Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Monday, 30 December 2013
Musing Mondays (30th December)
Musing Mondays is run by Should Be Reading and asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on
about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!
I didn't ask for any books for Christmas this year, I still have a large TBR pile I'm going through both of tree and kindle books. I did get some titles from the 12 days of Kindle sale using some of my giftcard balance and my husband did give me another Amazon giftcard so I shall be treating myself again very soon.
These are the eBooks I bought:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (30th December)
Its Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme run by Book Journey and you can mention books you've just finished, are currently reading and any you plan to read this week. You can leave a link to your blog and read other bloggers posts.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, I certainly did and haven't had much time for reading. I did finish Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe and I'm currently reading Familiar by J. Robert Lennon. I heard about this novel a few weeks ago on another blog and thought it sounded interesting, then saw it was in the 12 days of Kindle sale so treated myself.
Saturday, 28 December 2013
Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe
On Christmas Eve Charles Hillenbrand takes his four year old daughter Naomi shopping in London when the unthinkable happens. She disappears from a toy shop and the next day her murdered body is discovered in a field. Her heartbroken parents are soon experiencing hauntings in their Cambridge home and Charles is determined to find out what is going on.
Naomi's Room started well and I found it scary, particularly when Charles is shown the ghostly photographs. However I felt the last quarter of this short novel lost its way and the ending seemed as though it had been rushed. Once the cause of the hauntings was revealed and the story became gory then it ceased to be creepy for me.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Book Blurb:
On Christmas Eve,
four-year-old Naomi Hillenbrand disappears from her father's side in a
crowded toy store; on Christmas Day, her mutilated body is discovered in
a field. But a part of Naomi remains, unwilling or unable to leave
this world. Ghostly photographs capture her playing with two other
little girls dressed in Victorian garb while a sinister man in black
watches...watches them all.
Charles Hillenbrand is tormented by grief. When sinister whispers in the night begin to taunt him, he tries to uncover the evil truth behind Naomi's death. But long-buried secrets await him and threaten to take him beyond the brink of sanity, to a place where he could lose his very soul.
Charles Hillenbrand is tormented by grief. When sinister whispers in the night begin to taunt him, he tries to uncover the evil truth behind Naomi's death. But long-buried secrets await him and threaten to take him beyond the brink of sanity, to a place where he could lose his very soul.
Friday, 27 December 2013
Book Blogger Hop 27th December - 2nd January
The Book Blogger Hop is hosted at Ramblings Of A Coffee Addicted Writer and this week's question is:
What books are you looking forward to reading in 2014?
The one I'm most looking forward to is Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King which is due to be published in June. Also Mother Island by Bethan Roberts, Road Ends by Mary Lawson and The Dynamite Room by Jason Hewitt are on my wishlist.
Wednesday, 25 December 2013
Friday, 20 December 2013
Book Beginnings On Fridays (Naomi's Room)
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
My book beginning is Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe
I found them yesterday, quite by chance. The photographs. The ones we took at Christmas all those years ago. And the later ones, the photographs we took in Egypt. Memories of an entire winter. I had thought them lost or destroyed. Perhaps I had wanted it that way.
Book Blurb:
On Christmas Eve,
four-year-old Naomi Hillenbrand disappears from her father's side in a
crowded toy store; on Christmas Day, her mutilated body is discovered in
a field. But a part of Naomi remains, unwilling or unable to leave
this world. Ghostly photographs capture her playing with two other
little girls dressed in Victorian garb while a sinister man in black
watches...watches them all.
Charles Hillenbrand is tormented by grief. When sinister whispers in the night begin to taunt him, he tries to uncover the evil truth behind Naomi's death. But long-buried secrets await him and threaten to take him beyond the brink of sanity, to a place where he could lose his very soul.
Charles Hillenbrand is tormented by grief. When sinister whispers in the night begin to taunt him, he tries to uncover the evil truth behind Naomi's death. But long-buried secrets await him and threaten to take him beyond the brink of sanity, to a place where he could lose his very soul.
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