Book Review | Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
September 28, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 5 stars, 50 book challenge, Summer Reading, Summer Reading Thing, The Pub (2008)
Second Glance is about ghosts, lost loves and unanswered questions, and people who will do anything for the ones they love.
[ Read this article → ]Book Review | Jemima J. by Jane Green
August 27, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 5 stars, 50 book challenge, Chick Lit Challenge, Summer Reading, Summer Reading Thing
Written by any other author this book may have been trite, and corny – but Green has a knack of letting the reader know that while everything may seem rosy there is something more ’sinister’ afoot – and when the twist came near the end, I certainly hadn’t seen it coming!
[ Read this article → ]Book Review | Anne of Windy Willows by L.M. Montgomery
August 16, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 3 stars, 50 book challenge, Series Challenge 2, Summer Reading, Summer Reading Thing, Young Adult
I think that as a stand-alone ‘chronicles’ this book should be appreciated – but for a reader who yearns for tales of Anne and her loved ones it left me wanting.
[ Read this article → ]Breaking Dawn
August 12, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 5 stars, 50 book challenge, Chunkster, Reviews, Summer Reading, Summer Reading Thing, The Pub (2008), Twilight Saga, Twilight series, Young Adult
Breaking Dawn starts out with the fabulous wedding between Bella and Edward – and then takes the reader on a roller coaster ride, full of twists and turns, with a bit of blood and gore and romance thrown in for good measure.
[ Read this article → ]Book Review | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
August 9, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 4 stars, 50 book challenge, Reviews, Summer Reading, Summer Reading Thing
Sebold has a beautiful way with words – she covers the subject of a child’s disappearance and the effects it has on those closest to her with compassion and insight.
[ Read this article → ]Book Review – Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
July 31, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 4 stars, 50 book challenge, Book Blowout, Classics Challenge, Reviews, Summer Reading, Summer Reading Thing
A heartbreaking tale of two ranch hands, George and Lennie, who have a pipe dream to own their own ranch one day, where they can make their own decisions and live safely on their own.
[ Read this article → ]Book Review | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
July 31, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 3 stars, 50 book challenge, Book Blowout, Reviews, Summer Reading, Summer Reading Thing, Young Adult
The book is well written and gives an insight into how people with this Syndrome think and react to the wider world.
[ Read this article → ]Book Review | Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
July 28, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 5 stars, 50 book challenge, Book Blowout, Challenges, Reviews, Summer Reading, Summer Reading Thing
In a tale woven with fairy tales of people who can grow wings and fly away, Hoffman reveals how each character feels trapped by the hand that fate has dealt them; from a fated marriage, to a forbidden love affair, a long kept secret to drug-fuelled self-destruction.
[ Read this article → ]Book Review | Animal Farm by George Orwell
July 26, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 4 stars, 50 book challenge, Book Blowout, Classics Challenge, Reviews, Summer Reading, Summer Reading Thing, Well-rounded challenge
Animal Farm is an excellent allegory; using farmyard animals who overthrow their humans in search of utopia to show that such a state of equality is impossible to achieve – because of the corruptive influence of the very power required to necessitate it.
[ Read this article → ]Book Review | The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
July 26, 2008 by Clare Swindlehurst
Filed under 5 stars, 50 book challenge, Book Blowout, Challenges, Grapevine, Reviews, Summer Reading, Summer Reading Thing, The Pub (2008)
In her powerful debut novel, Kyle takes a frank look at families and relationships, secrets and the unspoken as Alice is forced to really see and understand the events that have shaped her family and how one simple act can have devastating effects and change their world forever.
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