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03 Feb

Weekend Book Buzz – 2/3 February 2019

Welcome to the Weekend Book Buzz. And February! I hope those of you experiencing the polar vortex have managed to stay warm and safe. It's a bit surreal to try and imagine what those kinds of temperatures are like...
01 Feb

First Line Friday – Between Two Shores (Jocelyn Green)

Welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books! My selection this week is a must-read for historical-fiction lovers, especially if you’ve enjoyed books by Lori Benton or April Gardiner. Jocelyn Green’s Between Two Shores is set in Quebec in the mid-1700s during the Seven

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01 Feb

The Line Between (Tosca Lee) – Review

When Wynter Roth finally escapes from New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation.
30 Jan

Debut Author Spotlight (+ Giveaway!): Abigail Wilson

Welcome, book lovers! 2019 is already shaping up to be a fabulous year for readers, but one of the things that has me really excited is debut authors. In particular, there are TWO Australian authors whose debut novels will release...
29 Jan

Top Ten Tuesday – Most Recent Additions to My TBR

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! This week's topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is Most Recent Additions to My TBR. I've actually had a bit of difficulty working out exactly which books to include in this list...
28 Jan

The Curse of Misty Wayfair (Jaime Jo Wright) – Review

Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, in 1908. When clues lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a post-mortem photographer to gain access...
27 Jan

Weekend Book Buzz – 26/27 January 2019

Welcome to the Weekend Book Buzz! We're enduring a pretty intense heat wave down here in Australia at the moment, with temps in the high 30s and low 40s all over the country...
26 Jan

My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge (Pepper Basham) – Review

Having failed his British father again, Jonathan Taylor joins his uncle’s missionary endeavors as a teacher in a two-room schoolhouse. Laurel feels compelled to protect the tenderhearted teacher from the harsh realities of Appalachian life, even while his stories of life outside the mountains

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