Genie's Weekly News (1)

Sunday 21 September 2014

Hi everyone and welcome to my weekly blog feature to recap the week with bookish news and what to expect coming up! So without further ado...

*Reading Right Now*

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*Previous Posts*



*Sneak Peek at Next Week*

A dual review for books in the Flora series by Jessica L. Brooks, blog tour for 'The Jewel', and much more including a feature I'm doing with Stephanie from Chasm of Books!


*From The Interwebs*


*Book Haul*



  • Malini by Robert Hillman - This looks like an interesting story based on true events 
  • The Year It All Ended by Kirsty Murray - I am SO EXCITED for this one, plus I love Aussie historical fiction anyway which this book fits right into!
  • Pandora Jones: Deception by Barry Jonsberg - I really enjoyed book one (and it ended on a massive cliffhanger) so I've got high hopes for the sequel
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry - I'm interested in seeing the movie, but I do want to read the book first which I borrowed from the library, and it looks really short
  • Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth - I've been wanting to read something by Kate Forsyth for ages, and this looks like the perfect mix between fairytale and historical fiction - I just got it from the library and I'm loving it so far!


It's been a big week since I've launched my own blog and I just wanted to again say a big THANK YOU to all of you lovely bookworms who have visited so far!


10 comments :

  1. Thanks for the shout out, luv. I need to read A Little Something Different really soon. I meant to read it this week but... no real reading happened, unfortunately.

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    1. No problem Steph :) We all have those time when you simply don't get to read for whatever reason, but hopefully you get to soon!

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  2. Yayyy it's been an awesome first week on the blog :D love it so much. I got Pandora Jones: Deception as well so I'll have to read the first book sometime soon (good old school library had two copies, so I nabbed one of them). A Little Something DIfferent also looks lovely :D

    Bring on week two!

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    1. Glad you think so Emily :) Hope you like Pandora Jones, and A Little Something Different is going well so far!

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  3. The Giver is an awesome old classic. :) I read it yeeeears ago but I still love it (killer ending. XD) And congrats on your awesome first blogging week. Aaaand you linked to me. N'AWW! YOU'RE SO NICE. ^-^ I really like that cover for A Little Something Different, but I actually have no idea what it's about. I really should look that up, actually....

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    1. I can't wait to start it (and perhaps see the movie too). I'm looking forward to taking on the second week of blogging here and sharing all the bookish things!

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  4. I hope you enjoy A Little Something Different -- I'll be really interested to see what you think of that one, Eugenia. I saw it today but didn't end up getting it; I haven't heard too many things about it, so I think I'll wait for some more opinions. :) Congrats for an awesome first week on the blog, too. I'm really enjoying reading your posts.

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    1. It's going well so far, so I guess I'll see how it turns out. I'll have a review up this week so you can see what I thought of it in post form :) Thanks so much for all your comments Kara, it's so nice to hear that people are liking my blog!

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  5. I've been wanting to read Bitter Greens forever, hope you enjoy it. Great book haul, I'm really excited to read The Year It All Ended as well. And I'd love to read the Giver soon, I've heard the movie is really good. Congrats on your first week solo blogging.

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    1. I'm about halfway through it at the moment and loving it so far! I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing The Giver soon once I've read the book (which looks to be a quick read). Thanks for stopping by Rochelle :)

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