Author: jaynereads
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Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson
I am absolutely fascinated by literature that doesn’t make the reader privy to the names of main characters. Here we never learn who the couple being described are by name. But we learn at least what one of them is thinking and seeing. And it’s so poetically done. We’re also confronted with the reality of…
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The Hemlock Cure – Joanne Burn
When I was offered a chance to review The Hemlock Cure, I jumped at it. Entirely based off the fact that as a teenager, one New Years Eve, my dad decided to drag us to the village of Eyam in Derbyshire. I think he felt it would be educational to learn about the place that…
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Blog Tour – We Are The Brennans – Tracey Lange
In the debut novel from Tracey Lange, we are introduced to the Brennan family. An Irish American clan who in recent years have broken apart due to the absence of the only daughter, Sunday and the death of their mother, Maura. Sunday eloped to Los Angeles to pursue a writing career. Things haven’t worked out…
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The Dead of Winter – Nicola Upson – Review
It’s Christmas 1938. Tensions are high across Europe. Everything feels as though it’s about to change. Nicola Upson takes us to St Michael’s Mount for a Cornish Christmas with a twist. The Dead of Winter almost opens up the fourth wall of fiction and brings in a real life movie star. It definitely adds that…
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I’m Still Here (Black dignity in a world made for whiteness) – Austin Channing Brown
“Ain’t no friends here” the words of Dr Simms who taught African American and Mexican American history at North Park University where Austin Channing Brown studied for her BA. Dr Simms was only her second black teacher and this one sentence forms the basis for “I’m still here”. Austin is saying nothing different to any…
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The Search Party – Simon Lelic
BOOKSTAGRAM TOUR POST 16 year old Sadie Saunders is missing. One of the UK’s biggest missing persons searches is taking place. But Sadie’s friends don’t think the police are looking in the right place. Telling no one, they set out into the woods to find her. The trouble is, each of the five friends has…
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What I read in July 2020
Inland – Tea Obreht A novel about the American West from the viewpoint of a woman. Nora is struggling to keep her family both together and alive. They have very little money and even less water. Coming from a line of families who have spent their lives moving from place to place in search of…
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Blog Tour – Supper Club – Lara Williams
Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry – until the day she invents Supper Club. Supper Club is a secret society for hungry women. Women who are sick of bad men and bad sex, of hinted expectations to be thinner, smile more, talk less. So they gather at night to feast and…
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JULY TBR
With libraries in this area looking to stagger their opening across July, I think it’s time to read the books I borrowed just as lockdown was happening. Renewals are extended to August but I’m doing to spend this month trying to reduce the pile. I don’t think I’ll succeed however I’m willing to give it…
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