The good, the bad and the bookish

Biased, candid and subjective book reviews of whatever we happen to be reading

Thursday, December 30

The Aloha Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini

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Bonnie Markham has had a grim year - in the throes of an unpleasant divorce from a man she knew not nearly as well as she thought, she's...

Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You - Peter Cameron

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In the summer between graduating from high school and starting college, eighteen-year-old James Sveck decides he doesn't need to continu...
Friday, December 24

The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry

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Stephen Fry is intelligent, urbane, assured and the epitome of an Englishman - unless you ask him. In this second autobiographical installme...
Thursday, December 23

The Quilter's Kitchen - Jennifer Chiaverini

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Perhaps it's because, in the lead-up to a year without library books, I've glutted on the Elm Creek Quilts series, but I have become...

This is Where I Leave You - Jonathan Tropper

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Judd Foxman learned of his father’s death from his sister Wendy, who delivered the news casually; it was almost appropriate, given Mort’s re...
Tuesday, December 21

The Winding Ways Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini

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As the composition of the Elm Creek Quilters changes, founder Sylvia searches for a way to represent, honour and welcome the departing and a...

Under Orders - Dick Francis

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It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the pe...
Monday, December 20

Room - Emma Donoghue

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Today I’m five. I was four last night, going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I’m changed to five, abracadabra. B...
Sunday, December 19

Dark Tiger - William G Tapply

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Stoney Calhoun has been content to live his life since waking up in a VA hospital seven years earlier. He has amnesia about his life until t...
Saturday, December 18

The New Year's Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini

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In keeping with the first holiday-themed novel, and really with the series as a whole, The New Year's Quilt uses events from the past t...

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

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Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the first ever duo to survive the Hunger Games, have returned home. As promised, their District now has ...
Friday, December 17

The Woodcutter - Reginald Hill

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Once upon a time I was living happily ever after. That’s right. Like in a fairytale. How else to describe my life up till that bright autumn...
Thursday, December 16

Change of Heart – Jodie Picoult

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When her husband died in a car crash, June thought she’d never be happy again, let alone find love. But the policeman who rescued her from t...
Wednesday, December 15

The Quilter's Homecoming - Jennifer Chiaverini

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Elizabeth Nelson left Pennsylvania with no little sadness - with one exceptiong she was leaving everyone she knew and loved behind her, from...
Tuesday, December 14

Show No Fear - Marliss Melton

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Ten months after an intelligence mission in the Middle East went bad, CIA operative Lucy Donovan is delighted to be assigned to rescue hosta...
Monday, December 13

A Quilter's Holiday - Jennifer Chiaverini

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Elm Creek Quilts has new faces, and as Thanksgiving approaches the final touches to the Manor are being made, in anticipation of the unoffic...

Circle of Quilters - Jennifer Chiaverini

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As two of the Elm Creek Quilters leave for new journeys, a significant gap has opened in the groups’ teaching roster. The Quilters agree tha...
Sunday, December 12

Cryoburn – Lois McMaster Bujold

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Kibou-daini is a planet ruled by one preoccupation – to stave off death. Its’ citizens are placed in cryostasis as soon as possible, to impr...
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