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  • Review – Red Dog by Willem Anker (translated by Michiel W. Heyns)
  • Review – Concerto by Hannah Fielding
  • Review – The Things I Know by Amanda Prowse
  • Review – Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer
  • Q&A with Paullina Simons #TheTigerCatcher

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📝What are you currently reading? — I have had a busy but very wonderful week (as you can see from my post yesterday 😍)! Here are some of the books I received the past few days! They all sound so amazing and I can’t believe I have the ARC for Ann Patchett’s latest upcoming book The Dutch House 😱😱😱 All details will be posted tomorrow!❤️ — #thehidinggame #thedutchhouse #thetricktotime #Razia #therabbitgirl #aftertheflood #mytbr #bookstack #booksofig #readersofig
Today will stay with me forever. — I read The Bronze Horseman series by @paullinasimons in March 2016 and that series has literally changed my life. My reading taste and my perspective to a lot of things. I would never have imagined meeting Paullina one day. It just felt like an impossible dream. BUT TODAY I MET HER!!! We spent the morning walking around Nottinghill and just talked. We had lunch together and we talked. I feel like I have known her forever! — I didn’t think I could love her more than I already did. But I love her even more. What an amazing human being. I love her with all my heart, truly. — Thank you so much Paullina for EVERYTHING. Your words, your books, your creative mind. You have changed lives through the stories you told and the characters you created. Thank you for giving us so much. — I truly believe books do change life and authors do have magic.
#blogtour #bookreview The Things I Know by @mrsamandaprowse — Have I mentioned that I am a romantic at heart? I love everything about this story! The main character Thomasina ‘Hitch’ Waycott was born a bit differently; a deform lip and a crooked limb, all she ever wanted was to get out of their family farm and experience the world; all she ever wanted was to love someone and has someone love her back unconditionally. And here we were introduced the other main character Grayson Potts. Love blossomed between them despite the physical appearances. I couldn’t get enough of this book! 💞💞💞 Amanda Prowse has created such lovable characters that I don’t want this story to ever end! It is such a heart warming and endearing read. Thomasina, what a lovely and delightful character. Despite the physical difficulties, she has maintained a pure and spirited heart. At times I feel injustice for Thomasina for everything she has endured. These will for sure pull at your heartstring. I just love her to bits. I wish the best for her and I am rooting for her the whole way through. Grayson is the perfect man and other half for her (and I am secretly in love with Grayson myself too!). 💞💞💞 love Amanda Prowse’s writing and the way the story is told. She has effortlessly created these charming characters and brought them to life. These characters and their stories have charmed their way into my heart. I really enjoyed this book! 💞💞💞 Thank you so much Ellen and @ed.pr for gifting me this copy to review! The Things I Know, published on 11 June by Lake Union. 💞💞💞 #thethingsiknow #lovestorys #bloggersofinstagram #bookbloggers #booksofig #readersofig
📝What’s your last non-fiction read? — Period Power by Maisie Hill is the non fiction I am reading at the moment. I wish this book existed when I first started my period!!! It is so informative and looking back a lot of things make sense now! It has done a fantastic job “normalising” period as a topic and it makes you feel comfortable and empower to talk about it. I have learnt so much about menstrual circle. I honestly think this book should be mandatory for all young girl to read. — So glad I am reading this now. Still not too late! Thank you so much @alicegrhm for sending me this copy to read! @bloomsburypublishing — #nonfiction #periodpower #nonfictionreads #nonfiction2019 #readersofig #readingnonfiction
AD | #blogtour #bookreview Rough Magic by @larafriarfarmer — Today is my stop on the Instagram tour for Rough Magic. An inspirational memoir of her extraordinary journey of entering and winning the world’s toughest and longest horse race at the age of 19! 🐎🐎🐎 In summer 2016, on my flight from London to Beijing, we flew over Magnolia on the way. At the time I was utterly stunned by the sheer beauty of the magnificent landscape. I wondered how I could ever describe this breathtaking view so others could understand how truly spectacular Magnolia was. Now, I know. Lara did it in Rough Magic. 🐎🐎🐎 Rough Magic is the recount of her experience of not only entering the world’s toughest horse race, Mongol Derby, at only 19, but also winning it as the youngest and first female contestant in history. The race was over 1000km long and was finished with 25 horses. I was so surprised and shocked to find out that Lara entered this race on a whim, she was underprepared to say the least. To have won this race was nothing short of awe-inspiring. 🐎🐎🐎 Rough Magic is very adventurous, evocative, inspirational and at times incredibly moving. It is surprisingly a very fast read. What I love most about this book / memoir is that it sometimes doesn’t feel like a memoir. It reads so lyrical and poetic. It feels like Lara has been an author all her life. The descriptions of the landscape is majestic; the retelling of her interactions with her competitors and the local residents is comforting and entertaining; the parts of her relationships with her horses are incredibly moving. The whole book, to me, read so romantically. It has witty and beautiful prose. 🐎🐎🐎 I really enjoyed it! I wish Lara all the best in her future adventures and books (I think she is so very good at it!) 🐎🐎🐎 Thank you so much Bishneen and @eburybooks for providing me with this beautiful copy to review. #roughmagicinstagramtour #mongolderby #horseracing #booksabouthorses
📝How do you decide which books to bring with you for vacation? — I have so far packed 5 big suitcases, two carry ons, one pushchair, one car seat and one nappy bag 😂 And most importantly I have preliminarily decided to bring this stack of books with me. I am sure I will add more and I am sure I will overpack it, but I will not know what I am in the mood for so better be well prepared 😂 — I am really looking forward reading all these books. Have you seen any that you would like to read or have read already? — #holidayreads #vacationreading #bookstobringonvacation #mytbr #booksofig #readersofig #bookstack #bookspine

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