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Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Friday, August 5, 2011
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2011

Eyes Wide Open by Andrew Gross

Eyes Wide Open

Publisher: Harperluxe
Published on: July 12, 2011
ISBN: 0062064959
Number of pages: 512
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“Sherry Ann Frazier knew she’d seen him somewhere before.

The gaunt, sharply cut edge of his jaw. The narrow, dimly lit eyes, staring back at her. The probing intensity of his crooked smile.

Maybe on a trip somewhere, or at an airport. You know how you pass by someone you might never see again and yet their face is permanently implanted in your mind. Or maybe she’d seen him at her shop. people were always coming in… She’d seen him before – that mush she knew. Definitely.

She just couldn’t remember where.”

–excerpt from the prologue–

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Monday, July 25, 2011
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2011

The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

The Girl with Glass Feet

Publisher: Picador
Published on: January 4, 2011
ISBN: 0312680457
Number of pages: 304
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“A herd of moth-winged cattle on the ground could stand still for hours with all the docility of common cattle in a field, but in the air they delighted in the power of flight, and there was something kaleidoscopic about their movement. You started to see patterns, and before long you’d be hypnotised, your thoughts fluttering in the air around you. You thought how you’d been sitting like this admiring the cattle since you were young (perhaps you had been doing it for too long now).”

–excerpt from The Girl with Glass Feet–

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Sunday, July 24, 2011
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2011

I’m Feeling Lucky by Douglas Edwards

I'm Feeling Lucky

Publisher: Penguin Books
Published on: July 28, 2011
ISBN: 9781846145124
Number of pages: 432
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I have to admit that I’m a bit of a closet Google fan, so when I got advance notice that Douglas Edwards was publishing a “behind the scenes” look at this infamous company I dropped Penguin a line and asked for a copy of the book.

At 432 pages it’s not a brief read by any means, but I enjoyed every minute of it!

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Sunday, July 24, 2011
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Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon: Naval gazing – or re-evaluating my book blogging

You will have to forgive me today dear reader because I feel a little “naval gazing” coming on during this week’s Sunday Salon. In recent weeks I’ve been thinking more about my book blogging activities than actually blogging about books.

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Sunday, July 3, 2011
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Sunday Salon

Why I’m Proud to be a Book Blogger [TSS]

Well my fellow Sunday Saloners, it would appear that I have been living under a rock these past few weeks because I completely missed the ridiculously insulting article penned by Ms Hurezanu in which she made the sweeping statement that “Book blogging has become a subculture whose members are mostly women between 20 and 50 years old, often known as “mommy bloggers” because they are housewives who blog about romance novels, horror/vampire stories and paranormal novels.”

Excuse me?

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Sunday, June 26, 2011
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The Still Point by Amy Sackville

The Still Point

Publisher: Portobello Books
Published on: December 2010
ISBN: 1846272300
Number of pages: 320
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I was over having dinner with friends a few weeks back when Melanie mentioned this amazing book she had read for her Book Club. I hadn’t heard of The Still Point by Amy Sackville at that point but she brought the book out for me to take a look and on reading the first page I was hooked and begged to borrow it.

Every now and then you come across a book that just captures you on some level that really does take you away from reality. Well Amy did just that. Every time I picked up The Still Point I was whisked away to some other world. To the icy dangers of the North Pole, trekking alongside Arctic Explorer Edward Mackley, or to the dusty attic of a London house watching over the shoulder of young Julia Mackley as she tries to piece together the momentoes and memories of Edward’s doomed expedition.

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Monday, June 20, 2011
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2011

The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf

The Weight of Silence

Publisher: Mira
Published on: July 28, 2009
ISBN: 077832740X
Number of pages: 384
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“Louis lowers himself toward you, and I am fastened to the look on your face. i see your lips begin to arrange themselves and I know, I know. I see the word form, the syllables hardening and sliding from your mouth with no effort. Your voice, not unsure or hoarse from lack of use but clear and bold. One word, the first in three years.”

–extract from the prologue–

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Sunday, June 19, 2011
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Sunday Salon

Has technology changed the way you read? [TSS] [Weekly Geeks]

It’s been a while since I blogged around here, so I thought I’d make a special effort to join this week’s Sunday Salon. I’ve been visiting other participants in recent weeks and decided that it’s high time I actually participated properly! Of course at 7am on a Sunday morning it’s sometimes difficult to come up with inspiration… until this week’s Weekly Geeks topic caught my eye: “Tech & Reading – Same as or a change in output?”