Monthly Archives: December 2017
Boy, do I love stats – 2017
by Norrie
The end is nigh, my fellow readers, and it’s time to take tally of this year’s accomplishments. No, the apocalypse is not coming, but 2018 is just around the corner. Without further ado, let’s see my year in books. Until this day I don’t know how, but I managed to finish 65 books this year. Before anyone suggest I should get a life, I must say, I do most of my reading during holidays, and at work, in my lunchbreak. […]
Categories: Books, Fluff, Read • Tags: Best book, Books, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Psychological Thriller, Read, Reading, Reading stats, Worst book
The Fifth Doll by Charlie N. Holmberg
by Norrie
The Fifth Doll by Charlie N. Holmberg Genres: Fantasy Published: 25th July, 2017 Goodreads Series: N/A Rating: 4 The bestselling author of The Paper Magician Series transports readers to a darkly whimsical world where strange magic threatens a quiet village that only a courageous woman can save. Matrona lives in an isolated village, where her life is centered on pleasing her parents. She’s diligent in her chores and has agreed to marry a man of their choosing. But a visit […]
Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: Books, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Read, Reading, Review
The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
by Norrie
The Breakdown by B.A. Paris Genres: Psychological Thriller Published: 18th July, 2017 Goodreads Series: N/A Rating: 3.5 Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside—the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle […]
Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: B.A. Paris, Books, Crime, Psychological Thriller, Read, Reading, Review
Book Picks for Next Year
by Norrie
Last time I checked (around 5 minutes ago), I had 658 books on my Goodreads “Want to Read” shelf. With my current reading speed I will need approximately 10 years to go through them, if I don’t add any more. As if…! So unless somehow (sorcery) I rise to the level of some people I follow (& admire) and manage to read over a hundred books a year, I’m in some shit. Grim as it sounds, it has obviously not […]
Categories: Books, Fluff • Tags: Books, Reading, Reading Challenge
Blue Monday by Nicci French
by Norrie
Blue Monday by Nicci French Genres: Thriller, Crime, Mystery Published: 23rd June, 2011 Goodreads Series: Frieda Klein #1 Rating: 2 The stunning first book in a new series of psychological thrillers introducing an unforgettable London psychotherapist Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside […]
Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: Books, Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Read, Reading, Review, Thriller
In the Woods by Tana French
by Norrie
In the Woods by Tana French Genres: Crime, Mystery Published: 17th May, 2007 Goodreads Series: Dublin Murder Squad #1 Rating: 4 A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense. As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one […]
Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: Books, Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Read, Reading, Review
Reading Challenge 2018
by Norrie
I’ve never followed a particular reading challenge before, and always felt it would be too restrictive. I just wanted to read for fun, and not feel pressured into something I might not like, or end up stressing out about something I do for pleasure. Where the hell is the fun in that, right? For the past couple of years I’d been participating in the Good Reads Reading challenge though, but without any specific theme, just by pledging a number of […]
Categories: Books, Reading Challenge • Tags: Books, Reading Challenge
My Sweet Revenge by Jane Fallon
by Norrie
My Sweet Revenge by Jane Fallon Genres: Fiction, Women’s Fiction Published: 12th January, 2017 (Penguin) Goodreads Series: N/A Rating: 3 I want to make my husband fall back in love with me. Let me explain. This isn’t an exercise in 1950s wifeydom. I haven’t been reading articles in old women’s magazines. ‘Twenty ways to keep your man’. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I want him to fall back in love with me so that when I tell him […]
Categories: Books, Read • Tags: Books, Fiction, Jane Fallon, Reading
His Kidnapper’s Shoes by Maggie James
by Norrie
His Kidnapper’s Shoes by Maggie James Genres: Psychological Thriller Published: 1st January, 2013 Goodreads Series: N/A Rating: 2.5 Daniel is my son. He has always been mine. And he always will be. On some level deep inside, Laura Bateman knows something is wrong. That her relationship with her son is not what it should be. That it is based on lies. But bad things have happened to Laura. Things that change a person. Forever. For twenty-six-year-old Daniel, the discovery that […]
Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: Books, Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Read, Reading, Review, Thriller
Dead Certain by Adam Mitzner
by Norrie
Dead Certain by Adam Mitzner Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction Published: 1st June, 2017 (Thomas & Mercer) Goodreads Series: N/A Rating: 3 By day, Ella works as a buttoned-up attorney on some of the city’s most grueling cases. By night, she pursues her passion for singing in the darkest clubs of Manhattan. No one knows her secret, not even Charlotte, the younger sister she practically raised. But it seems she’s not the only one in the family with something to hide. […]
Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: Adam Mitzner, Books, Fiction, Mystery, Read, Reading, Review, Thriller
The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle
by Norrie
The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense Published: 27th December, 2016 Goodreads Series: N/A Rating: 3 Even the perfect marriage has its dark side… Iris and Will’s marriage is as close to perfect as it can be: a large house in a nice Atlanta neighborhood, rewarding careers and the excitement of trying for their first baby. But on the morning Will leaves for a business trip to Orlando, Iris’s happy world comes to an abrupt halt. Another […]
Categories: Books, Read, Review • Tags: Books, Fiction, Read, Reading, Review, Suspense, Thriller
