“We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too."
Hello all, Time for a non-fiction book, I know I don’t read many, the last one I did read was Voyage of the Beagle. This book I’m about to review isn’t a part of Challenge 2020 (I promise I’m still getting through that though)! This is a book like no other – about a strong, …
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, “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, 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, “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 …
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” JM Barrie, Peter Pan Hello all, Time for something a bit different now. Now we all know about Thriller, Billie Jean and Black or White, am I right? But how much do we know about the untimely death of a pop icon? …
Hello all, “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises So for my next review, something a bit different. An animal themed book. A true story. About a horse that defied all odds, whose stature and quirks set him aside from the rest. This is …
“The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.” Alfred Adler, psychiatrist. “We need lies…in order to live.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher This is a tale of the plague but not quite as you know it. “All England was rotting.” The book is …