Category: Books
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Book Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Rating: 5/5 I rarely rate new books a 5/5, but this one more than fit the bill. All of the things that challenged me about Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence and Gone Girl made me love We Were Liars. I loved the unreliable narrator, the sudden twist close to…
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Book Review: The Yard by Alex Grecian
After recommending Dust and Shadow and The Gods of Gotham, you probably thought I had run out of police procedurals set in the Victorian era. But of course where there’s a will, there’s a way and I’ve found a new series to love. The Yard by Alex Grecian is set a few months after…
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Recommending Books: With Great Power
With great power comes great responsibility…or so they say. I have become the official book recommender for my friends and I have to admit that the thought terrifies me. It isn’t that I don’t know which books I love or which books would appeal to others, it’s that there’s a lot of judgement that…
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Giveaway: Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land
It’s giveaway central this month at The Library of Alexandra. Today I want to tell you about Lev Grossman’s new book The Magician’s Land. It’s the third book in the Magician’s trilogy which I’ve reviewed here and here. The trilogy has been compared to Harry Potter, Catcher in the Rye, and Chronicles of Narnia.…
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