Fiction
The Literary Aftermath: 5 Books That Will Ruin Your Life (In the Best Way Possible)
There is a specific kind of “ruined” that only a bibliophile understands. It’s that hollow, dazed feeling you get when you close a book and realize the world outside hasn’t changed, but you have. You look at your coffee, your commute, and your relationships, and they all look slightly different—sharper, perhaps, or more fragile.
By Mariana Farias5 months ago in BookClub
Incredibooks: My Prison Penpals
Imagine being forced into a sheltered life which is a nightmare that you are unaware of, but when you wake up it’s like a beautiful dream down an ugly path is discovered. That’s the best way I can describe “My Prison Penpals” which is the first book in the “Undertakers” series by best selling author Shona Knight.
By Joe Patterson5 months ago in BookClub
Magatha Crispy and the Stalker on the Levels. Content Warning.
Instalment 1 The Somerset Levels in winter are not for the faint-hearted. Fog rolls in from the marshes without warning, swallowing roads and landmarks whole, leaving only the skeletal shapes of willow trees to mark where solid ground ends and water begins.
By Stephen Harrison5 months ago in BookClub
A Thousand Splendid Suns
I didn’t expect a book to break me the way A Thousand Splendid Suns did. I picked it up on a quiet evening, thinking it would just be another story to pass the time. Instead, it felt like someone gently took my heart apart—piece by piece—and asked me to look at what I usually avoid.
By John Smith5 months ago in BookClub
Rachel Reviews: Antarctica by Claire Keegan
My attention was first drawn to Claire Keegan when I watched a film based on her book "Small Things Like These". I was pulled into the quietness of the story, how we peered into the lives of ordinary people, observers to the tragedy and tensions there.
By Rachel Deeming5 months ago in BookClub
I just finished Straight On Till Morning
Straight on Till Morning (2018) is part of Disney's Twisted Tales series, a collection of "what if" retellings that reimagine classic Disney stories with a darker or unexpected twist. Written by Liz Braswell, this novel asks the question: What if Wendy had never met Peter Pan? Rather than following the familiar story of a girl whisked away to Neverland by a magical boy, Braswell crafts an entirely new journey — one in which Wendy Darling finds her own path to adventure, and discovers that the legends she has always believed in may be far more complicated than any bedtime story.
By Parsley Rose 5 months ago in BookClub
