Blue Archipelago

Admit One: A Journey Into Film - buy this book
Rating
3.5 stars - an amusing tale and a reminder of childhood dreams
Description
If you have ever truly loved a film, you will surely find yourself within these pages. Set in Croydon, South London, in the 1980s, ADMIT ONE details how self-deprecating writer Emmett James escaped from the [...]

March: A Love Story in a Time of War - Buy this book
Rating
5 stars - a powerful and moving experience
Description
As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage [...]

26a - buy this book
Rating
4 stars - a beautifully written book
Description
A novel of twoness, oneness, growing-up and growing apart
Why did you read this book?
I can’t remember how I came across this book to be honest - it was sometime last year that I added [...]

Nineteen Minutes - Buy this book
Rating
5 stars - Picoult at her best
Description - from jodipicoult.com
In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that [...]

A Quiet Belief in Angels - Buy this book
Rating
3 stars - a fantastic start but a disappointing middle
Description - from lovereading.co.uk
Joseph Vaughan’s life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted [...]

To Kill a Mockingbird - Buy this book
Rating
5 stars - everyone needs to read this book
Description - from Amazon

Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus–three years punctuated by the [...]

Good Harbor - Buy this book
Rating
4 stars - an ejoyable read
Description from Amazon
From the bestselling author of THE RED TENT come a contemporary novel that explores the burden of secrets, the weight of grief and the healing power of female friendship When Kathleen meets Joyce, each woman has come to a turning point in her [...]

Secrets of a Family Album - Buy this book
Rating
5 stars - a book so comfortable you’ll want to read it more than once
Description - from Amazon
Compulsively neat, obsessively organised, Lily is a writer who writes about writers. When she is asked to contribute to a book on lost icons, she visits Rita Boothe - photographer, [...]

I think I’m becoming addicted to challenges! *lol* Spring Reading Thing 2008 has just been launched over at Callapidder Days - and the challenge is to get through a number of books between March 20 and June 19 - the number and the type of book is entirely up to the participants. All you have [...]