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review: never let me go by kazuo ishiguro

April 23, 2018

Title: Never Let Me Go

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Release date: January 5th, 2006

Publisher: FABER & FABER

Rating: 5/5

This week I have been completely engrossed in this story, I just finished reading it and I really want to tell you about it. The book I am talking about is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. This book follows our main character Kathy H. A now thirty-one-year-old woman who recollects memories from her youth spent at Hailsham, a boarding school somewhere in England. This book jumps through time as it shows the course of Kathy’s life up until her present day.

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books, discussion, personal, reading, ya

growing out of ya literature?

February 17, 2018

Today I really wanted to discuss a topic with you that has been on my mind for a long time: growing out of the Young Adult genre. I have been an avid reader of YA books since I was around 10 or 11 years old. I would even go as far as to say that I didn’t read anything else until about 3 years ago, and even then 90% of what I read was still YA. But lately there has been a HUGE shift in my reading taste. I rarely pick up a YA novel and when I look at the new releases, almost none of them really spark my interest. After mulling this over for a while I realised this had several different reasons.

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Book Talk, discussion, dorkyanddutch, Fantasy, Lotte, New Adult

Discussion: A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

May 14, 2017

Title: A  Court of Wings and Ruin

Author: Sarah J. Maas

Release date: May 2nd, 2017

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc

Rating: 3.5/5 stars

Warning: This is a book discussion, not a review. I will be discussing major spoilers so if you have not read this book and don’t want to know what happens then please do NOT read any further. If you want to read a spoiler-free review of the previous book, click here.

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Annotating, Book Talk, discussion, dorkyanddutch, Lotte

Book talk: Annotating books

April 16, 2017

Hello everyone. First of all happy Easter! I hope you’re having a great holiday (hopefully without too much homework). Today I want to talk to you guys about something I used to be very much against, but have started experimenting with a little while ago: annotating books. Now, I will walk you through the 3 methods I use. Some more frowned upon than others. I will tell you why I decided to start annotating my books. And, of course, the pros and cons of annotating.

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almost finished with this book and having some mixed feelings, the beginning was very quick but it’s slowed down quite a bit now. also not sure if i’m loving Redford as much as everyone else seems to be 😅

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