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Synopsis: "The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black cat and the subsequent deterioration of a man. Mini-review: “Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.” This is one of few Poe works that I have read but I am stunned at …
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Synopsis: My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Nothing happens by accident. After being in a bit of a reading slump for a week or so, this is exactly the kind of book …
Synopsis: In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a …
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This week for Top Ten Tuesday the theme was "read in one sitting". There were several suggestions on what to do for this and I liked this one about really captivating books! If you're anything like me, then you will absolutely get lost in Rosemary's Baby! This took me under 24 hours to read, only having a gap …
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Birdie left her tagging open for this tag post and it looked like a load of fun, so I decided to take the opportunity to do it myself! A book for each initial: I've my first and surname for this one! Z - Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien U - Uzumaki by Junji Ito K - Killing …
I write so much for my blog and I just wanted something easy to post today because I'm feeling ill and gross, so here are some book covers I think are absolutely gorgeous, satisfying or really cool. I haven't read most of these, I just like the artwork. Sorry for the boring post today! I'm …
Credit, as always, goes to the wonderful Lia @ Lost in a Story for this decluttering idea! The aim is to declutter you tbr shelf. To do this: Go to your goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course if you do this weekly, […]
I created a blog tag! There are so many thousands of blog tags out there at the moment, that I wanted to make one myself and although I'm a book blogger, I thought Desert Island Discs would be fun to do! Here's how it works... Link back to my (BookBum's) original post, so I can see …
Thank you so much to Mandy (Book Princess Reviews) for nominating me for this award! I feel like there can't possibly be any more things for use to tag each other in... but I will find them, and I will tag you! The rules: Share the link of the blogger who has shown love to …
Thanks to Read Voraciously for giving me the inspiration to do this blog post! (it was a long time ago now, but it was still inspo lol!) I recently(ish) wrote a post all about the books I have on pre-order so today I thought I'd write a post about all the novels I've been given on Netgalley, …
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