Author: Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Publisher: Scribe Publications
First Published: 01 August 2023
“What grated the most was the realisation that maybe it had never been about talent, or beauty, or some indefinable golden quality. It has always been bullshit.”
I will start by saying that I was given a copy in exchange for an honest review. Thank so much to the wonderful team over at Scribe for sending a copy my way!
Continue reading “West Girls”
Author: Hannah Kent
Publisher: Picador Australia
First Published: 26 October 2021
“Love runs through her like a seam of gold. It runs through me, too, we are illuminated.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Picador Australia and Netgalley for sending a copy my way!
Continue reading “Devotion”
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Publisher: Hutchinson (Imprint of Random House UK)
First Published: 5 March 2019
Rating: 5 stars
“But that’s the thing. Art doesn’t owe anything to anyone.”
Author: Jamil Jan Kochai
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
First Published: 8 January 2019
Rating: 3.5 stars
“The interpreter asked us if we truly meant to find the ghosts of your dead children. ‘Even ghosts need company,’ Jawed said.”
Hello,
This is the time of year for either reflection or looking ahead to the new year. And this post will be one of the looking ahead ones. Today I’m going to share with you my most anticipated releases for 2019!
This won’t be a definitive list of all the releases I’m interested in. But I do create this list and add to it throughout the year. This list lives under the Anticipated Reads tab on the main menu.
Warring my thoughts on these books and why I’m excited will some time be incoherent rambling of excitement so I’m also including the currently available synopsis of each of these books.
Each photo is linked to the corresponding goodreads pages. So if you like the sound of it, you can add it to you goodreads TBR
They are listed in no particular order.
Author: Angela Meyer
Publisher: Ventura Press
First Published: 01 August 2018
Rating: 4 stars
“This water is so clear I can lean over and see myself. I am Narcissus, in love with the image of my suffering, fixed in place and soon to drown.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Ventura Press and NetGalley!
Hello!
I am here with August Wrap Up. This month I read a total of 4 books and 1,668 pages.
Author: Krissy Kneen
Publisher: Text Publishing
First Published: 31 August 2017
Rating: 5 stars
“I shellfish down into myself, now as I did them when I met her, curling up into the calcium carbonate whorls of me.”
Author: Mirandi Riwoe
Publisher: Seizure
First Published: 24 August 2017
Rating: 4.5 stars
“In vain, her eyes search beyond the other houses and palm trees for a glimpse of the sea. She will run away. She will flee to the water’s edge and the Ocean Queen will tell her what to do”
Author: Madeline Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
First Published: 19 April 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead then anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own.
wordsoftheroses.com 