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TheBookJunkie

TheBookJunkie

Joined May 2016

📖 Reading is Dreaming with Your Eyes Open 📖
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Hag-Seed | Margaret Atwood
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really excited to read HAGSEED - a reimagining of my favourite all-time Shakespeare play! Lots of writers seem to be rewriting Shakespeare at the moment and anything by Atwood is extremely promising...

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The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon
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recent buys from a new local independent bookshop down the road - very excited to read these, they've been on my TBR pile for a LONG time!

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Excited to re-read this classic in preparation for a course that I'm teaching in September - remember really enjoying it at university 📖📚📖

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about half way through so far. I don't find reading a play strange as I often read drama as well as teach it... Despite not having the "magic" of the original books, the story is intriguing and various cameos are made from some of my favourite characters from previous books... I bet the stage play itself is insane, so I'm hoping the magic will be felt if I can eventually get myself a ticket! (still so worth reading if you are a Potter fan!!)

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An Autobiography | Agatha Christie
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so I'm really getting into preparing to teach a brand new A-Level Course in Crime Writing and ordering FAR too many books!! 📚📖🕵🏼🔎

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie
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Excited to start this - never read an Agatha Christie book before and I'm sure it will live up to all the hype!

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Read this book in one day. A difficult book to describe but a fascinating insight into the still taboo world of mental illness and trauma written by a mental health nurse. Honest, brutal and fascinating.

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The Art of Being Normal | Lisa Williamson
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A well-written YA read dealing with transgender issues. Read this in a handful of sittings as I couldn't put it down! Really worthwhile insight into an issue that is only just being talked about in the open. Definitely worth reading whether you are a young adult or, like me, a fully grown adult!

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Jane Steele | Lyndsay Faye
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A sensational read and interesting take on one of my favourite novels of all time - beautifully written and was gripped from beginning to end! Definitely recommend!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Atonement | Ian McEwan
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Read this only a few weeks ago and just found out that I'm going to be teaching it to my A-Level students in a few weeks' time! Very excited, have wanted to read this book for a while and thoroughly enjoyed it - beautifully written and the ending was so interestingly thought out ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

CAGirlReading I loved this book and quite honestly everything I've read by Ian McEwan. I just read A Child in Time, on older book of his which was fabulous as well! 9y
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The Fall | Albert Camus
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Just about to start The Fall - read The Outsider a couple of years ago and found it fascinating 📖📖

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Just about to start this - so few books around about this illness, as a child brought up by a bipolar mother, I am extremely curious to see this take from the perspective of a child with the illness - hoping it will help me to understand it a little better...

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Shtum | Jem Lester
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One of those books that brings out a range of emotions and reactions - sadness, anger and laughter - which is very hard to achieve in just over 300 pages - highly recommend, an interesting take on living with autism from someone who knows what they are talking about ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️