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A week or so ago I posted a blog all about my experience at 66 Book Club (remember… the warehouse full of books all 70% off?!) Today I wanted to show you all the books I purchased… cos I got 14! The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton I’d seen this one all over the blogosphere and …
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they …
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⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil' Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange …
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I decided to have a perusal at the "Popular Classics Books" list on Goodreads and was amazed to find how many books I had marked as "to-read". I always say that I'm not a classics girl, but I have only read a few, so I can't really make an assumption like that just yet. Going …
