Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Shift | Em Bailey | Review
"As mousy Miranda edges her way into the popular group, right up to the side of queen bee Katie – and pushes the others right out – only Olive seems to notice that something strange is...
Monday, 26 November 2012
Delirium | Lauren Oliver | Review
Delrirum by Lauren Oliver was a novel that has been buzzed about this year by everyone I came across on the Internet, so when my lovely Blogger's Bookshelf co-founder Erin (as well...
Sunday, 25 November 2012
The Help | Kathryn Stockett | Review
“You is kind, you is smart, you is important.” The Help is set in 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi. The story is told from three different people’s points of view. Aibileen is looking...
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Group Collaboration | Our Favourite Genres
For our first group collaboration here at Blogger's Bookshelf we asked you, our readers and contributors, to tell us about your favourite book genres and to recommend us some titles....
Friday, 23 November 2012
The Lying Game | Sara Shepard | Review
'At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.' - Sara Shepard, The Lying Game. The Lying Game was the first Sara...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Guest Review | A Discovery of Witches | Deborah Harkness
Image from Goodreads If I had to encapsulate my feelings while I was reading ADiscovery of Witches in one word, that word would be embarrassment. I felt a cringing,...
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Review
“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If...
Monday, 19 November 2012
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Review
‘I knew who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.’ This quote popped up somewhere on my radar years before I knew...
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Remember Me? | Sophie Kinsella | Review
“Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.” source Sophie Kinsella is best known for her Confessions of a Shopaholic series. I’m here, however, to tell you about one of...
Friday, 16 November 2012
The Casual Vacancy | J.K Rowling | Review
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey,...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Guest Review | Her Fearful Symmetry | Audrey Niffenegger
Book Cover image from Goodreads Hey everyone! My name is Anjali, and I blog over at This Splendid Shambles. I’m really excited to be guest posting today, and to...
Monday, 12 November 2012
Awaken | Katie Kacvinsky | Reviewed by Ria
Hey guys and welcome to our second round from the Blogger's Bookshelf regular reviewers, this week you'll also see a couple of our guest reviewers creeping into the posting schedule...
Sunday, 11 November 2012
Before I Die | Jenny Downham | Review
Before I Die, tells the story of a sixteen year old girl called Tessa, who has leukemia. From the start of the book, we know that the condition is terminal as she has refused to...
Friday, 9 November 2012
Looking for Alaska | John Green | Review
'So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.' Looking for Alaska, being, rather...
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Feed | Mira Grant | Reviewed by Niina
I should probably start this review with saying this; I have a pretty unhealthy relationship with zombies. Okay, maybe not zombies, but zombie stories. A lot of people even find...
Monday, 5 November 2012
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | Reviewed by Laura
This was not a book that started off on my ‘to-read’ list, but I am one of those people that have to read the book before watching the film. So when I saw the trailer and wanted...
Sunday, 4 November 2012
The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | Review
The Fault in Our Stars is written by John Green and is probably one of my most favourite books ever. The hype surrounding the book's release was incredible; it was hard not...
Friday, 2 November 2012
Feature | His Dark Materials Trilogy | Philip Pullman
"The first volume is set in a world like ours, but different in many ways. The second volume is set partly in the world we know. The third moves between many worlds. In...
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