Book Club #1 - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

I had been wanting to start a book club with my friends for a while but like with most things I get super motivated about them at first then lack the get-up-and-go to actually see them through. I had been a part of a book group with some work mates a few years ago and I knew I'd at least have some people willing enough to spend some time nattering about books with me. In July I finally got around to doing one of those potentially cringy "who wants to do this thing with me" Facebook posts, the kind that can become super embarrassing if no one comments on them. To my surprise around 15 to my friends wanted to join me in my bookish endeavour! Such a literary bunch, my friends!

Thus book club 2.0 was born! We had our inaugural meeting this week at Tinderbox on Ingram Street, home of tasty coffee and even tastier cakes! It's such a great space and we managed to bag a great seating area complete with wingtipped chairs, how bookish. I picked our first read which was Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. I choose this book based on the good reviews I had read online and the fact that it was nominated for a few awards including the Guardian first book award and the Bailey's woman's prize for fiction.

Book Review - Severed Heads, Broken Hearts by Robyn Schneider

So I thought I'd do my next post here on the blog as a book review. I'm a librarian by day, so books are a big part of who I am, so I hope you all enjoy this.

Today I'm reviewing Severed Heads, Broken Hearts by Robyn Schneider, which has just been recently re-released under the much better title of The Beginning of Everything.

This book is YA lit and very much aimed at the John Green crowd. So much so that both the quote on the front and the back of the book actually mentions The Fault in our Stars. I was not cynical about this however, a girl has got to get her books sold after all and I don't begrudge anyone a bit of bandwagon jumping.