TBR list!

Top Ten Tuesday: All Time Favourite Books in X Genre (Children’s Books)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.

The topic for this week is: Top Ten All Time Favourite Books in X Genre

I normally go with young adult for these kinds of lists but I wanted to do something different. So the genre I’m choosing is Children’s Books. This is a list of the ten books that I read over and over (and over again!) when I was a child. 

    

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss – I memorized this book and recited it all the time. Part of the appeal may have been annoying my older brothers but this book was always a fun one for me.

The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base – If you’ve ever seen a Graeme Base book then I think you can understand why this book is on my list. The Eleventh Hour and Animalia have the most gorgeous illustrations. The story is entertaining too.

The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter – The magical world of Peter Rabbit was always a favourite of mine. Great pictures and a funny story about animals and their secret lives. Mrs Tiggy-Winkle was always the one I wanted my mum to read to me the most. 

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans – “In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines
In two straight lines they broke their bread
And brushed their teeth and went to bed.
They left the house at half past nine
In two straight lines in rain or shine-
The smallest one was Madeline”   

I think that’s all I need to say about Madeline…. 

The Paperbag Princess by Robert Munsch – This book always made me a little sad… but I read it over and over anyway. I think it’s one of the first stories I remember reading with a kick-arse heroine. And plus – I think I would have preferred wearing a paperbag rather than a fancy dress any day! 

 

 

    

A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond – He’s from deepest, darkest Peru! And he wears wellingtons. Enough said. 

Charlotte’s Web by EB White – The ending might be a little devastating but I love this book and love the friendship. 

Anne of Green Gables by LM Montomery – I adored Anne. And her relationships with all the people she comes in contact with. Diana the best friend, Gilbert the boy who calls her Carrots and puts her pigtails in inkwells, her foster parents the Cuthberts and even Mrs Rachel Linde. I read the first few books over and over and would read them again now because they are lovely. 

Anything by Roald Dahl. Matilda, The BFG and the Witches – these were staples of my childhood. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was amazing too.

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd – I have a niece who is almost two and she loves being read to. I’ve read her so many books but my favourite ones to read to her are the Hairy Maclary ones. They are fun to read with great pictures and a fantastic rhythm. 

There you have it. Ten of my favourite children’s books. Some you may have heard of, others maybe not. But they are all books I enjoyed and still enjoy as an adult. (Oh! And I just finished my list but anything by Enid Blyton goes on here too. From Noddy to the Faraway Tree to the Famous Five. My childhood was defined by her books and I can’t believe I forgot her!)

Top Ten Tuesday: Popular Authors I’ve Never Read…

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.

The topic for this week is: Top Ten Popular Authors I’ve Never Read… 

I found this week’s list hard to compile. Most popular authors that I’ve heard of I endeavour to read. I like seeing what is out there and if people are talking about a book – I want to read it too so I can compare my opinions!

Here are ten popular Young/New Adult authors that I’ve not read – yet. (Links take you to the author’s page on goodreads and I’ve put the titles of some of these authors books/series just incase you’re unfamiliar with them too)

1. Garth Nix – The Abhorsen series, The Keys to the Kingdom series
2. Libba Bray – The Gemma Doyle trilogy, Beauty Queens, The Diviners
3. Alexandra Bracken – The Darkest Minds series
4. Veronica Rossi – Under the Never Sky series
5. Simone Elkeles – Perfect Chemistry series, Wild Cards series, How to Ruin series
6. Ann Aguirre – The Samantha Jax series, Razorland series
7. Abbi Glines – Too Far series, The Vincent Boys series
8. Ransom Riggs – Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series
9. Jennifer Echols – Going too far, Forget You, Such A Rush
10. Ellen Hopkins – Crank, Impulse, Burned

After thinking about this topic for a while, I was on a roll. It wasn’t as hard as I first thought… but my to-read list is now a little heavier now than when I started!

Top Ten Tuesday: Favourite Words

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.

The topic for this week is: Top Ten Tuesday REWIND! (Pick from previous topics that you want to do again or may have missed)

I’ve decided to pick a topic that I have never done before and share with you ten of my favourite words.

There are certain things that make me like a word. I love words with Q’s, X’s and Z’s. Words which are fun to say is also something that could put a word on my favourite list. And also – when the meaning seems to fit the word even if you didn’t know the definition.

All of the definitions for my list this week came from dictionary.com

scha·den·freu·de

[shahd-n-froi-duh]

noun

satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune.

Origin: 
1890–95;  < German,  equivalent to Schaden  harm + Freude  joy

u·biq·ui·tous

[yoo-bik-wi-tuhs]

adjective

existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.

Also, u·biq·ui·tar·y  [yoo-bik-wi-ter-ee]

Origin: 
1830–40; ubiquit(y) + -ous

 ty·ran·ni·cal

[ti-ran-i-kuhl, tahy-]

adjective

1. of or characteristic of a tyrant.

2. unjustly cruel, harsh, or severe; arbitrary or oppressive; despotic: a tyrannical ruler.

Also, ty·ran·nic.

Origin: 
1530–40;  < Latin tyrannic ( us ) (< Greek tyrannikós,  equivalent to týrann ( os ) tyrant + -ikos -ic) + -al1

flum·mox

[fluhm-uhks]

verb (used with object) Informal.

to bewilder; confound; confuse.

Origin: 
1830–40;  origin uncertain

non·sen·si·cal

[non-sen-si-kuhl]

adjective

1. (of words or language) having little or no meaning;making little or no sense: A baby’s babbling isappealingly nonsensical.

2. (of behavior, conduct, actions, etc.) foolish, senseless, fatuous, or absurd: His nonsensical behaviorwas unusual for such a serious person.

3. objectionable, impudent, insubordinate: I refuse to listen to that nonsensical gossip.

4. of trifling importance or of little or no use: I’ve had more than enough of your nonsensical advice!

Origin: 
nonsense + -ical

ser·en·dip·i·ty

[ser-uhn-dip-i-tee]

noun

1. an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.

2. good fortune; luck: the serendipity of getting the first job she applied for.

Origin: 
1754; Serendip + -ity; Horace Walpole so named a faculty possessed by the heroes of a fairy tale calledThe Three Princes of Serendip

be·spoke

[bih-spohk]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of bespeak.

adjective

2. British .

a. (of clothes) made to individual order; custom-made: a bespoke jacket.

b. making or selling such clothes: a bespoke tailor.

3. Older Use. engaged to be married; spoken for.

Origin: 
1745–55 for def 2

moist

[moist]

adjective, moist·er, moist·est.

1. moderately or slightly wet; damp.

2. (of the eyes) tearful.

3. accompanied by or connected with liquid or moisture.

4. (of the air) having high humidity.

Origin: 
1325–75; Middle English moiste  < Middle French;  connected with Latin mūcidus mucid

she·nan·i·gan

[shuh-nan-i-guhn]

noun Informal.

1. Usually, shenanigans.

a. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans.

b. deceit; trickery.

2. a mischievous or deceitful trick, practice, etc.

Origin: 
1850–55,  Americanism; of obscure origin

quix·ot·ic

[kwik-sot-ik]

adjective

1. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) resembling or befitting Don Quixote.

2. extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.

3. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.

Also, quix·ot·i·cal.

Origin: 
1805–15;  ( Don) Quixote + -ic

So there you go 🙂
Here are ten of my favourite words – I think Quixotic is my favourite of the lot as it uses two of my favourite letters, it’s fairly uncommon and I like the idea of something being extravagantly impractical.

I hope you’ve all had a great list. Please leave me a comment linking back to your TTT – I love checking out what people have and I’m interested to see what topics everyone chose for this week!

Top Ten Tuesday: Reasons I Love to Read/Blog

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.

The topic for this week is: Top Ten Reasons I Love to Read/Blog

1. I love getting to know like-minded people from completely different backgrounds. Before I found goodreads and book blogs, I often felt like there was no one I could talk to about the books I liked to read. But I have found so many people and so many more books than I even knew existed now that I blog about books. It’s amazing.

2. The things I’ve learned. I feel like I learn something new – either some kind of fact or something about myself – from every book I read. It’s not always something big or profound but I love learning new things.

3 I’m thinking more in-depth about the books that I’m reading. I like writing reviews (which is something I’ve learned about myself since blogging) and writing them makes me think about a book in a different way than before. It’s a semi-organized way to get my feelings out on the page and a way for me to really stop and think about how I felt about events and characters.

4. Blogging and Reading both improve writing skills. I think I’m becoming a better writer and better and converting my thoughts into words on a page. Reading certainly improves my vocabulary.

5. Apparently there are studies that find reading literary fiction improves empathy. Whilst I don’t read much Dickens, I do like to think that reading is improving myself.

6. Reading is the easiest and cheapest way to travel and live multiple lives.

7. Blogging gives me a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. My blog may not be the biggest or most read out there – but I’m proud of what I’ve achieved. I like getting the opportunities that blogging has given me and getting to know people who are passionate about books and reading like I am. There may be days when it seems like a bit too much work but overall I’m really happy with what I’ve done.

8. Reading is getting me fit! I’ve been listening to audiobooks lately whilst I’ve been going for my daily exercise. I’m not the most fitness happy person but when I’m in the middle of an exciting part of the book and it’s time for me to finish my run – it just gives me the motivation I need to get up early tomorrow just to find out what’s going to happen next!

9. It makes me happy. I love getting to experience things for the first times with characters – despite having gone though that myself or conversely NEVER going to have those opportunities. It makes me happy to fall in love a thousand times and the times when I’m so proud of characters for their decisions and actions that I feel my heart burst. It’s happy.

10. It gives me an excuse to drink lots of tea…

I love reading. And I also love blogging. I can’t see either of those things changing any time soon. I love to hear from all of you so feel free to leave me a comment. What do you love about reading? What about Blogging? What are your thoughts about tea? Hope you all have a great week ahead.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Swoon-worthy Characters

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.

The topic for this week is: Top Ten Books That Will Make You Swoon

Thinking about what makes me swoon in a book – it’s when characters have a certain something special about them. So I’m changing it up. My list is going to be books with characters who make me swoon (also – I think I need to stop using the word swoon as it’s making me a little crazy).

So here we go. Here are ten books which I consider to have perfectly swoon-worthy leading men! (Clicking the book title will take you to the book’s page on goodreads.)

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (Étienne St. Clair)

Easy by Tammara Webber (Lucas)

Crash Into You by Katie McGarry (Isaac)

Unearthly series by Cynthia Hand (Tucker)

Healer series by Maria V Snyder (Kerrick)

Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas (Chaol Westfall)

All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill (Finn)

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (Captain Thorne)

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson (Joe Fontaine)

Vampire Academy series & Bloodlines series both by Richelle Mead (Dimitri & Adrian)

 

These are the books with characters which make me swoon. Any you liked? Any you hated? Do you have any recommendations for me based on this week’s list? Feel free to leave me a comment. Happy Tuesday! 🙂

Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Will Make You Cry!

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.

The topic for this week is: Top Ten Books That Will Make You Cry!

I’m not usually a very emotional person. But there are some books that made me tear up and on the odd occasion burst into tears. Extremely embarrassing if it’s when you’re on public transport on the way to work or school…. but those are the books that I’m putting on this week’s list. The books that I couldn’t restrain my emotions even when in very public and oh-so embarrassing places…

• I am David by Anne Holm
• Anne of the Island by LM Montgomery
• Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I read all of these books before I was a teenager and I remember being devastated by them. I am David was the first book I remember crying in public over. My year 5 teacher read the book aloud to us and it was the saddest thing I ever heard. Anne of Green Gables may not seem that sad but in Anne of the Island… I was holding in tears hoping that Gilbert would be okay! The next book, Goodnight Mister Tom was a book I owned for years before I finally read it. My mother bought it for me but I thought it looked boring but when I finally read it…. definitely a book where I used a few tissues. Little Women is a book that I have read over and over throughout the years but the first time I read it – I wasn’t expecting certain things to happen. There were sad tears in this book but also ones of frustration. I wrote my first fanfiction (before I knew what fanfiction was) rewriting the ending because I wasn’t a fan of how everything went down.

   

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
• Speechless/Saving June by Hannah Harrington
• Bird by Crystal Chan
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

These books I’ve read more recently. I won’t be surprised if I see TFiOS on my people’s lists this week. John Green certainly knows how to write a heartbreaking novel. If I Stay was one that I was expecting to be sad… but I wasn’t quite prepared. I held up okay right until the grandfather said his part but after that I couldn’t contain myself. The last Harry Potter was one that made me cry. Not so much for the story but the fact that it was over. The series that I’d been reading and anticipating for so many years and then it was just over… heartbreaking. Hannah Harrington is an author who writes powerful contemporary novels with a bitter-sweet edge. Both Speechless and Saving June both moved me and I recommend them both. I reviewed Bird last week and it definitely belongs on this week’s list – made me tear up a little. And last on my list this week is The Storyteller. I read this one last year and wasn’t expecting to be affected considering I’ve read quite a few Jodi Picoult novels and never got too emotional over them but this one is touching and tragic.

      

These are the books that made me cry/tear up. There’s a bit of variety here but for possibly the first time ever – it’s mostly contemporary and not another paranormal/dystpian list! Any here that made you cry? Any that you would recommend I read? How about any stories of a book making you show a lot of emotion in public? All stories are welcome! Feel free to leave me a comment. Happy Tuesday to all.

Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I Would NEVER Want To Trade Places With

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.

The topic for this week is: Top Ten Worlds I’d Never Want To Live In OR Characters I’d Never Want To Trade Places With

Going with the second option – as much as I adore certain characters there is no way I would EVER want to live their lives. I’m not sure I’d handle it anywhere near as well as they do. 

Dystopian Heroines:

These characters are all amazing. They are kick-arse and manage to keep their principles throughout all they have to face. I’m not anywhere near as brave as any of them nor do I have any desire to switch places. They’ve all been though so much and I’m not sure I’d last a day in their shoes.

• Penryn from the Penryn and the End of Days series by Susan Ee
• Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
• Tris Prior from the Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth
• Yukiko from The Lotus War series by Jay Kristoff
• Paige from The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

    

The Devastating

These are characters that I remember reading about and getting quite emotional. I would never be able to go though what they did without having an emotional breakdown – or seven. Just reading about their lives and circumstances was devastating – I have no desire to trade places with these people.

• Fontaine and Eponine from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• Hazel from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

 

The Ones I Genuinely Dislike

There are some characters that I truly despise. I would never want to go within a mile of these people and swapping lives with them – absolutely not!

• Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
• Mr Collins from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Christian Gray from Fifty Shades of Gray by EL James (also Edward Cullen from Twilight as to me they’re the same person).

   

Are there any of these characters that you WOULD want to swap with? Any you think I’ve missed? Feel free to leave me a comment. Happy Tuesday to everyone 🙂

Top Ten Tuesday: My Reading Wishlist…

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.

The topic for this week is:  Top Ten Things On My Reading Wishlist (if you could make authors write about these things you would. Could be a specific type of character, an issue tackled, a time period, a certain plot, etc.)

It’s been two hours and I still don’t have a single thing on my list for this week.

I think that’s possibly because for most things I’m interested in there have been novels written with those characters or setting or whatever.

Here’s what I’ve come up with for this week’s list:

1. A modern retelling of John Keats and Fanny Brawne’s relationship – epistolary fiction preferably.

2. More modern retellings of the Aladdin and the Lamp story.

3. A story about a psychic who can predict how their future relationships will end before they start. Pretty sure that there will be a twist of fate and they don’t see their soul mate coming.

4. Were turkeys. I’ve always love the idea of a person being able to turn into a turkey. I like shapeshifters but they’re often just human to wolf. I want something a little different. Maybe Elephant weres or people who turn into fish.

5. People who have died get the chance to take a pill that will take them back twenty-four hours and it’s up to them how they change the past. I think I’ve read one or two that are somewhat similar to this but not quite.

6. The Loch Ness Monster reveals himself as the King of Atlantis

7. A psychic is haunted by an ex who helps the psychic right all the wrongs they’ve committed in their life.

8. A novel inspired by this picture

9. or this one

10. Or this one 🙂

How did everyone else go with this week’s topic? I can’t wait to go around and read what others had for this week. I have a feeling it’s going to be an interesting read!  Feel free to leave me a comment – I love reading them! 🙂

Top Ten Tuesday: 2014 Debuts I’m Excited For!

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.

Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join.

The topic for this week is: Top Ten 2014 Debuts I’m Excited For! 

For this week’s list I’ve tried to list books that aren’t in the series I’ve talked about on the blog before. Late last year I did mention five debut novels that I can’t wait to read (Top Ten Tuesday: 2014 Releases I’m dying to read) and I’m still very excited for those books but there are so many new authors with brilliant books being released this year that it was not a struggle to mention ten more that sound amazing.

Bird by Crystal Chan – This one is cheating. Because I was lucky enough to get a review copy of this book and am currently reading it. It’s gorgeous. It’s an emotional read (or at least it has been for me) and so very beautifully written. I feed no shame pimping this book as part of my top ten for this week.

Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy – I love the sound of this one. A girl with cancer and a not so great prognosis decides to complete her bucket list and settle scores only to find out that she’s gone into remission.

Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira – I saw this book on many lists last year and knew I had to put it on my to-read list. It looks amazing and I definitely have a soft spot for books with letters in them.

The Promise of Amazing by Robin Constantine – Average girl falls for bad boy jock. It might be a cliché but it’s one of those that I usually like reading about. Some of the reviews I’ve read for this book haven’t been all that favourable but I love cute contemporary romances and the blurb makes this one sound adorable (and I love the idea of an Arthurian catering hall).

The Falconer by Elizabeth May – Heiress. Debutant. Murderer. A new generation of heroines has arrived. Need I say more? I think that it’s been listed by people as YA steampunk with fae just makes me that just more eager to read it!

Half Bad by Sally Green – Good witches, Bad Witches and a teenage boy who is a bit of both. Sounds interesting.

Camelot Burning by Kathryn Rose – I’ve always liked Arthurian legends so this new series by debut author Kathryn Rose definitely appeals to me.

Open Road Summer by Emery Lord – Road trips, the boy next door and music? Sounds like a contemporary romance not to be missed.

Falls the Shadow by Stefanie Gaither – Creepy murderous clones. This looks like a scifi novel that I’d love.

Fates by Lanie Bross – Mythology, falling in love with the one you’re fated never to be with. Sounds deliciously heartbreaking!

         

 

If you’ve already read these books – I’d love to know what you thought of them. Any debuts I’ve not mentioned that you think I’d like – please let me know! Thanks for visiting my list for this week.