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In a hole in the ground…

...there lived a Hobbit. And I have finally managed to read the whole book and not just that first sentence over and over again. This was just one of those books that I began, got distracted, did...

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The Secret Garden

Aside from suffering from face-ache, I have also been trying to step up the pace with The Book Challenge. I finished The Secret Garden last week so I'm here to do a wee book review for you. The post...

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Far From The Madding Crowd

I feel like I'm really struggling for time at the moment and I hate that feeling. There's loads of things I want/need to be doing and I can't fit it all in. Reading is unfortunately one of those...

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The Woman in White

So I started Stumbling this morning, as I do every Sunday, and I realised that I'd been looking through links for almost twenty minutes and not one bookmark-worthy item had shown itself to me. I...

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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

As is so often the case when I begin a new novel from The Book Challenge list, I opened The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists with no real idea of what to expect. A gritty and quite grizzly setting...

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Kane and Abel

As is customary when beginning a book, I was curled up somewhere comfortable when I began Kane and Abel. It was late at night and I wasn't sure that I was ready to start a new book (sometimes starting...

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Giving Up On Dickens

Before you read this, it's important to know that I really wanted to like Dickens. I think it's wonderful that he succeeded so wholeheartedly despite his education being cut short, I admire the way he...

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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

After emerging breathless from the black hole into which I’d been sucked by Charles Dickens, I was desperate for my next classic to be a great one. I flicked through my Kindle downloads and nothing...

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude appeared to me like a gaggle of noisy, hyperactive children, running about my legs in flashes and blurs as I determinedly attempted to keep my eyes focused on them. The...

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Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials

For my latest Book Challenge read, my friend let me borrow her charity shop copies of Philip Pullman's, His Dark Materials. I'm unbelievably glad that I read these wonderful stories in their rightful...

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