Hi all! Hope everyone is safe, well and keeping as happy as they can in these difficult and uncertain times. Like everyone, I’m trying to find ways to fill my days doing things I enjoy whilst being cooped up at home, and so I’ve turned to my love of books to keep me going whilst […]
You might remember that Brigid Kemmerer’s A Curse So Dark And Lonely was my first read of the new year, and it had my heart for a whole host of reasons. At the time I’d written up some thoughts, I had not long started its sequel, A Heart So Fierce and Broken. Now that’s been […]
Huzzah for my first read of 2020: A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer! A massive thankyou to my dear friend Olivia aka Stagey Bookish for recommending this one, boy what a ride… The Kingdom of Emberfall is under threat, Prince Rhen is cursed to relive the autumn of his eighteenth year. Love […]
My final read of last year was one that had been floating around my “to be read” pile for a very long while. Mansfield Park is one of the two of Jane Austen’s novels I haven’t actually read – the other being Persuasion. Over the Christmas holidays then, when I finally had more time to relax and concentrate […]
Ever pick up a book that draws you in, only to find you’ve actually read it before? Such was the case for me here as I revisited the fourth novel from Natasha Solomons: The Song Collector. In 1946, Hartgrove Hall has seen better days. Brothers Jack, George and Harry Fox Talbot (known as “Fox”) must […]
You might remember that many months ago, I wanted to introduce my love of reading and books into proceedings here at Wheelie Stagey. I started with the “30 Day Reading Challenge” – a list of books that included categories like: “A Book I’ve Read More Than Three Times”, “Favourite Book from My Favourite Series”, “A […]
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