“We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too."
Hello everyone, There’s a bit of a delay between me finishing this book and me posting this review – I left my previous job and I went on holiday…and then I started a new job and went on another holiday and got engaged so yeah it’s been a bit crazy! Octavia Butler “It’s about learning …
Hi everyone, Still riding the Egyptian high (and still one more book for Egypt to come) and I think I will do for the rest of my life. “This is a book about a man whose life and death became front page need throughout the world between the autumn of 1922 and the spring of …
Well hello again everyone, I’ve been so far behind on book reviews and blog posts that I think I’m nearly up together again…for now! So what have I got for you today? Well remember Woman in the Mists? A book written by Farley Mowat about Dian Fossey. Well this book is also about Dian Fossey …
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 all, “As for me, when we moved to Oakfield in 1930, I was more of a nuisance than a help. But once my dad learnt the value of marketing, and how a photo of a little girl with an animal would melt a newspaper editor’s heart like nothing else, I earned my keep.” This …
Blurb on back of book:
Hurt people hurt people.
Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.