Loved Loved LOVED this. Like Wuthering Heights/Thorne Birds in that its a tale of two generations, the first one fucking everything up for the second, and JUST like Wuthering Heights and The Thorne Birds the first half of the novel is a billion times better than the first. So I'm just going to talk about … Continue reading Catherine Cooksonathon IV – The Black Candle
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Catherine Cooksonathon III – Hannah Massey
Wow. This is such a complete opposite to what I had expected from the Cookson 'image' that I'm not sure what to write. I really don't want to do any spoilers because I would recommend this book as a book that you should read. It's not a romance, the opposite in fact, this is a … Continue reading Catherine Cooksonathon III – Hannah Massey
Blood-A-Thon Book 5 – Dead As A Doornail
Blood-a-thon The Southern Vampire Mystery Series Charlaine Harris *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** Book 5 - The Filler Book The one where very little actually happens. Jason becomes a were-panther. Sookie tries to be there for him as much as possible. He finds it weird, but is coping with it in the main. Sam gets shot. … Continue reading Blood-A-Thon Book 5 – Dead As A Doornail
Book Club goes Forth! – Cloud Atlas
Venue: Arcadia Bar Date: May 2011 Time: 5pm - 7pm Agreed on: Soulless by Gail Carriger Discussed: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell I'm afraid this won't be the most detailed of summaries - I've left it a little long, the notes I've made aren't providing me with as much information as I'd hoped! In general, … Continue reading Book Club goes Forth! – Cloud Atlas
Blood-A-Thon Book 4 – Dead to the World
Blood-a-thon The Southern Vampire Mystery Series Charlaine Harris *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** A mere three weeks have passed since the events of Club Dead. Sookie is driving close to home and happens across an amnesiac and terrified Eric. Despite wanting to keep her distance from all things vampiric, she agrees to keep him on after … Continue reading Blood-A-Thon Book 4 – Dead to the World
Blood-A-Thon Book 3 – Club Dead
Blood-a-thon The Southern Vampire Mystery Series Charlaine Harris *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** Bill has gone missing, right in the middle of a top secret project for the vampire hierarchy. Eric needs Sookie to find him or the Queen of Louisana will hit the roof and heads will roll. Again, I mean this in the literal … Continue reading Blood-A-Thon Book 3 – Club Dead
Blood-A-Thon Book 2 – Living Dead in Dallas
Blood-a-thon The Southern Vampire Mystery Series Charlaine Harris Living Dead in Dallas picks up only a few weeks after the first book ends. *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** Once again Sookie is called upon to work more closely with the vampire community, searching for a 'nest brother' in Dallas who has gone missing. She is also caught … Continue reading Blood-A-Thon Book 2 – Living Dead in Dallas
Catherine Cooksonathon II – The Blind Years
You know when you don't watch Neighbours for a while, and they one day you think, 'I reet fancy a bit of Neighbours' and so you stick it on and suddenly Sky's pregnant and Harold's dead and the world has exploded and Ramsey Street has been taken over by Channel 5? That's what starting this … Continue reading Catherine Cooksonathon II – The Blind Years
Catherine Cooksonathon I – The Girl
The first Catherine Cookson I've ever read, this book contains every single stereotype I associate with the writer. It's 1850. Bastard daughter is taken from Newcastle (Howay the lads with a liddle fishy etc etc) to the village of Hexham by her dying mother who presents her to the 'Big Man' in the village who … Continue reading Catherine Cooksonathon I – The Girl
The Cooksonathon
We like our Readathons, we do. N is currently in the middle of her Blood-a-thon, reading all the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Deep South Vampires not being my niche I've declined to join her on this one, instead going back to what BookElf's know best; trashy romantic fiction. Last year's Steelathon might have resulted in hives … Continue reading The Cooksonathon
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