I must have had this book on my shelf for well over a year and every time I went to read it I got distracted by something else. I finally got a chance to read it when I pulled it from my book basket as one of my reads. Synopsis (as on back of book)…
Author: hshattock29
Book Fanatic. Seriously, I might have a problem, there are too many TBR books in my house.
Outside of books, I'm just a normal woman living in the UK. My name is Hannah. I love playing on my Xbox (the Assassin's Creed series being a favourite of mine), I love colouring and have now amassed 30 colouring books. I love cooking and baking (especially cheesecakes) and experimenting with recipes on Pinterest. I love dogs, I have two Italian Greyhounds, Freddie who is twelve and a anti-social gentleman and Luca who is two and a crazy blur of beige. I am also a self confessed stationery addict and a member of Slytherin (I dare you to come for me!)
Weekend Catch Up
This week has passed slowly and quickly for me. I spent half of it in bed and half of it living. I had a horrific head cold that developed over last Sunday and though I bravely ventured into work Monday morning, within half an hour of being there I was told to go home because…
20. A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
Another Waterstones Haul book. I was quite excited to read this book. I thought the premise was quite interesting. It was giving me ‘City of Ember’ by Jeanne DuPrau vibes. Synopsis (as taken from the back of the book): She was alone. This child. This odd and terrible child. In the underground city of Caverna, the people are unlike any other: they have faces…
19. The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
Another book from my Waterstones book haul. I was intrigued by the book cover and the short reviews from other authors on the first page. Synopsis (as taken from the back of the book) is as follows: When their plane crashes, four children are stranded in the Amazon jungle. Now they have to survive alone….
Weekend Catch Up
This week has been difficult. I think it has been the first time in this new year where I have not felt the best version of myself. I have struggled this week with my insomnia, my OCD, my anxiety, my iron deficiency and my headaches. I have struggled to make it through to the end…
18. Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher
I picked this one up in my Waterstones Haul. I was supposed to read this at the beginning of books 11-20 but below you will see why I didn’t. Synopsis (as taken from Amazon): Kay felt everything change in the room around her. Everything. Kay’s father is working late – as usual. Fed up, her mother bundles Kay and her sister into the…
17. The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Found this in Waterstones YA section and it became a part of the haul. Synopsis (as written on back of book): It was not enough, all knowledge – any knowledge – called to faith and there was a delicious, posionous pleasure in stealing it unseen. Faith has a thirst for science and a knack for uncovering secrets that the rigid confines of her upbringing cannot suppress. When she finds her disgraced father’s journals, filled with the notes and…
16. Secrets of a Sun King by Emma Carroll
Stumbled across Emma Carroll on Amazon, read all the blurbs of her books and decided that I needed to read them all! This is the first book of hers that I purchased. Synopsis (as on back of book): London 1922 A discovery from ancient Egypt… A cursed package… The untold story of a young pharaoh… When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her Grandad’s doorstep, she is shocked to…
January
This month has flown by. It has also been incredibly slow. There is something about January that makes it feel like its own year. I’ve accomplished far more this January than I did this time last year. I managed to read 15 books in January. I hope I can read as many in February. My…
The Next 10 Books
21. The Lost Garden by Kate Kerrigan 22. A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge 23. An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson 24. The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club by Alex Bell 25. Explorers on Witch Mountain by Alex Bell 26. Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen 27. City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab 28….
At the End of the World is a Book 