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Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum

March 26, 2016

Flexing my DNF muscle

March 14, 2016

I feel like I return to the subject of DNFing books a lot, and the only explanation I have for this is […]

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

March 3, 2016

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

February 28, 2016

NaNoWriMo – the aftermath

February 18, 2016

Why is it that during the month of November I had no trouble bashing out a few hundred, sometimes a few thousand, […]

The Girl with all the Gifts by RM Carey

February 13, 2016

Lucky Us by Amy Bloom

February 9, 2016

Back in business

February 3, 2016

Top Ten Tuesday: The ones that got away

January 12, 2016

Hoo boy it’s been a while since I posted – lucky my new year’s resolution wasn’t to post more regularly! I think […]

Read Harder Challenge Wrap Up

January 3, 2016

While I didn’t quite complete all of the challenge reads for Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge 2015, for my first attempt at […]

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

December 27, 2015

Top Ten Tuesday: With Love From Santa

December 22, 2015

This week’s Broke and Bookish Top Ten Tuesday is asking for the books we hope that Santa will bring. Well, because I […]

The Boat by Nam Le

December 17, 2015

Read Harder Challenge Update

December 7, 2015

It’s been over six months since I posted even a word about the Read Harder Challenge that I am (apparently) doing this […]

NaNoWriMo-ver

November 30, 2015

And that’s pretty much a wrap on my first NaNoWriMo. While I wouldn’t call it a raging success, I do have 35,000 […]

Top Ten Tuesday: Giving Thanks

November 24, 2015

This week’s Broke and Bookish Top Ten Tuesday is all about giving thanks to the books. Perfect timing Broke and Bookish, it’s […]

Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens

November 21, 2015

Top ten tuesday: favourite quotes

November 17, 2015

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from The Broke and Bookish is the top ten quotes from books you’ve read in the past […]

#prayforparis

November 15, 2015

A nano(wrimo) break

November 12, 2015

Things have been a bit slack on the blog front in the Born and Read world this week. NaNoWriMo has really been […]

Thanks for all the books: Kindle-delivered diversions

November 7, 2015

NaNoWriMo: stray observations

November 3, 2015

NaNoWriMo – yay or nay?

October 30, 2015

I realise that with this post I’ve become one of a long list of people blogging about NaNoWriMo. I guess the main […]

Thanks for all the books: those worth rereading

October 25, 2015

Top Ten Tuesday – Bookish Wishes

October 19, 2015

This week’s Broke and Bookish Top Ten Tuesday is all about bookish wishes. I almost don’t want to put a list together […]

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