News!

HI!

Sorry we've been away. We've been really busy first with exams and heavy celebrating, then came the hunt for jobs and working over the summer to pay off "the book debt". Unfortunately these jobs have left us too knackered to even contemplate looking at our bookshelves and then talk about them.

Although on a day off last week Beth did reorganise her shelves a bit...

The "above the bed" shelfie. Her other bookcase is too messy to contemplate showing you. That and the piles and boxes of books around the room wouldn't be great either as they're currently drowning in clothes...

However! We are back yesterday we kicked off the Book Club, with Burial Rites which is available to buy here, here and all other good book retailers. So get reading and we look forward to your thoughts on it :)

In other news, Beth is going to meet the Author of the Throne of Glass series tomorrow, The first 2 of which she reviewed in April, you can read that here too. She's absurdly excited and has decided that she'll post a review of the collection of Prequel novellas The Assassins Blade later on today.

Hannah is still working at Carnegie Books, and was last heard being driven nuts by orthographically challenged authors. She has been doing reading for pleasure too and if you ask her very nicely may even tell you what she thought of Robert *coughJKRowlingcough* Galbraith's efforts.

Right.
That's all the news there is for now!
Lots of love,
Beth and Brown xx

Project Bookclub.

So, yeah, kinda been busy getting jobs and stuff so whilst there are like 20 odd drafts on the blog we haven't actually published anything for awhile. Whoopsie! Anyway! We're pleased to announce this months book for book club, and renew our promise to be more proactive blog wise!

So this months book is:

Burial Rites! 

Hannah Kent's debut ain't exactly what you'd term cheery but it is excellent and it makes you think! 

To quickly summarise, the story is the fictionalised account of the last days of Agnes Magnusdottír, the last woman and person in general to be executed in Iceland, way back in 1829. 

The story is her back story, the crime for which is she is to be executed and the days leading up to it. As you've probably guess it's not exactly as it appears on the surface. 

Any way, the book is available from all good retails and as an ebook. 

My (Beth's) review will be available at the end of next week. In the meantime however get reading and chatting on the Facebook page or the comments below, eventually we'll figure out how to get a forum page up on here :)

Much love for now,

Beth and Brown. X