Good evening everyone I thought I’d do a little reading update tonight:
❤️Last – The Kingdom Of Sweets by Erika Johansen
I’ve just finished The Kingdom Of Sweets and absolutely loved it! Review coming soon but I highly recommend.
🧡Now- Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
I received a copy of Whale Fall yesterday and immediately started reading it. I’m really enjoying it so far and I’m finding it fascinating to learn more about life on the remote island. It’s reminding me a bit of The Last Summer by Karen Swan which I loved too.
💛Next- The Escape by Ruth Kelly
I’m the going to read The Escape for my spot on the blog tour. I loved her last book so I’m very excited to read this one.
Huge thanks to the tagged publishers for my copy of these books.
Good morning everyone and happy Sunday. Here’s my attempt at spelling December in books!
D- DEAD And Scone E- EVERY Summer After C- CHAIN Gang All Stars E- The Book EATERS M- The MIDNIGHT News B- BELLADONNA E- EVERYONE Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead R- Fair ROSALINE
I’ve tried to use different books for the E & R this month as I think I’ve used Evil Eye For the last two months.
I’m working today which should be fun as it’s getting busy at the shop. We’re then hopefully putting our tree up which will be lovely and then watch the kids favourite Christmas film Home Alone.
Good morning everyone and happy Saturday! I thought I’d start a challenge today featuring books that I’ve bought after reading and loving another book.
I recently read and reviewed You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here by Dr Benji Waterhouse which you can read on my grid. I found it fascinating to learn more about psychiatry and the mental health problems people can have.
Therefore when I saw The Devil You Know: Encounters In Forensic Psychiatry by Dr Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne at the shop I was immediately intrigued. This book follows Dr Gwen Adshead as she treats criminals in her role as a forensic psychiatrist and discusses whether rehabilitation rather than revenge would be better.
It sounds fascinating and I’m very excited to read it soon.
I’ve tagged a few people on Instagram who might want to join in but, as always, no pressure.
What are your Saturday plans?
You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here by Dr Benji Waterhouse
A woman with bipolar flies from America in a wedding dress to marry Harry Styles. A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronavirus. A depressed psychiatrist hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.
Most of the characters in this book are his patients. Some of them are family. One of them is him.
Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality.
Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to people’s messy lives really within medical school textbooks? And how can vulnerable patients receive the care they need when psychiatry lacks staff, hospital beds and any actual cures?
You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here explores these complicated questions from both sides of the doctor’s desk.
This is the perfect read for fans of This Is Going to Hurt, Unnatural Causes and The Prison Doctor.
The Devil You Know: Encounters In Forensic Psychiatry by Dr Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN & IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
A perspective-shattering work into the minds of violent criminals that reveals profound consequences for human nature and society at large.
Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrists. She treats serial killers, arsonists, stalkers, gang members and other individuals who are usually labelled ‘monsters’. Whatever their crime, she listens to their stories and helps them to better understand their terrible acts of violence. Here Adshead invites the reader to step with her into the room to meet twelve patients and discover how minds can change. These men and women are revealed in all their complexity and shared humanity. Their stories make a powerful case for rehabilitation over revenge, compassion over condemnation. The Devil You Know will challenge everything you thought you knew about human nature.
Good evening everyone I was lucky enough to get a copy of this fabulous looking proof recently. I love a thriller, especially one involving a character with a shady past so I love the sound of this one!
Huge thanks to @bethwright26 and @littlebrownbookgroup_uk for my copy of this book.
Out 06th February 2024.
Book Synopsis:
Nine years ago, Charlie Colbert’s life changed for ever.
On Christmas Eve, as the snow fell, her elite graduate school was the site of a chilling attack. Several of her classmates died. Charlie survived.
Years later, Charlie has the life she always wanted at her fingertips: she’s editor-in-chief of a major magazine and engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry.
But when a film adaptation of that fateful night goes into production, Charlie’s dark past threatens to crash into her shiny present.
Charlie was named a ‘witness’ in the police reports. Yet she knows she was much more than that.
The truth about that night will shatter everything she’s worked for. Just how far will she go to protect it?
About The Author:
Jenny Hollander is a writer and editor from London. A graduate of Leeds University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, her work has been published in ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, and more. She spent ten years in New York, where she worked as a senior editor for Bustle and the deputy editor at Marie Claire. Now the digital director for Marie Claire, she lives in London with her husband and their rescue dog, Captain. She’s a fierce advocate for dyspraxia, which she was diagnosed with when she was nine.
Good morning everyone and happy Friday. It’s a new month and it’s finally December!
Here are some of the books I’d like to read this month:
❤️That Festive Feeling by Heidi Swain
🧡A December To Remember by Jenny Bayliss
💛Who Killed Father Christmas (various)
💚A Murder On The Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict
💙The Christmas Wish by Lesley Kelk
🩵Clairmont by Lesley McDowell
💜Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook
🩷 Piglet by Lottie Hazel
🤎The Guest by Nita Prose
🖤 Good Material by Dolly Alberton
🩶Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
🤍The Square Of Sevens by Laura Shepherd -Robinson
💟The Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict
💕The 12 Days Of Murder by Andreina Cordani
I’m a bit of a mood reader and with three very excited children I’m definitely not reading all of these- but it’s good to have options! There’s also a book I’m waiting for that I’ll be bumping straight up my list when I get it.
What book are you most looking forward to reading this month?
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