Thank You for This Moment: A Story of Love, Power and Betrayal
Valerie Trierweiler and Clemence Sebag
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The breakdown of Valerie Trierweiler's relationship with French President Francois Hollande was...
Don't Stop Me Now: 26.2 Tales of a Runner's Obsession
Chris Evans and Vassos Alexander
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This is a celebration of running, and what lots of us think about when we run. Part escape, part...
History Is All You Left Me
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When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe...
A People's History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Letters and Journals
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Enjoy a front row seat to the momentous events of the last century. In Travis Elborough's expertly...
Brian Fallon recommended Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen in Music (curated)
Terre a Terre: The Vegetarian Cookbook
Amanda Powley and Philip M. Taylor
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This is the book that vegetarians have been waiting and pleading for since Terre a Terre first...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated A Shade of Blood (A Shade of Vampire #2) in Books
Aug 25, 2020
Took me a bit longer to get into the second one as the first didn’t jump in to my memories as fast as the other books I read do! The first book was a bit underwhelming and a bit rushed. This one was so much better I love that Derek still has his dark side not like most vampires written. I had a feeling I knew who Sofia’s dad was but I didn’t see it coming about her mum! Certainly sets it up for an interesting 3rd book.
Uncarved (Drakon II)
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“How do the Uncarved die? They bleed to death. Always.” Fourteen-winter-old Da-Ren joins the...
Gary Born is a master at creating a vibrant and descriptive story. He has a way of transporting you through time that gets you lost, in a good way!
Sara West is our heroine, I love her. She is equal parts intelligent, brave and capable.
Sara is the first person we meet and it's apparent straight away that she is a strong independent woman.
I'm not going to head into too much detail as you seriously need to climb aboard for this cracking story and discover the twists for yourself.
I'd recommend savouring The File snuggled up on the sofa with snacks (you know this is my favourite thing by now). It would also be a great choice for a book club or just a casual thing with friends!
David McK (3414 KP) rated Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3) in Books
Jul 1, 2024
Only he could take The Grim Reaper, and turn him into not-so-much a figure of fun, but use him to examine life and mortality and the nature of human existence.
I think there's five such books in which he takes a starring role in the entire Discworld series - those would be (in order) 'Mort', 'Reaper Man', this one, 'Hogfather' and 'Thief of Time'], with all but the first featuring the Death of Rats ("SQUEEK"), and with the latter three also featuring his grand-daughter Susan.
That, thus, makes this the first novel to do so, with plenty of puns and jokes around the music industry here as a new force comes into being on the Discworld: that of "Music with Rocks In".
For my money, this is top-tier Pratchett.