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Sarah Redden (569 KP) rated Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp in Books

Oct 17, 2019 (Updated Oct 17, 2019)

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Hard to get into

I started this book a few weeks ago and I really couldn't get into it. I kept putting it down and struggled to be excited to pick it up again and get stuck into it. I found it very vague and patchy in the first half of the book because the paragraphs are short in places and don't seem to follow any kind of story, I know that's because it's in diary form. The second half of the book seemed to pick up momentum and I would of preferred the book to have been written as a story instead of diary form. Despite not enjoying it that much I felt I owed it to the author to finish it because of the awful things she experienced.

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Smiling Men with Bad Reputations: The Story of the Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron and a Consumer's Guide to Their Music

Paul Norbury

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The Incredible String Band lit up the late 1960s music scene with their groundbreaking LPs The 5000...

A Guide to Berlin

Gail Jones

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 STELLA PRIZE. We travel to find ourselves; to run away from ourselves. 'A...

Cockfosters

Helen Simpson

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Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the...

Don't Try This at Home

Angela Readman

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A girl repeatedly chops her boyfriend in half but, while her 'other half' multiplies, she is still...

Haatchi and Little B

Wendy Holden

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Haatchi and Little B tells the inspiring and moving true story of Owen Howkins (also known as Little...

Merissa (14046 KP) rated The Hookup in Books

Oct 12, 2020

The Hookup

Kindle Alexander | 2020 | Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance

8.0

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The Hookup is a short story with Grant and Easton. Grant needs some time to play as he has his concerns and worries dragging him down. Easton sees a gorgeous man in navy whites and immediately wants to know him better.

This was a quick read that still manages to give you a great story. I loved the twist halfway through which gave a whole new depth to the read. The attraction between these two is off the charts so be prepared for a steamy read.

If you need some quick loving then I can definitely recommend this book.

* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *

Merissa
Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!

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David McK (3816 KP) rated Dragons of Spring Dawning: Chronicles, Volume Three (Dragonlance Chronicles Book 3) in Books

Oct 16, 2020

Third entry in the Weis/Hickman Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy, which sets the world of Krynn up for new adventures with a new Status Quo, and which finishes the story first began in Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

However, I found this to be lacking the intimacy of that first novel, or even the tragic pathos of Sturm from the second Dragons of Winter Night; too concerned with Tanis's internal struggles and skipping over a large part of just what happened to Raistlin and how he suddenly becomes so powerful (told in other spin-offs, perhaps?).

Also, and as with Dragons of Winter Night, not all characters survive the story, with one character in particular provided with a fitting farewell.

In short, and as a whole: these books are OK, but nothing remarkable.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Private Life of Elder Things in Books

Aug 18, 2019 (Updated Aug 18, 2019)

Short story collection consisting of various riffs on elements from HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos; you probably have to be fairly familiar with Lovecraft and his acolytes to get the full effect, as this does almost turn into a game of Spot-the-Yithian in places. All the usual suspects appear, along with excursions into more obscure areas (there's some excellent Hastur-related wordplay in the story featuring that part of the mythos).

Of the three authors, Tchaikovsky is probably the best stylist, McDonald manages to find some humanity and depth in fairly unlikely places, while Gauntlett is the pulpiest. None of them attempt to actually copy Lovecraft's idiosyncratic prose style, which is probably a blessing. None of the stories are genuinely inspired, but they're usually very readable even if they sometimes get a touch bizarre.