“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami
Tag: reading
What can I say?
The gang initiation involves multiple book reviews and a bookish tattoo 😂
Review: The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis 🎧
I love a good book about books 🥰 Add some magic and I am in! There is some romance and I am generally not a big romance reader but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The romance wasn’t the main story which suits me perfectly.
A book restorer comes into possession of 2 old but very unusual books, with no authors, no publishers, no information at all. Her investigation into the 2 books unearths a mystery that she can’t resist.
The book moves across two periods in time, and the story is told from the perspectives of the 3 main characters and the differing versions of events add to the intriguing story.
I listened to the audiobook and the narrator for Hemi was how I imagined Henry Cavill would sound as a narrator 🥰 A girl can dream right?
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“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
Walt Disney ( American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer.)
Books are better than medicine
It’s science 🤷♀️
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“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King (American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels)
Currently reading (11 May 2024)
All of us – our car book
🎧 Mission Unstoppable ( The Genius Files series) by Dan Gutman
Tazz
🎧 The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
📚 Bridge by Lauren Beukes 🇿🇦
📱The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
MrB (14yo)
📚 One of us is back (The Bayview series) by Karen M McManus
🎧 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson series) by Rick Riordan (for the 100th time 😂)
LittleD (11yo)
📚 Target (The Bodyguard series) by Chris Bradford
🎧 The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus series) by Rick Riordan (for the 5th time at least 😂)
Review: Fairy Tale by Stephen King 🎧
Thoroughly enjoyed this! I haven’t read a Stephen King in years, but this was the selected book for a virtual book club I joined on the Fable App.
I opted for the audiobook, and I am so glad I did. The narrator was superb. The story was not your standard Stephen King horror but a beautifully told dark fairy tale.
The first half took the shape of an ordinary story about a boy living in a small town, building the characters and developing the relationships. The second half is really where it takes a turn into the dark fantasy realm.
King creates an amazing world through his writing and the characters are superb, made better by the excellent narrator. Also, one of the main characters is a dog so it can only be a wonderful story.
Definitely recommended! One of my favourite books over the past few years 🥰
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin (American novelist and short-story writer, screenwriter, and television producer)
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