Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll On a drowsy afternoon by a riverbank, a young and distracted Alice follows a rabbit into a fantastical underground world that grows curiouser and curiouser. Dared, insulted, amused, and threatened by a succession of anthropomorphic creatures, the indomitable Alice falls deeper into a swirl of the imagination…
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Book Review | Dog Days | Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4 | Jeff Kinney
Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4) by Jeff Kinney It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn. Greg, a self-confessed “indoor person,” is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and…
Book Review | I Owe You One | Sophie Kinsella
I Owe You One The irresistible standalone from Sophie Kinsella is a story of love, empowerment and an IOU that changes everything . . . Fixie Farr can’t help herself. Straightening a crooked object, removing a barely-there stain, helping out a friend . . . she just has to put things right. It’s how…
10 Things I Noticed About | Worthing.in Book Haul
It’s been almost a year since I started browsing worthing.in collection. After the locked bookshelf fiasco, I couldn’t resist the temptation and ordered a lot. So, here goes, My Big Fat ₹1,299 Book Haul… More like a love story with foxing and fate… The Timeline of Temptation It all began on June 25. I…
Unboxing Thrills | My Big Fat ₹1,299 Book Haul | Worthing.in
They say love comes in many forms — sometimes, it’s a person with a crooked smile; sometimes, it’s a slice of warm chocolate cake at 2 a.m.; and sometimes, it’s thirty-four dusty, foxing-sprinkled books showing up at your doorstep, each promising to whisk you into another world. Let me tell you about the…
Book Review | The Giver of Stars | Jojo Moyes
Book Details Title: The Giver of Stars Author: Jojo Moyes # of pages: 448 Link to Buy: Amazon.in Synopsis ‘Alice had come halfway across the world to find that, yet again, she was considered wanting. Well, she thought, if that was what everyone thought, she might as well live up to it.’ England, late 1930s, and…
Book Review | Last Straw | Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3 | Jeff Kinney
The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3) by Jeff Kinney Let’s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg’s father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and…
Book Review | Once Gone | Blake Pierce
Once Gone (a Riley Paige Mystery—Book 1) Women are turning up dead in the rural outskirts of Virginia, killed in grotesque ways, and when the FBI is called in, they are stumped. A serial killer is out there, his frequency increasing, and they know there is only one agent good enough to crack this…
Book Review | Before He Kills | Blake Pierce
Before he Kills (A Mackenzie White Mystery—Book 1) In the cornfields of Nebraska a woman is found murdered, strung up on a pole, the victim of a deranged killer. It doesn’t take long for the police to realize a serial killer is on the loose—and that his spree has just begun. Detective Mackenzie White,…
Book Review | Cause to Kill | Blake Pierce
Cause to Kill (An Avery Black Mystery—Book 1) Homicide Detective Avery Black has been through hell. Once a top criminal defense attorney, she fell from grace when she managed to get a brilliant Harvard professor off—only to watch him kill again. She lost her husband and her daughter, and her life fell apart around…