When I first read the Cormoran Strike series back in 2017, I really started liking JK Rowlings’s detective narrative. Lethal White is the fourth book in the series, after The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career Of Evil, which the author writes under the pseudonym, Robert Galbraith. The novel starts with the wedding of Strike’s…
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“I look up at the sky and often wonder….” International Space Day – Reading List
Space Day gives you the opportunity participate in the excitement and fascination of space. It’s a topic of interest to millions, old and young alike. Every year space day is celebrated on the first Friday of may and so this year its the 3rd of May. Former astronaut and Senator John Glenn expanded Space Day to International…
Book Review 17 – Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
It’s 1969, and Frances Jellico, a woman in her late thirties, has just moved into the attic of the famous English countryside mansion at Lyntons. Frances has been hired by an American who just bought the estate to evaluate and research the architecture and its surrounding gardens. But Frances is not alone. Cara and Peter,…
Book Review 16 – A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
At the end of any book, I am usually happy or sad, or crying or being excited about my next read. But this book, this story, this man who I met on these pages made me contemplate for a long, long time, contemplate on love, on grief, on death, and on life in general. When…
To read is to travel someplace else – a book is it’s most beautiful medium! – World Book Day Reading List.
World Book Day is also known as World Book and Copyright Day, or International Day of the Book. It is an annual event, organised by UNESCO to promote reading and publishing. Reading is a very important part of my life and books are a feeling of joy that nothing else brings. Every year there are…
Book Review 13 – Jar Of Hearts by Jennifer Hiller
Jar Of Hearts by Jennifer Hiller is a psychological thriller spread across a night in high school, fast forwarded to fourteen years later. Three best friends, inseparable throughout high school, until a special someone, comes along. Popular Angela Wong disappears one night after a party. Nobody knows where she is apart from her best friend…
Poetry – An Emotion, Shared. (List of poetry books)
“Poetry is when an emotion has found it’s thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost It’s World Poetry Day today, and I am celebrating hundreds and thousands of poets from different eras and different walks of life, coming together in this special curated list of poetry books to soothe your soul. When…
Book Review 11 – Sleeping Arrangements by Madeleine Wickham (Sophie Kinsella)
“For all the planning in the world, one could not govern one’s own fate.” Sleeping Arrangements is a novel by Sophie Kinsella writing as Madeleine Wickham. The plot is set in and around a holiday trip to Spain. The story surrounds the lives of two families who have never known of each other and are…
WOMEN’S DAY READING LIST
“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” – Kavita Ramdas This women’s day lets celebrate the brave, the strong, the bold, the everyday women. Here’s a…
Book Review 10 – Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
As a kid, I was only interested in reading two genres of the reading world — romance and crime fiction. Two extremely different surrounding emotions but just in books can they be magically spun together. Well, this book definitely isn’t about love at all but about a crime, a crime that has taken place on…
BREATHING PAGES 