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Aug 30, 2022
3 min

Review: Search, by Michelle Huneven

We have a surprising contender for the top of 2022 list! One of my book club groups had been raving about this book so I picked it up a...

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Review: Remote Sympathy, by Catherine Chidgey

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Aug 25, 2022
3 min

Review: Remote Sympathy, by Catherine Chidgey

Attention, readers: we have another entry in the (continually further lengthening!) list of potentially best books of 2022. This book...

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Aug 16, 2022
2 min

Review: Trust, by Hernan Diaz

All right folks, it's happening - we are starting to get into prize season! The longlist for the 2022 Booker Prize was announced on July...

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Apr 28, 2022
2 min

Review: The No-Show, by Beth O'Leary

Gosh darn it, Beth O'Leary has done it again - I think this is her best novel since The Flatshare (which I have raved about and will not...

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Jan 24, 2022
3 min

Review: Beartown, by Frederik Backman

Frederik Backman should be arrested for war crimes against my tear ducts. That's it, that's the whole review. WARNING - this review...

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Review: Les Oubliés du dimanche, by Valérie Perrin

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Jan 10, 2022
2 min

Review: Les Oubliés du dimanche, by Valérie Perrin

Alert, alert - we have the first potential entry into the 'best of 2022' list already read and filed away in the bookcase! (Sorry,...

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Dec 31, 2021
6 min

Best Books of 2021

All right, squad, here we are. 2021 was a spectacular year in reading for me - of the 242 books I've read this year, I had a 'could be in...

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Dec 30, 2021
2 min

Best historical fiction of 2021

We are wrapping up the end-of-year wrap-ups with my seven favourite historical fiction novels of 2021 - and boy do these range (sort of)...

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Dec 29, 2021
2 min

Best easy reads of 2021

It's the last week of the year, lovely little Internet friends, and so we're doing some more end-of-the-year wrap-ups! This is number...

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Dec 28, 2021
3 min

Best mysteries 2021

Hello again my lovely little Internet friends! Here is another wrap-up, end-of-year list for you today as we continue the countdown to...

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Dec 27, 2021
2 min

Best contemporary novels of 2021

We continue the wrap-up lists of 2021 with a brief foray into the best novels I read that were both written and set in contemporary times...

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Dec 26, 2021
2 min

Best romances of 2021

We continue with the end-of-year wrap-ups! This brief snapshot will give you my six favourite romances of the year. All of these books...

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Review: King Hereafter, by Dorothy Dunnett

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Dec 16, 2021
3 min

Review: King Hereafter, by Dorothy Dunnett

BEWARE: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS. Okay, you've been adequately warned; let us now proceed. Wowza. Just wowza. Dorothy Dunnett hasn't,...

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Dec 15, 2021
3 min

Review: Imperium, by Robert Harris

A very good piece of historical fiction that did everything I want my historical fiction to do - it completely engrossed me into a very...

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Review: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, by Balli Kaur Jaswal

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Dec 7, 2021
2 min

Review: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, by Balli Kaur Jaswal

A book that I ended up liking way more than I actually thought I would! I realise that sounds weird, seeing as I purchase books for...

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Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

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Nov 30, 2021
2 min

Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

This is going to be another one of those weird reviews where it won't be quite long enough to justify being a full review, but also not...

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Review: It Happened One Summer, by Tessa Bailey

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Nov 26, 2021
2 min

Review: It Happened One Summer, by Tessa Bailey

Boy am I glad I decided to just jump ship and start reading this book - it has salvaged my month of romance reads by not being terrible,...

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Nov 26, 2021
2 min

Review: Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge

This book was simply phenomenal. It's going to be in my top of 2021 list for sure. It's a beautiful historical fiction set in immediately...

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Review: La porte du voyage sans retour, by David Diop

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Nov 24, 2021
3 min

Review: La porte du voyage sans retour, by David Diop

A very good book! This makes my 'potential best of 2021' list now 31 books long! SOMEONE SEND HELP! Even my recently purchased big...

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Review: The Passenger, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

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Nov 16, 2021
2 min

Review: The Passenger, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

Another book in contention for top of 2021 list (we're up to 29 now...) - although if I'm being honest, this one might slide off the list...

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I’m Amélie, I love books and reading, and I also love talking about them.

I’m incredibly lucky to be bilingual, so I read books in both French and English, and will talk about both of those on here – although I will do more in English, since I know that’s probably what the majority of the people who ever find this blog will be interested in!

I also like history, traveling, Shakespeare, coffee, cheese, musicals, Italian Baroque art, the ballet, Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You, flowers, makeup, high heels, and baking. Yes, I’m a walking cliché. I am aware.

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In case you’re curious – yes, Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book of all time.

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