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Hi everyone and welcome back! Ready for day 4? Today's featured book is... The Fairy Tellers by Nicholas Jubber Mixing it up a little today with a non-fiction book recommendation. If you enjoy fairy tales as much as I do, then this book will be a treat! I loved discovering more about how the tales… Continue reading Advent Calendar 2024: Day 4
I received an e-arc of this book as part of the blog tour organised by Random Things Tours. This did not affect my opinion of the book in any way.Publisher: Troubador PublishingPublished: November 2024Pages: 320 Synopsis Hated as a foreigner, despised as a woman, I became First Lady of Athens. Aspasia falls passionately in love… Continue reading BLOG TOUR Review: The Immigrant Queen by Peter Taylor-Gooby
Hi all and welcome back! Ready to discover the book hiding behind day 3? Today's featured book is... Clytemnestra's Bind by Susan C Wilson This is a much more recent read than those I shared in the past two days but, especially as I was reading another book set in Ancient Greece at the time… Continue reading Advent Calendar 2024: Day 3
Hello and welcome back! Ready to open the next door? Today's featured book is... When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore Acceptance, self-discovery, love and friendship, hardship, trauma, discriminations and so much more find space in this book, always subtly and with great sensitivity. This sweet novel was one of my favourite reads of… Continue reading Advent Calendar 2024: Day 2
Hello and welcome back! Today is December 1st, so that means it's time to open the first door in our advent calendar. Today's featured book is.... Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah I first reviewed this book all the way back in 2015! I was particularly touched by the author's prose and the way he… Continue reading Advent Calendar 2024: Day 1
November is over and I can almost hear the sleigh bells ringing! This year I want to try something new to get fully into the Christmas spirit and bring to a close the year of my blog’s 10th anniversary. So, allow me to present to you… (drum rolls, please) Book for Thought’s first ever Advent… Continue reading A Little Festive News…
I received a review copy of this book for free from the publisher via as part of the blog tour organised by TheWriteReads. This did not affect my opinion of the book in any way.Series: Ghosts of Ethuran #1Publisher: GollanczPublished: May 2024Pages: 448 Synopsis Meet Kavithri. Outcast. Underdog. Survivor.Kavi is a Taemu. Her people, once feared berserkers and… Continue reading BLOG TOUR Review: Kavithri by Aman J. Bedi
Let's all pretend for a moment that it isn't mid-November already, and that I actually posted this wrap-up post when I meant to at the beginning of the month... The past couple of weeks have been a true whirlwind and I only just managed to catch my breath and look back on the October. Before… Continue reading October 2024 Wrap-Up
Series: The Hunger Games #0Publisher: Scholastic PressPublished: May 2020Pages: 541 Synopsis It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capital, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on… Continue reading Review: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
I received an advanced review copy of this book for free from the publisher via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Program. This did not affect my opinion of the book in any way.Series: The Skeleton Crew #1Publisher: Hot Tree PublishingPublished: August 2024Pages: 138 Synopsis Welcome to the Skeleton Crew. Bring your knitting needles and a good,… Continue reading Review: A Curse for Samhain by Dahlia Donovan