Bookcase Antics

Ok…so this isn’t a book review but I wanted to share this awesome website my hubby found…
http://bookshelfporn.com/
Awesome pics of hundreds of book shelves. Some of them are amazing. So jealous!!!
I also found Forgotten Bookmarks which I thought was pretty cool too.
http://www.forgottenbookmarks.com

This is one book that I just could not finish.
I read about half of it but could just not do it. It goes on, and on, and on and for hundreds of pages nothing of interest happens at all.
I thought it was 766 pages of boringness, well actually I wouldn’t know as I [...]

Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010 and rightly so.
Room is the story of 5 year old Jack and his Ma. Jack and his Ma live in Room. Room is actually a shed that Jack’s Ma has been imprisoned in since before his birth. Room is the only world [...]

I love this book!
I have been reading and re-reading this book for years. It is one of my favorites. There is something magical about the story.
I am not normally into reading anything that is based on fantasy but something about this book captures my imagination.
Wild Magic is about a girl named Daine who [...]

The President’s Wife is about a young woman who falls in love with the President of the United States. She ends up marrying the president, but life is not as she expected it.
Parts of the story are interesting but I found it quite slow and I kept waiting for something to happen.
Overall [...]

My first instinct was to say don’t bother, but that is probably a little harsh. Single white e-mail is a light read, something for by the pool on holidays. It is a bit predictable and definitely not a book to sink your teeth into.
It is the story of Victoria, who finds [...]

The Roald Dahl that I think of is the one who wrote the stories I read growing up, Witches, Matilda, The BFG, George’s Marvellous Medicine, to name a few. Warning! This is not one of these books!
The story is about the narrator’s Uncle Oswald who is somewhat of an entrepreneur always searching for a [...]

This is the fourth book in the Tomorrow Series.
The group are safe in New Zealand for a few months when they are approached by Colonel Finley and asked to go back to Australia to lead a group of NZ soldiers. At first Ellie does not want to go back, but in the [...]

I love this book. Bryce Courtenay is a fantastic writer.
Jessica is set in the early 1900’s. The book is based on the life of a teenage tomboy, living with her family in the country. Jessica lives with her mother, father and sister, Meg. She is a tomboy who spends all her days helping [...]