Bookcase Antics

I started reading this as a break from Oliver Twist which is very hard going. It was a good break as it was quite light and easy to read.
The books protagonist is Pandora English who is a 19 year old from a small US town who moves to New York City to live with [...]

One Unknown is the story of Australian woman Gill Hicks who was injured in the London bombings on 7 July 2005.
Gill was living in London at the time and was catching the tube to work when a suicide bomber detonated his bomb just meters away from where she was standing.  Gill describes in great detail [...]

I have been meaning to read this book for quite a long time. It is the story of a husband and a wife that decide they will get a Labrador puppy. As we are about to get a Labrador puppy ourselves at home I thought now would be a good time to read it.
This poor [...]

This is my favourite book at the moment.
It was first published in 2005 by Australian Markus Zusak, is an international bestseller and has won many awards.
The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a young German girl who is given up for adoption by her mother. It is set in 1939 in Nazi [...]

I wish I had only read this book out of the series of 4. It was much better than the first 3. The first three focus on vampires and werewolves but more in the way that they relate to humans. Book 4 changes everything…I don’t want to say too much and give anything away but [...]

I am writing about these two books together because they were quite similar.
I can’t say either of them grabbed me at all.
They still kept me turning the page thought which was strange, but I think it was more because I kept expecting something big to happen…..waiting…..waiting…..waiting.
Unlike a lot of the books in my book case [...]

There was so much hype about these books that I couldn’t help but read them. I just had to see what the fuss was all about.
Like most things, I don’t think this book lived up to the hype. I can see why Twilight appeals to teenage girls.
The main character, Edward, oozes so much sex [...]