February Purchases

1) The Jungle Book
2)H for Hawk
3) Fatty Puffs and Thinnyfirs
4) A Short History of Everything At Home

On Screen: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Watched this few weeks ago...it was good but I'm glad I didn't bother reading the book.

On Screen: War and Peace

Watched the last episode of this mini-series on BBC last week...it was brilliant and made me want to read the book despite it being the lengthiest novel.

Review: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

This book is so bad, so bad, so bad that you can't even imagine. I will only recommend it to someone I really dislike. A heroine with the super-power of killing people by just thinking of them as dead? Seriously? I'm sure the Young Adult readers deserve a little better than this book! After the misfortune of buying and reading the first 100 pages of this book I don't think I'm ever going to read American YA books no matter how charming the book-cover is or how much the blurb is luring...:(

Waterstones Spring Book Club

Quote of the Month

Review: The Invisible Library

A perfect blend of steampunk mystery adventure and humour eloquently authored by Genevieve Cogman in her fascinating debut novel ' The Invisible Library '. Can't wait to read the second book in the series....highly recommended to all readers.

Children's Book of the Month

                                            We're Going On A Bear Hunt
                                                    by Michael Rosen

Come along on a bear hunt in this award-winning classic from Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury.  We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to catch a big one.Will you come too? For more than twenty-five years readers have been swishy swashing and splash sploshing through this award-winning favorite. Join in the fun!

Book of the Month

                                                           Brave New World
                                                                    by Aldous Huxley

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his
distress...

Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

On Screen: The 5th Wave

I haven't read the book and thank God for that....lol. Okay the movie wasn't terrible, in fact, it was entertaining...but the plot had some big holes with typical American YA cheesiness so I guess reading the book would've been a waste of time. I'll be waiting for the next movie though.

Review: The Dream Snatcher

It was an okayish read...some parts felt really cozy and some parts were pretty graphic (for a children's book). There's second book come out but I won't be reading it because I know what's going to happen next. (lol)  My rating for this book: 2.5 out of 5.

February Book Releases

Children+Adventure

Historical Fiction+British