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We Made A New Booktube Account!
Hey guys. Today I wanted to tell you about the Booktube channel that I recently made with Faye and Beth! I have been wanting to make a Booktube channel for a while, but I have always been to scared, so making one with my friends seemed like a good way around that fear. We have had our channel for about a month now and I have been really enjoying it.
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Review: Wonderland by Juno Dawson
Wonderland by Juno Dawson
Genre: Contemporary
Published by: Quercus
Pages: 286
Release date: 28/05/2020
Rating: ★★★★☆
Trigger warnings: Mental health, self harm, suicide, sexual assault, drug use, murder
Summary: Alice lives in a world of stifling privilege and luxury – but none of it means anything when your own head plays tricks on your reality. When her troubled friend Bunny goes missing, Alice becomes obsessed with finding her. On the trail of her last movements, Alice discovers a mysterious invitation to ‘Wonderland’: the party to end all parties – three days of hedonistic excess to which only the elite are welcome.Will she find Bunny there? Or is this really a case of finding herself? Because Alice has secrets of her own, and ruthless socialite queen Paisley Hart is determined to uncover them, whatever it takes.
Alice is all alone, miles from home and without her essential medication. She can trust no-one, least of all herself, and now she has a new enemy who wants her head…
A searing exploration of mental health, gender and privilege, from the most addictive YA novelist in the UK today.
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WWW Wednesday: My Weekly Reading Update – 01/07/2020
Hey guys. I’m finally back with another WWW Wednesday post, where I share with you what I’m reading! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Taking on a World of Words. All you have to do is answer these three questions: 1) What are you currently reading? 2) What did you recently finish reading? 3) What do you think you’ll read next?
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Review: Margot & Me by Juno Dawson
Margot & Me by Juno Dawson
Genre: Contemporary
Published by: Hot Key Books
Pages: 401
Release date: 26/01/2017
Rating: ★★★★☆
Summary: How can you hate someone in the present and love them in the past?Fliss’s mum needs peace and quiet to recuperate from a long illness, so they both move to the countryside to live with Margot, Fliss’s stern and bullying grandmother. Life on the farm is tough and life at school is even tougher, so when Fliss unearths Margot’s wartime diary she sees an opportunity to get her own back.
But Fliss soon discovers Margot’s life during the evacuation was full of adventure, mystery … and even passion. What’s more, she learns a terrible secret that could tear her whole family apart…
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Blog Tour: Fix by Lily Temperley
Title: Fix: Sex, Lies and Banking
Author: Lily Temperley
Release Date: 7th June 2014 (But released with a new cover)
Genre: Romance
Page Count: 218
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23785609-fix
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fix-Lies-Banking-Lily-Temperley/dp/190947701X
Summary: What’s love got to do with it? Patrick Harrington is handsome, wealthy and successful. He is also a high-functioning addict that craves his next fix. His vices of choice are money and women: taking risks at work and pursuing multiple sexual conquests. Determined to get what he wants, as he always does, Harrington fixates on Alexandra Fisher – the latest pretty young thing in his office.
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Blog Tour: Charlestown to Charlestown and Beyond by Mike Nolan (Guest Post)
Title: Charlestown to Charlestown and Beyond
Author: Mike Nolan
Release Date: 16th June 2020
Genre: Non-Fiction
Page Count: 214
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53106155-charlestown-to-charlestown-and-beyond
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charlestown-Charleston-Beyond-Mike-Nolan-ebook/dp/B07RWPLPZ4
Summary: Mike Nolan grew up in the deprivation of post- war Britain. As a young man he had a dream that somehow became a reality; to live his life on the high seas to indulge his passion for all things nautical. Eclectic employment as a musician, a hod carier, butler and boatbuilder meant that Nolan’s life never confirmed to a nine to five existence. All the while the call of the sea, like a siren, was impossible to resist. His life as a sailor, fulfilled his wildest dreams but saw him hit by a series of catastrophes, including hurricanes and a violent shipwreck. On a more positive note, he did at least manage to save both his wife and her cat! This is a rags to riches story with a sharp sting in its tale.
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Blog Tour: Hello Dark by John Coxhead (Guest Post)
Title: Hello Dark
Author: John Coxhead
Release Date: 26th May 2020
Genre: Picture Book
Page Count: 104
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53550570-hello-dark
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hello-Dark-John-Coxhead-ebook/dp/B088WL38DC
Summary: Welcoming and becoming comfortable with the dark is such an important thing for children to learn. Simply by saying ‘Hello Dark’ has proven – in the author’s experience – to be a fun, engaging way of overcoming the worries and fears of the dark. This delightful story for children aged 5 to 8 can help support them at bedtime and during the day.
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Blog Tour: Midnight’s Twins by Holly Race (Extract)
Title: Midnight’s Twins
Author: Holly Race
Release Date: 11th June 2020
Genre: YA
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Hot Key32 Books
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52244702-hypnos
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Midnights-Twins-Holly-Race/dp/1471409163/
Summary: Fern King is about to uncover a place that she could not have imagined in all her wildest dreams. Annwn is the dream mirror of our world, a place where Dreamers walk in their slumber, their dreams playing out all around them. An enchanted, mysterious place that feeds our own world – as without dreams, without a place where our imaginations and minds can be nourished, what kind of humans would we be?But Annwn is a place as full of dangers as it is wonders: it is a place where dreams can kill you. Annwn and its Dreamers are protected by an ancient order known as the Knights – and when Fern’s hated twin Ollie is chosen to join their ranks, Fern will have to do whatever she can to prove she is one of them too.
But the world Fern discovers in Annwn, in this dream mirror of her London, is a fragile one, threatened by vicious nightmares. Nightmares that are harder and harder for the Knights to defeat. Something dark is jeopardising the peace and stability of Annwn, something that must be rooted out at all costs. And gradually, Fern realises that the danger lurking inside our sleep is more insidious and terrifying than any nightmare. Because if you can influence someone’s dreams, you can control their thoughts …
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Blog Tour: Beer and Sauerkraut by John Morgan (Guest Post)
Title: Beer & Sauerkraut
Author: John Morgan
Release Date: 9th June 2020
Genre: Non-Fiction
Page Count: 104
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53845484-beer-sauerkraut
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beer-Sauerkraut-Insiders-Guide-Germany/dp/1913568040
Summary:
John Morgan was born in the UK in 1938 and qualified there as a chartered surveyor.
He moved to Zurich for three years in 1969 to work for a US conglomerate.
He then moved to Germany, where he eventually established a successful property consultancy firm together with a Dutch partner, selling this in due course to a German bank.
John has a German wife and four sons and now lives in retirement on Lake Constance. Having dual nationality and conversing today mostly in German, he is now uncertain whether he is British or German!
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Blog Tour: Pirate and R by Daniele Forni
Title: The Pirate and R
Author: Daniele Forni
Genre: Picture Book
Publication Date: 2nd June 2020
Page Count: 30
Publisher: Clink Street Publishing
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53666365-the-pirate-and-r
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pirate-R-Daniele-Forni/dp/1913340686/
Summary:The Pirate and R is a simple introduction to the statistical software R, specifically aimed at future data scientists.Got to www.thelittledatascientist.co.uk for more codes to use and to stay up to date regarding future publications.
