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11Mar 2022 by Luke Harkness No Comments

Book review of The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

I've been a big fan of Lucy Foley's last two books - they brought with them a perfect sense of progression and intrigue throughout the book that kept you on tenterhooks throughout. However, The Paris Apartment fails on these two fronts and really didn't interest me. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you to support the blog. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. The Paris Apartment is technically Foley's sixth book, though to many it may feel like her third after The Hunting Party shot her into the mainstream and The Guest List solidified her as an author…

10Mar 2022 by Luke Harkness

Have You Seen These Super Useful Book-Reader Gadgets?

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Reading is great fun - you can escape to a different world, fantasise about other characters or just end up crying at people that don't even exist. However, there are definitely ways you can make reading more fun - with gadgets! I'm somebody who has recently become obsessed with those Tik Tok products or Facebook products that pop up for some odd gadget that's usually around £5-£50 and solves two problems at once. After looking across the web for some of the best things book readers should definitely pick up that may maybe hadn't thought of before. Below are just some of the great things I've found that I will definitely be picking up!! Please note that this article contains affiliate links. Affiliate links mean that if you choose to…

08Mar 2022 by Luke Harkness No Comments

Book review of This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay

Book reviews, Nonfiction

Working in the NHS, I've wanted to read This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay for quite some time. I finally picked up recently and it was so interesting to read from the point of someone who has worked in the NHS for about 2.5 years now. Pin me to Pinterest! This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay is essentially a book of chosen diary entries from Kay himself of his time working for the NHS as a Junior Doctor from 2004 to 2010. It's a fascinating look into the workings of the NHS and the less-than-glamorous lives that the majority of doctors actually work in the NHS. This Is Going To Hurt plot - 5/5 How do you rate the plot of a book that is literally…

05Mar 2022 by Luke Harkness

I Asked my Twitter Followers for their Saddest Books

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Twitter is a fantastic place to engage your audience with questions that ask them to give their opinion. It's a place where you can gain knowledge, get some book ideas or, in this case at least, get some great content to create a really useful blog post for others. Recently I created a post that showed some of the responses I received when I asked my Twitter followers which books they thought had the best twist in them. It was a tweet that received so many responses that I wanted to share as part of an article to not only give you all some options of books to read to guarantee a good twist but also provide my audience with some genuinely great content. That article turned out to be…

03Mar 2022 by Luke Harkness No Comments

Book review of It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

Book reviews, Contemporary Fiction, Romance

Colleen Hoover is an author I've been meaning to pick up for quite some time. I've seen a lot of her books on my social feeds as books that are often five-star reads. It Ends With Us was a book gifted to me recently and so it's my first Hoover book. I'll let you into a secret early on: it's absolutely bloody brilliant. It Ends With Us is a book that focuses on some dark matters and some uncomfortable matters but Hoover writes these in such a raw but intelligent way that will have you caring far too much. It Ends With Us plot - 5/5 It Ends With Us is a story about Lily and inevitably her relationship with two men: Ryle and Atlas. We follow the tale of…

02Mar 2022 by Luke Harkness No Comments

My 5 Most Read Blog Posts from February 2022

Features, Monthly Round Ups

At the start of each month, I highlight the best performing posts throughout the previous month. I only include articles I actually posted throughout that month and they're written in order. I don't do this to brag, it is to highlight what posts work well and which possibly don't for those prospective bloggers. Here are the most successful blog posts from the month of February 2022. Throughout February there were slightly less articles for a couple of reasons: there were two less days and also I didn\'t read as many books as I was self-isolating so I didn't actually have as much content to write about. However, there were still some very successful blog posts to discuss, including one that has gone on to be one of my most successful…

28Feb 2022 by Luke Harkness No Comments

My February 2022 Reading Round-up

Features, Monthly Round Ups

A couple of factors added into the fewer amount of books I managed to finish this month: mostly a combination of different forms of isolation from Covid. This meant that I didn't have as much time to plug in to my audiobooks which is generally how I get through as many books as I do. [caption id="attachment_1772" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Pin me to Pinterest![/caption] Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products via the links below to support the blog, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my opinion of the products themselves. Therefore throughout Feburary, I read three books. One of them was particularly long and the other two…

25Feb 2022 by Luke Harkness No Comments

Book Reader Problems Book tag

Blog Tags, Features

Hi! I'm back once again with another book tag. Today's book tag is the Book Reader Problems Book tag which focuses on problems that all book readers face. These are things such as having too many books on your TBR and having to choose between them or trying to keep up with your reading challenge. I've had to adapt some of my answers to the questions as I'm not your typical reader (not every book I read is a physical copy). However, there are some great questions in here that I think pretty much any reader can relate to. Let me know if you end up doing this tag and if you do, make sure to link back to this page or tag me on whichever social media platform is…

23Feb 2022 by Luke Harkness 1 Comment

Book review of American Assassin by Vince Flynn

Book reviews, Thriller

When talking about the action thriller genre, it would be wrong to talk about some of the greats of the game without talking about Vince Flynn and his Mitch Rapp books. American Assassin is technically a prequel that has since gone to become accepted as the first in the book series. It introduces us to a very talented but flawed character whose job it becomes to hunt down some of the most dangerous people in the world. Pin me to Pinterest! Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase American Assassin via any of the links below, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the book. American Assassin…

20Feb 2022 by Luke Harkness 2 Comments

Book review of The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

Book reviews, Thriller

Jason Bourne is one of the most famous action stars you can find in books. Ludlum was one of the first to do it (despite Fleming of course) and has gone on to write a very successful trilogy and then have many other books written under the Bourne name as a result. The Bourne Identity is the first in the series - but is it my sort of action thriller? Pin me to Pinterest! The Bourne Identity introduces us to Jason Bourne who wakes up without much memory of his previous life. He doesn't know where he has come from, why he's ended up where he has and these talents he has are unknown to him. It's a great premise for a story: a man doesn't know why he's a…

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