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*I am reviewing this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own. * Title: No Sad Songs Author: Frank Morelli Publisher: Fish Out Of Water Books Source: Publisher Rating: 4/5 stars ( Amazon | Goodreads ) Book Summary: Following a family tragedy, 18-year-old Gabe LoScuda suddenly finds himself thrust into the role of caregiver for his ailing grandfather. Between the shopping trips and the doctor visits with Grandpa, Gabe and his friend John try to salvage their senior year, meet girls, and make the varsity baseball team. It doesn’t take long for Gabe to realize that going to school and looking after a grandfather with Alzheimer’s is more work than he ever imagined. And when long-lost Uncle Nick appears on the scene, Gabe soon finds that living with Nick and Grandpa is like babysitting two grown men. Aside from John, the only person who truly understands Gabe is Sofia, a punk-rocking rebel he meets at the veteran’s hospital. When th...

*I am reviewing this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own. * Today Just Don't Mention It by Estelle Maskame is released and it is a wonderful book. It is a companion novel to Did I Mention I Love You? series but it can be read without reading this previous series. Although a great book, I have been really busy so have not managed to finish it I love it so far so instead of a review, I am going to give you five reasons why you should read this book! So let's get started... Title: Just Don't Mention It Author: Estelle Maskame  Publisher: Ink Road Source: Publisher Rating: 4/5 stars ( Amazon | Goodreads) Number 1: The characters So this is mainly for Tyler who is just a great character who is well developed and is someone that you can see grows throughout the novel. This may not be a good thing for Tyler's character but seeing the consequences of the actions is just so interesting to see. This is partly because it i...

*I am reviewing this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own. * Title: Scythe Author: Neal Shusterman  Publisher: Walker Books Source: Publisher Rating: 4.5/5 stars ( Amazon | Goodreads) Book Summary: A dark, gripping and witty thriller in which the only thing humanity has control over is death. In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice and as Citra and Rowan come up against a terrifyingly corrupt Scythedom, it becomes clear that the winning apprentice's first task will be to glean the loser.   Book Review: Being a massive fan of Neal ...

So if you could not see by the title of the blog post, it has been three years since I posted my first blog post. I can happily say that this blog has changed a lot in three years, We have gone through different layouts, different content posts. Quite a bit has changed but I am still here! This blog has increased my passion for reading and has been a way that I can spread this with everyone in this community. This has led me to read some incredible books and interact with some great people and I can happily say that I feel part of the community.  Since my first year, I hoped to track the changes in my blogging life especially in terms of my reading life. So let's get started... Q1) Favourite Book The Book Thief   by Marcus Zusak- OK so this one hasn't changed. A book still has not beaten how I feel about this book. Let the hunt continue... Q2) What book do you hope to read in the next  year? Northern Lights   by Phillip Pullman- Thi...