Pastime Pleasures #7 – The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella

Posted May 16, 2014 by Charlotte in Pastime Pleasures / 1 Comment
Pastime Pleasures #7 – The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella

Welcome to my  feature, Pastime Pleasures, posted every other Friday. Today is the turn of The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella. Here I will look at books that have given me great pleasure in the past. These are books I can read over and over again. The only rule is that the book must have been published five or more years ago. The Undomestic Goddess was the first Sophie Kinsella book I ever read, and from the beginning it had me in stitches. I can tell you that, as someone who is currently studying law, it makes complete sense that someone will lose the plot and end up as a cleaner. Although I hope that I would be more up for the job than Samantha… But looking at the state of my room I guess not. There are genuine laugh out loud moments (yes I refuse to put LOL)  Especially when Samantha attempts to navigate her way round the kitchen and through her job while maintaining her professionalism. Have you heard of the Nimbus 2000 iron?!? Has Samantha landed on her feet? […]

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Review: Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

Posted May 14, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 Comments
Review: Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris Series: Midnight Texas #1 Published by Gollancz on May 6, 2014 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Pages: 305 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawnshop (where someone lives in the basement and runs the store during the night). There’s a diner (although those folk who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident: Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). If you stop at the one traffic light in town, then everything looks normal. But if you stay a while, you might learn the truth… So after last week’s mini review, the publisher sent […]

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Review: Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub

Posted May 10, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Diary of the Fall by Michel Laub Published by Random House on April 3, 2014 Genres: Fiction Pages: 192 Format: E-Book Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads ‘I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty people and no one making a sound, as if everyone were waiting for my classmate to cry out … but he lay on the ground with his eyes closed’ A schoolboy prank goes horribly wrong, and a thirteen-year-old boy is left injured. Years later, one of the classmates relives the episode as he tries to come to terms with his demons. Diary of the Fall is the story of three generations: a man examining the mistakes of his past, and his struggle for forgiveness; a father with Alzheimer’s, for whom recording every memory has become an obsession; and a grandfather who survived Auschwitz, […]

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Mini Review: Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

Posted May 8, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment
Mini Review: Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris Series: Midnight Texas #1 Published by Gollancz on May 6, 2014 Genres: Fiction, Film Genres, Mystery, Paranormal Pages: 305 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawnshop (where someone lives in the basement and runs the store during the night). There’s a diner (although those folk who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident: Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). If you stop at the one traffic light in town, then everything looks normal. But if you stay a while, you might learn the truth… • EDIT Full review of Midnight Crossroad now LIVE!! […]

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Review: The Last Boat Home by Dea Brovig

Posted May 7, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Last Boat Home by Dea Brovig

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Last Boat Home by Dea Brovig Published by Hutchinson on March 13, 2014 Genres: Fiction Pages: 272 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Explosive, dark and tender, The Last Boat Home is a devastating novel about sacrifice, survival and a mother’s love. If you loved The Light Between Oceans or The Snow Child, this is for you. On the wind-swept southern coast of Norway, sixteen-year-old Else is out on the icy sea, dragging her oars through the waves while, above her, storm clouds are gathering. Surrounded by mountains, snow and white-capped water, she looks across the fjord and dreams of another life, of escape and faraway lands. Back on shore, her father sits alone in his boathouse with a jar of homebrew. In the Best Room, her mother covers her bruises and seeks solace in prayer. Each tries to hide the truth from this isolated, God-fearing community they call […]

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