Category: Book reviews & recommendations
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Spotlight On: A Fall Fairy Tale by Nicola Werner
Remember those leave piles in your back yard? Did you jump into them? Did you hide inside them and let the fall sun tickle your skin? When I lived in the US with my parents and my sister, I had the possibility to enjoy a real autumn (actually quite a…
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When a dog changes everything… Book review of Buster & Moo by Geoff Le Pard
Book review of Buster & Moo by Geoff Le Pard Laden is having an affair while trying to secure a promotion, for nothing in the world does she want her boyfriend Mervin to find out that she’s sleeping with a junior colleague. They don’t talk much and seem to avoid…
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Following a girl in an all-male profession…, a book review of “First Lady of the Keys” by Lucy Brazier
Following a girl in an all-male profession…, a book review of “First Lady of the Keys” by Lucy Brazier” At Old College, the main priorities seem to be food, tea, and alcohol. At least so it seems when PorterGirl starts sharing her adventures as Deputy Head Porter. Her job…
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B is for Book #AtoZChallenge
B is for Book I read the book, quickly, the way I devoured the likes of Harry Potter and other childhood favourites. It was the first time that I read an ebook and that on my phone. I suddenly had a hard time putting down that computer we call phone (I…
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True love, a book review: “Not Today, But Someday” by Lori L. Otto
Emi, who due to the sudden breakup of her parents has moved in the middle of the school year, has stopped believing in love. Her first friend in her new hight school is the rather artistic Nate, who is desperately searching for love, or at least physical satisfaction. As the…
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Life in a French small town ~ a book review and recommendation of “Chronicles from Château de Moines” by Evelyne Holingue
After his mother lost her battle with cancer, Scott, his younger sister, and his “hippy” father move from California to rural France. In the fall of 1970, in the small town of Château de Moines a new life starts for all of them, far away from the ghosts of their…
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Discovering a different side of Paris ~ A book review and recommendation of “Trapped in Paris” by Evelyne Holingue
After a trip to Paris, Cameron, a 16 year old American is on his way back home to Maine. But sometimes natural events make us change plans. Due to the eruption of a Volcano in Island, Charles de Gaulle airport is now longer letting planes take off. After a tiring…
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An ingredient, a hunt, a love for a book – a book recommendation “Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Luscious Substance” by Tim Ecott
An ingredient, a hunt, a love for a book A book recommendation “Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Luscious Substance” by Tim Ecott How hard can it be to find a book? Once again an order for my favourite ingredient, Vanilla, had arrived at our house. This time, I was…
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What is Time? – A Book Review about: “The History of Time – A Very Short Introduction” by Leofranc Holford-Strevens
I liked the idea of Easter happening at two different moments within one country, and Friday being named for female goddesses.
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A book review – “The Tramp – Book one of the Bound Chronicles” by Sarah Wathen
Tourists rarely come to Shirley County, it seems that when they do it’s because they are a bit lost. Shirley County, and not its inhabitants, is hostile towards outsiders. Still Candy Vale cannot imagine leaving, and that with her childhood having been marked by troublesome events. Even though there are many…
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Some ghosts are adorable – a book review and recommendation – “From Cornflakes to Eternity” by S.D. Gates
6 year old Allie sees her lifeless body in a hospital before moving on into the afterworld. But her stay there is only brief, invested with a mission the child ghost is sent back to the paediatric hospital where she has just died. In the book From Cornflakes to Eternity S.D. Gates…
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