"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human." - David Bowie. My retro tv
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.
Criminal prodigy, Kaz Brekker has been offered a chance at a deadly heist: break into Ice Court - a military stronghold that has never been breached - and retrieve a hostage whose knowleadge could change Grisha magic forever. To succeed would mean riches beyond Kaz's wildest dreams! but he can't pull it off alone...
Rated:5 stars.
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo.
Kaz Brekker and his crew pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and-badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies and hope. As old rivals and new enemies descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of jurda parem - a dangerous substance capable of altering the very fabric of Grisha magic - Kaz's cunning and his team's fragile loyalties are tested to their limit. A war will be waged within the city's dark and twisting streets - a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the future of magic and the fate of the world.
Rated:4.8 stars.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
With its "light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most perennially popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self. knowledge in a world of strict social rules, where a woman must marry well to survive.
Rated:4.5 stars.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at
night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance.
Rated:5 stars.
Franny and Zooey by J.D Salinger.
Franny and Zooey presents two interconnected stories about the youngest members of the eccentric Glass family. It follows college student Franny's spiritual breakdown during a weekend date, and her sharp-witted brother Zooey's efforts to comfort and ground her in their Manhattan apartment.
Rated:4 stars.
Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
The story follows four women in England around the 1920s who leave their rainy environments to go on holiday in Italy. Mrs. Arbuthnor and Mrs. Wilkins, who attend the same ladies' club, become acquainted after reading a newspaper ad about a small medieval castle on the Mediterranean that was furnished for the month of April. They soon discover they are both struggling with unhappy marriages.
The genuine Lottie Wilkins, has only been married for a few years, she and her husband are rubbing each other the wrong way. Rose Arbuthnot is a very religious lady who does extensive charity work but is married to a man who neglects her, partly because of her disapproval of his work. Lady Caroline Dester is a beautiful lady who's tired of the London sociery and begins to regard her life as empty after the man she loved died in WWI.
Mrs. Fisher is a snobbish lady who knew many Victorian luminaries and regards herself as the one in control of the holiday. The 4 women experience interpersonal rensions but eventually come together at the castle and find beauty surrounding them, rediscovering hope and love.
Rated:4 stars.
Dress Up In You by MissKingBean89
This is a non-magical Marauders AU, Siruis attends a charity rock gig which leads to him meeting Remus, problems then occur. The ships are Jily, Dorlene and Wolfstar, its based of the song Dress up in you by Belle and Sebastian.
Rated:5 stars.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the 'roaring twenties' and a devastating exposé of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansion which lined the Long Island shore of the American seaboard in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, Jay Gatsby and the dark mystery which surrounds him.
Rated:5 stars.
The Perfect Match by Adiba Jaigirdar
Dina is done.She's burn out after years in corporate London and now is working in her family's struggling Bangladeshi restaurant. The last thing she expects is to be roped into coaching a football team of disadvantaged amateur players - or to say yes. Maya is back.She could have had a brilliant career, but it all went...well wrong. Now she's back home, back in her childhood bedroom. Her only escape is agreeing to coach her old secondary school's team.It doesn't take long for them to bump into each other again and for as long as anyone can remember, Dina and Maya were rivals. But will the very game that tore them apart bring them back together?
Rated:5 stars.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and beloved works of fiction in recent years.
Rated:5 stars.
For One Shining Day I Was There
It's a curse, it's a curse to remember. But it's an honour, an honour I swear. For as I mourn all those moments that made me, I remember for one shining day I was there.
Rated:5 stars.
Holes by Louis Sachgar
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rottea-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' deten. tion center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
But there are an awful lot of holes.
It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for some-thing. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inveative and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment-and redemption.
Rated 4 stars.
To The Lighthouse
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.
Rated:4 stars.
Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a quiet Tokyo café that is over one hundred years old, customers can travel back in time. However, they must follow strict rules: they cannot change the present, they must stay in one specific seat, and they must return to the present before their coffee gets cold.
Rated:4.5 stars.
Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a quiet Tokyo café that is over one hundred years old, customers can travel back in time. However, they must follow strict rules: they cannot change the present, they must stay in one specific seat, and they must return to the present before their coffee gets cold.
Rated:5 stars.