Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding

Hi again, I told you a new review would be up shortly. This time I review "Bridget Jones:The Edge of Reason"

This book is brilliantly written, witty and funny. I loved the first book and the second was just as good, funnier and Bridget is back with more trials and tribulations of living her urban lifestyle in London. As always she has her friends Sharon (Shazzer) and Jude by her side and this time, she takes on world travel. As they journey to places unknown (I know where they're going I just want it to be a surprise) and meet knew people they are bound to have an adventure or two. Will Jude marry Vile Richard? What has happened to Sharon and Simon? What's going on with Mark and Bridget? Read on to find out (not read on here, read the book, sillies, I'm not going to give it all away, although do, by all means, read on here if you want to read the review and not just the summary)

This book, much like the first one is witty, poignant and funny and continues to strike a chord with people everywhere. It's a diary of a year in her life and it's absolutely wonderful. Read it, read it, read it! Fielding's writing is wonderful, it carries you into Bridget's life on a fast moving (sometimes out of control) train but everything evens out by December.

Well that's all for today folks, I told you there would be 2 reviews today, so far. Until next time keep reading, writing and for heaven's sake comment! (or tweet me) but tell me what you think!

See you next time!

Shakespeare's Champion by Charlaine Harris

Hey All I'm finally back!

I'm not quite through the stack of library books but they have to be returned (doing that tomorrow (or, as such, later today)) but I finally finished reading Shakespeare's Champion by Charlaine Harris.

This is the second book in the Lily Bard mystery series and this time finds her in a bit of a spot.

Between mysterious strangers and threats and a mysterious ring she's really got her hands full this time. But when she's caught between her old friend (and once beau) Claude Friedrich, Shakespeare's chief of police and a mysterious stranger who uses a false name and seems to have come to Shakespeare on the winds of the past she manages to get in way over her head. But you know our heroine, never one to back down from a fight. But when the situation escalates and Lily is caught up in it, what will happen? Who knows, read the book to find out.

Now this book was very good, and especially if you read the first one I would strongly suggest that you continue the series. However there are mature themes,think, To Kill a Mockingbird themes. I loved it. Charlaine Harris is a wonderful author and she really has a way with words that weaves you in to the background of little town Shakespeare.

Well, short review today folks but I will be posting another one very shortly. as always please comment or Tweet me about what you thought or with book recommendations. Until next time keep reading!

Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

The epic sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone and the second book in the trilogy this book with grip you from beginning to end on a roller-coaster ride of action and emotion, magic and wonder that will leave you wanting more.

Hi again readers I'm back! This time I review Days of Blood and Starlight, the sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone. This book once again follows Karou on her journey through life. This time the resurrectionist in a Kasbah in Morocco creating monsters for a man as monstrous as can be. Will Karou ever be able to leave, flee, will her friends find her? Will she ever see her beloved Akiva again? Read on to find out.

This book was gripping from beginning to end, I didn't want to put it down. The journey was wonderful, if a little bloody at times but what can you expect from battles and a book titled "Days of Blood and Starlight"? It was a great read though and I would definitely recommend it to everyone. obviously read "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" first but if you have, and you liked it? read this one. (The third one's out too I just haven't read it yet).

Well folks, short review today, I'm working at BluesFest this weekend so I might not have too much time to read for the next 4 days but I will definitely try to keep up with it. I can't believe it's August already. If you hadn't already guessed my summer reading list will carry on into the school year and I might have a hope of finishing it. (I'm slowly buying copies of the books I wanted to read and had borrowed from the library, some of them are overdue and they really need to be returned so buying them, especially if I wanted to read them more than once, seemed the easiest option.)

As always I'm open to suggestions in comments or over Twitter and feel free to comment with what you think! As always keep reading and I'll see you next time!

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Hey all I'm back, I just finished reading "Practical Magic" a book by Alice Hoffman. Now, some of you might recall that this is also a movie starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, it's usually on around Halloween. As always with these things the book differs from the movie in some aspects but mostly the story remains the same.

Well how did I come to know that "Practical Magic" wasn't just a movie? Funny story, I was looking for the movie in my local library database, they didn't have the movie but they had the book. This book will captivate you from beginning to end, it's almost...bewitching. The story is wonderful and captivating and absolutely amazing...I can almost hear you saying "Enough with the praise, and the personal anecdotes what's it about?

Well, it's about two sisters, Sally and Gillian Owens who go to live with their aunts after their parents die. The Aunts (Aunt Frances and Aunt Bridget (everyone calls her Jet)) live in Massachusetts in an old house on Magnolia Crescent. The Owens women have lived there for generations and by all accounts Gillian and Sally had a pretty good life living with the Aunts on Magnolia Crescent. But the Aunts were always considered a little weird by everyone in the neighbourhood. everyone was convinced that they were witches. Sally and Gillian had to deal with that all through school, but Gillian runs away with her then boyfriend Jimmy and Sally stays behind, she eventually moves to a different town where nobody knows her or thinks she's a witch and she gets married and has two children. One day tragedy strikes however, shattering her world, not long after that Gillian comes back into her life bringing a whole host of trouble that Sally neither wanted nor expected. Will they be able to work through their issues and their problems? Or will Gillian's past come back to haunt them and hang over them forever? Read on and find out.

As I said, it's a great read, absolutely worth reading, worth savouring. It's magical and captivating and I would definitely recommend that you read it, especially if you're a fan of the movie.

That's all for today folks, I have to go through my library books and figure out which ones to return (I just ordered, like, 6 books online from one of the local bookstores and then I went out and bought more and most of the books I bought were ones I'd borrowed from the library (some are, admittedly, overdue (I know, I have to go return them tomorrow)) But I figured, if I was going to read them anyway I might as well buy them (not all at once obviously) especially if it sounded like, or was, something that I might like to read again *cough* Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell.

As always feel free to leave books for me to read in the comments or suggest them to me via Twitter. See you next time, until then, read on book lovers!