Hi pretty ladies,
How are you holding up? We are on the downward slope to Friday and what will hopefully be a sunny weekend. (Here's hoping).
So, I have gathered quite a few lovely followers over the last few months (Hi everyone!) and I would like to call on you all for a little bit of help. It's bloggers privilege after all.
I'll get straight to it..I love books, I love buying books, I love owning books, for many years I enjoyed studying books, and for many years after that I enjoyed being surrounded by books as part of my job in a library. Mostly, I love lining books up on shelves and admiring the spines standing side by side, it's very pleasing.
The problem is, I am a fussy reader and I struggle to find books that I enjoy. I need a book to grab me and keep me wanting to come back and I very rarely find a book like this. That's where you come in. You seem like a well read bunch, the literary sort that enjoy the pleasure of reading anything from Adele Parks to Jane Austen. I admire that.
So perhaps you can help a blogger out? Do you have a gem of a book that you have been holding onto that you want the world to know about? Share it with me, I'd love to hear about it.
Most of my favourite books are written in the first person perspective with female protagonists. I especially love books in diary or letter format, I enjoy a good love story but I am not normally one for 'Chick Lit' I'm afraid. I enjoy sad stories, darker stories, they don't need to be light and fluffy. I appreciate good writing. I find bad writing very jarring and I will give up on a book very quickly if the writing annoys me (It's the curse of studying creative writing..you learn about the worst literary faux pas and then you can't unlearn them). Perhaps a better way to explain my tastes is to say that my most loved (non classic) books are 'One Day', 'The Lovely Bones', 'The death and life of Charlie St Cloud' and 'Dash and Lily's book of dares'. These books have kept me reading until the very last word and then left me wanting to read them again and again or write something equally amazing. So do with that information what you will.
And with that, the challenge is set readers, can you find me something to read? I will consider anything, the field is wide open...apart from the 'Fifty shades' trilogy, please don't tell me to read that!
I look forward to hearing your recommendations.
How are you holding up? We are on the downward slope to Friday and what will hopefully be a sunny weekend. (Here's hoping).
So, I have gathered quite a few lovely followers over the last few months (Hi everyone!) and I would like to call on you all for a little bit of help. It's bloggers privilege after all.
I'll get straight to it..I love books, I love buying books, I love owning books, for many years I enjoyed studying books, and for many years after that I enjoyed being surrounded by books as part of my job in a library. Mostly, I love lining books up on shelves and admiring the spines standing side by side, it's very pleasing.
The problem is, I am a fussy reader and I struggle to find books that I enjoy. I need a book to grab me and keep me wanting to come back and I very rarely find a book like this. That's where you come in. You seem like a well read bunch, the literary sort that enjoy the pleasure of reading anything from Adele Parks to Jane Austen. I admire that.
So perhaps you can help a blogger out? Do you have a gem of a book that you have been holding onto that you want the world to know about? Share it with me, I'd love to hear about it.
Most of my favourite books are written in the first person perspective with female protagonists. I especially love books in diary or letter format, I enjoy a good love story but I am not normally one for 'Chick Lit' I'm afraid. I enjoy sad stories, darker stories, they don't need to be light and fluffy. I appreciate good writing. I find bad writing very jarring and I will give up on a book very quickly if the writing annoys me (It's the curse of studying creative writing..you learn about the worst literary faux pas and then you can't unlearn them). Perhaps a better way to explain my tastes is to say that my most loved (non classic) books are 'One Day', 'The Lovely Bones', 'The death and life of Charlie St Cloud' and 'Dash and Lily's book of dares'. These books have kept me reading until the very last word and then left me wanting to read them again and again or write something equally amazing. So do with that information what you will.
And with that, the challenge is set readers, can you find me something to read? I will consider anything, the field is wide open...apart from the 'Fifty shades' trilogy, please don't tell me to read that!
I look forward to hearing your recommendations.
With love,
Lexie
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