“We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too."
Hello all, This next book isn’t from my Challenge 2020, instead this is one recommended by someone very close and very important and special to me. “There’s a lot of love and peace in the air…but not necessarily in the air around me.” My favourite kind of books is those that are recommended to me …
Hello, The next book in my Challenge 2020 is a book by a dead author! For this category I chose, 1984 – George Orwell. 1984, the world is divided. Three states now exist after World War II – Oceania (British isles, America, Pacific and Australia), Eurasia (Europe and Russia) and Eastasia (the rest the world). …
Hello everyone, The next book in Challenge 2020 is a Nobel prize winner – Toni Morrison with Beloved. It is the mid-1800s. An era is ending. Slavery is coming under the attack from the abolitionists. Meet Sethe, born into slavery and haunted by her past. She has escaped to Ohio but 18 years have passed …
Hello everyone, The next read in Challenge 2020 is a book set in Africa – Mark of the Lion. Set in colonial Africa, we meet Jade del Cameron, a young American who can wield a rifle better than any man and after driving an ambulance in World War I, she could do with a break. …
Hello all, So we come to the third in the Divergent trilogy – Allegiant. “Every question that can be answered must be answered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must be challenged when they arise. Wrong answers must be corrected. Correct answers must be affirmed.” – Erudite faction manifesto We have followed Tris from …
Hello all, It’s my birthday eve and so I’m going to grace you all with my second book review in two days but this is a Challenge 2020 review. Now for Insurgent, the second book in the Divergent trilogy and sequel to Divergent. DO NOT CONTINUE READING IF YOU HAVEN’T READ DIVERGENT YET…THERE ARE SPOILERS …
Hello everyone, My next book in Challenge 2020 is the Divergent Trilogy. Divergent is set in a dystopian Chicago, where society is divided up into five factions, each of which is dedicated to one virtue of human nature: Candor (honesty); Abnegation (selflessness); Dauntless (bravery); Amity (peace) and Erudite (intelligence). “They divided into factions that sought …
Hello all, “This was the first of many delightful days never to be forgotten.” On the 27th December 1831, a young 22 year old man named Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle and set out on a voyage of a lifetime. A voyage that would not only change his life; from a young man with little …
Hello all, So the second book in my Challenge 2020 is a book that was gifted to me as a part of my Secret Santa gift at work. The person gave it to me as they viewed this as their favourite book and they wanted to share that with another lover of books, me. Essentially …
Hello everyone, So by now you’ve either read my previous reviews of His Dark Materials and La Belle Sauvage or you’ve skipped ahead, spoilers dearies! You have been warned. The Secret Commonwealth is the second book in The Book of Dust trilogy and is set after the His Dark Materials series. “Everything possible to be …