Reviewsday: Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
When I first saw this book, I instantly fell in love with it. I’m not sure whether it was the bright, popping colours, the mysterious, smiling girl with her sunglasses or the little personalized coffee mugs on the back cover that drew me initially but after I’d read the blurb, I was completely hooked. Audrey, […]
Reviewsday: His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
A little recap of Book 1, Northern Lights (just to get you hooked): Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford’s Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the […]
QBD Reviews: Bream Gives Me Hiccups by Jesse Eisenberg
Every so often a person comes along who has an immense talent that seems to surprise the vast majority of the world. It becomes even more surprising when that person already exists in the public eye. Jesse Eisenberg is an actor, and by all public accounts he could not possibly have any other talents. But […]
QBD Reviews: Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler
Thou art Famine. Go thee unto the world. Yesterday, seventeen-year-old Lisabeth Lewis was just Lisabeth Lewis. Calorie-counting, over-exercising, plain old Lisabeth. Her biggest worry was hiding her eating disorder from her boyfriend and her family. Today, Lisabeth is no longer just Lisabeth – she’s Famine. The Famine. You know, black rider, horseman of the apocalypse, […]
