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The Pool of Two Moons (The Witches of Eileanan #2) by Kate Forsyth,

It rarely happens that I find the sequel better than the first part, but voilá: here’s one of them! There’s a lot more action going on in this book and it’s fast paced as well. I [...]

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The Witches of Eileanan (The Witches of Eileanan #1) by Kate Forsyth

The first 10 pages or so felt like coming home to me. I have a severe sleeping disorder for years now and one thing that helps me to fall asleep is imagining myself lying in a safe, often magical, [...]

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Debt of Bones (Sword of Thruth #0) by Terry Goodkind

Debt of Bones by Terry Goodkind My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nice sidestory. I was expecting to find out more about Abby and how she became who she is later on. However, this wasn’t about that side [...]

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The Poison Throne by Celine Kiernan

The Poison Throne by Celine Kiernan My rating: 2 of 5 stars I’m very dissapointed in this one. The first 20 pages or so started out nicely, here’s a girl and her sick father, knocking on [...]

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Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower #4) by Stephen King

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars Maybe not the continuing ‘race’ to the Dark Tower the fans were hoping for in 1996, but WOW: great background story! We finally [...]

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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver My rating: 3 of 5 stars 3.5 stars I first heard of this book on one of Oprah’s Book Club episodes, god knows how many years ago. It struck me as [...]

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Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower #5) by Stephen King

Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King My rating: 2 of 5 stars 2.5 stars My god, I thought I was never going to finish this one…While I was very enthusiastic about continuing my ‘Dark [...]

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‘Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Oscar Wilde’s Short Stories’ by Oscar Wilde (narrated by Stephen Fry)

Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Oscar Wilde’s Short Stories by Oscar Wilde My rating: 3 of 5 stars 3.5 stars I was surprised to recognise two of these stories from one of my old [...]

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Rogues (Anthology edited by George R.R. Martin)

Kindle Edition, 832 pages Published June 17th 2014 by Bantam 21 stories with a roguish element in it. I hardly ever read short story collections. I guess I like well-developed characters and [...]

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Christmas Books by Charles Dickens

Christmas Books by Charles Dickens My rating: 3 of 5 stars I liked A Christmas Carol, I liked The Chimes and I liked Cricket on the Hearth. The last two stories however, weren’t that great in [...]

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