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River Cottage Gluten Free Cookbook

Naomi Devlin

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Gluten is found in an extraordinary number of foods, yet it can be problematic for so many of us....

Abandoned Mansions of Ireland: 2016

Tarquin Blake

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From the mid-eighteenth century Irish country houses flourished. But factors such as the Great...

Chloe (778 KP) rated All the Light We Cannot See in Books

Apr 3, 2021 (Updated Apr 3, 2021)

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

8.4

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Fantastic characters (1 more)

Beautifully written

Long (1 more)

Slow in the middle

Unnecessarily long

So this is not my usual genre, but all the rave reviews plus a few recommendations from friends led me to read it.

The writing is so immersive, Marie- Laure's blindness allows for Anthony Doerr to really up the descriptive language and this truely helped bring the streets of Paris and Saint Malo to life for me. I love her relationship with her friends and family too.

I did not take as much of a liking to Warner, I'm not sure if this is due to the writing style changing slightly during his storyline.

The flicking between time frames is quite frustrating and I personally feel unnecessary. I found the middle third very long and slow. Plus the last third was underwhelming because it became obvious how they would meet 150 pages before they do.

I disliked that there meeting was so fleeting but I lived the simple circularity of the whole story.

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Shirley Manson recommended Dirk Wears White Sox by Adam & The Ants in Music (curated)

Dirk Wears White Sox by Adam & The Ants

1979 | Rock

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"Every single song on here is incredible and all their imagery really captured my imagination. I just loved that everything was black: they were in black leathers, the album cover was black and it was just so stylistically arresting for me.    I just loved how it sounded really smart too. He sounded to me both dangerous and educated, a [combination] I found really intriguing. I didn't always understand what the lyrics were about, but I got the sort of gist. I was a young teenage girl in Scotland and I'd grown up in a very conventional family and this just felt dangerous and exciting to me. It was the sort of life that I wanted to pursue – whatever is on that record, the sound of that record, that's what I wanted to pursue in my life. I wanted smart boys [laughs] dressed in black leather sounding dangerous. That's what I wanted, and that's what I went after [laughs]. "

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BookInspector (124 KP) rated Dead over Heels in Books

Sep 24, 2020

Dead over Heels

Theresa Braun | 2020 | Horror, Paranormal

9.0

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I found this story quite refreshing after reading a deep and complex novel, and it was what I needed at this time. This is “don’t judge a book by its cover” kind of situation because the cover does not look very appealing, but it does carry an interesting story. I really liked Veronica and Sebastian in this story, they were very realistic and just generally sweet people. I really enjoyed the narrative as well. I liked that the author discussed family issues and grasped a very nice angle to utilise it for this story. I really enjoyed the little surprises which the author had to offer as well. The writing style was pleasant and easy to read, and the ending was very unexpected but completed this story very nicely.

So, to conclude, if you like ghost stories with a hint of romance, do give this story a go, and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did