Category Archives: Books After You by Julie Buxbaum My rating: 4 of 5 stars Ellie drops everything & jumps on a plane after receiving the devastating news that her best friend has been murdered. She travels across the Atlantic to London to be with her God daughter Sophie. A little girl who witnessed the ‘accident’ with her mother...  If I Stay by Gayle Forman My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book didn’t start off well for me. I didn’t like all the cute American family having breakfast scenario. However, it pays to stick with it. Mia is in her late teens, she has a decision to make about which route her life...  Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars Here is a great example of why going to a reading group is worth while. It means that you read books that never in a million years would you have picked up from the cover alone. Set in 1953 during the end of...  Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson My rating: 3 of 5 stars An interesting premise for a novel. A middle-age copper having a mid life crisis finds himself guarding the body of a notorious child killer. His twelve hour night-shift gives him too much time on his hands and he finds himself examining his...  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was quite shocked regarding some of the adult themes in the book, which I obviously didn’t get at GCSE age, when read the first time. It is a brilliantly constructed novel, and you can immediately appreciate why it is used as... |
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