Labels and Other Stories by Louis de Bernières Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage, and the constant attentions of…
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Book Review | Breath of Fresh Air | Erica James
Breath of Fresh Air by Erica James Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage, and the constant attentions of her…
Book Review | Shuter Murgh Riasat | Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Book Review Shuter Murgh Riasat / شترمرغ ریاست by Mustansar Hussain Tarar A collection of 39 short stories About Author Mustansar Hussain Tarar (Urdu: مستنصر حسين تارڑ) is a Pakistani author, actor, the first Morning Show presenter and a pioneer trekker – in his own words: a vagabond. For more details, read his Goodreads…
Book Review | The House That Spoke | Zuni Chopra
The House That Spoke | Zuni Chopra Fourteen-year-old Zoon Razdan is witty, intelligent and deeply perceptive. She also has a deep connection with magic. She was born into it. The house that she lives in is fantastical—life thrums through its wooden walls—and she can talk to everything in it, from the armchair and the…
Book Review | Never Greener | Ruth Jones
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The past has a habit of tracking us down. And tripping us up. When Kate was twenty-two, she had an intense and passionate affair with a married man, Callum, which ended in heartbreak. Kate thought she’d never get over it. Seventeen years later, life has moved on…
Book Review | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll
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…
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 Haul | Buying Preloved Books | Butterfly BooksByWeight
Hey, bookworms! It’s time to talk about my latest addition to TBR pile. You’re right. It’s another book haul, another bulk of preloved books. Butterfly Books By Weight Unlike other preloved bookstores, this one offers every book, EVERY book by weight. I added 17 books to my list, and then I stopped. I was…
