“We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too."
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, Challenge 2020, what book do we have next? A book that has been banned – Thirteen Reasons Why. Now why was this banned? It was banned in America, mainly in schools and colleges because it was seen to be glamorising suicide. Here in the UK, I think most of us only know …
Hello all, So the next book in my challenge 2020, is from the Goodreads winner category; Red, White and Royal Blue. Dashing Prince Henry, Prince of Wales. The handsome and charismatic FSOTUS (First son of the United States) and son of the first female president of the USA, Alex Claremont-Diaz. Two separate, high profile individuals …
Hello all, Now this is not a book from my challenge 2020. This book was sent to me by the author in exchange for a review after reaching out on the Twitterverse. Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, nah that’s Iron Man. But it’s close to the main man in this book, Beckett Anderson. A business man …
Hello all, I thought I hadn’t posted a blog post in a while so I thought I’d summarise the first quarter of the year in books! So as many of you know, I set myself the challenge of reading 26 books this year – Challenge 2020. So let’s see how far I’ve gotten shall we? …
Hello all, For the next book in Challenge 2020, I chose a Booker Prize winning book for my next read. This happened to be Schindler’s Ark (published in the US as Schindler’s List and in the UK as Schindler’s Ark). Factoid Alert 🚨 The Booker Prize award is a literary prize which awarded on a …
Hello all, For the next Challenge 2020 book, I thought it would be apt to choose this one, as it is now the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust. Now before I begin, I’d like to state that there may be swear words in this review due to quotes taken from this book. There may also …
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 all, Whilst I’m well aware that January 2020 is well under way and drawing to a close, Chinese New Year is just around the corner so I thought I’d take the opportunity to write about my top reads from 2019! I know I splurged a lot of stats in the 2019 review but this …