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Awards

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH…I COULD ACTUALLY CRY. 

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  • One Lovely Blog Award 1 
  • The Liebster Award 1,2,3
  • The Liebster Award 4 
  • The Creative Blogger Award 1 
  • The Versatile Blogger Award 1,2,3,4
  • The Versatile Blogger Award 1 
  • The Blogger Recognition Award 1 and 2 
  • The Sunshine Blogger Award 1 and 2 

 

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...and that’s how a book mail is done! 👏🏻✨ I am so impressed by this package by @hqstories! So clever to include the ‘tell us what you think’ cards throughout the book, I will definitely be filling them out. . . . . . . . BLURB: . THE TWINS ARE CRYING. THE TWINS ARE HUNGRY. LAUREN IS CRYING. LAUREN IS EXHAUSTED. Behind the hospital curtain, someone is waiting . . . Lauren is alone on the maternity ward with her new-born twins when a terrifying encounter in the middle of the night leaves her convinced someone is trying to steal her children. Lauren, desperate with fear, locks herself and her sons in the bathroom until the police arrive to investigate. When DS Joanna Harper picks up the list of overnight incidents that have been reported, she expects the usual calls from drunks and wrong numbers. But then a report of an attempted abduction catches her eye. The only thing is that it was flagged as a false alarm just fifteen minutes later. Harper's superior officer tells her there's no case here, but Harper can’t let it go so she visits the hospital anyway. There's nothing on the CCTV. No one believes this woman was ever there. And yet, Lauren claims that she keeps seeing the woman and that her babies are in danger, and soon Harper is sucked into Lauren's spiral of fear. But how far will they go to save children who may not even be in danger? . . . #booksofinstagram #bibliophile #book #bookstagrammers #booksofig #bookstagramit #LittleDarlingsBook #NotMyBaby #books #reader #reading #book #bookblogger #bookblogging #books
Thank you @4thestatebooks! ✨ . . . . A gripping and heartwrenching novel of damage and survival, grief and unexpected solace, Marilyn and Me is a fascinating – and timely – insight into an extraordinary time and place. How do you translate the present, when you can't let go of the past? It is the winter of 1954 and in the rubble-strewn aftermath of the Korean war Marilyn Monroe has come to Seoul to perform to the US soldiers stationed there. Incongruous in her silk dress and flawless makeup, she sings of seduction and love, dazzling battle-scarred Americans and Koreans alike. Alice, the woman chosen to be Marilyn’s translator, was once Kim Ae-sun, before her name was stolen from her – along with so much else – by the war. With her prematurely grey hair, her fraying lace gloves and the memories that will engulf her if she lets them, Alice works as a typist for the US military. It is a job that has enabled her to survive, and to forget. As they travel across the country, over the four days of Marilyn’s tour, the two women begin to form an unlikely friendship. But when Alice becomes embroiled in a sting operation involving the entrapment of a Communist spy she is forced to confront the past she has been trying so hard to escape. . . . . . #booksofinstagram #book #bookstagrammers #booksofig #booksofinsta #instagram #books #bibliophile #reader #reading #publishing #books
Next on the list is We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet. . . . . . . . . . . December, 1940. As German bombs fall on Southampton, the city’s residents flee to the surrounding villages. In Upton village, amid the chaos, newly-married Ellen Parr finds a girl sleeping, unclaimed at the back of an empty bus. Five-year-old Pamela, it seems, is entirely alone. Ellen has always believed she does not want children, but when she takes Pamela into her home the child cracks open the past Ellen thought she had escaped and the future she had dreamed for herself. As the war rages on, love grows where it was least expected, surprising them all. But with the end of the fighting comes the realization that Pamela was never theirs to keep… For anyone who loved All the Light we Cannot See and The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, We Must Be Brave is a luminous novel about the ways we can rescue one another, and the many different forms that courage can take. . . . . . #wemustbebrave #franceliardet #book #bookstagrammers #dollyalderton #bookshelf #booksofig #booksofinsta #booksofinstagramfeature #booksofinstagram #reader #bookblogger #bookreviewer #bookstagrammers
Finally got around to picking up this wonderful book today. Thank you @hqstories for sending to me! ✨ . . . Book description: . Jessica Wood is an aspiring photographer living in London. She’s had her heart broken, and her friends have pieced it back together again. . But across the neon lights of Soho, in the smell of alcohol and cigarette smoke, on every night bus, in every song, every time she tries to forget: she remembers him. . Now, in a battle between the past and the future, choosing between having a life and making a living, finding her feet or spreading her wings, Jessica must ask herself: who is she really living for? Love and Other Things to Live For is an ode to modern girls and triumph over heartbreak, perfect for fans of Holly Bourne and Dolly Alderton. . . . . . . #bibliophile #bookstagrammers #bookstagram #bookshelf #love #louiseleverett #4thestate #harpercollins #books #reading #reader #bookstagrammers #book #dollyalderton #books #bookshelf
On Tuesday I also had the pleasure of listening to @sofiehagendk Talk candidly about her book. I have admired Sofie as a comedian for a while now and I cannot wait to start this book! ✨ . . . Book description: ‘I am a fat person and I love my body. I feel lucky to be able to say that. It has taken a lot of work and a lot of time to get here. I often meet people who are incredibly puzzled that I can love this body. Taking the world into account – how we are taught to see bodies and judge bodies – I understand the confusion. But I am quite sure I can explain it. I want to tell you what I have learned and how I got here.’ In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are rife. From shame and sex to airplane seats, love and getting stuck in public toilets, Sofie conquered a negative relationship with her body and provides practical tips for readers to do the same – drawing wisdom from other Fat Liberation champions along the way. Part-memoir, part-social commentary, Happy Fat is a funny, angry and impassioned look at how taking up space in a culture that is desperate to reduce you can be radical, emboldening and life-changing. . . . . . #bookstagrammers #sofiehagen #happyfat #bookstagram #bibliophile #reader #books #bookstagram #reading #bookshelf #books #bibliophile #bookshelf #books
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY! ✨‼️ Here is a shout out to women who have changed my life with their writing. They have inspired me personally and influenced me academically. . . . . . . . . . #happyinternationalwomensday #internationalwomensday #internationalwomensday2019 #books #writers #authors #women #dollyalderton #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookstagrammers #sylviaplath #writer #reader #plath #poems #sylviaplathquote #inwd #inwd2019
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