Lil

I've only been blogging for a few months, but have always been an avid reader. My kindle app is full of downloads from amazon's free bestsellers list to the point where I've had to ban myself from looking! (I used to check the list at least once a day to make sure I didn't miss any exciting new additions, I think I was genuinely addicted!) Then I discovered NetGalley and the problem started all over again. I wasn't expecting to be accepted to review as many books as I have been, and my feedback to approval ratio is only 5.9%.  The Clean out your e-Reader Challenge gives you the chance to read the books that have been sitting around for months waiting to be read. Click on the picture above to sign up and take on the challenge with me :) Goal: Spring Clean - 5 to 9 eBooks I've looked through my lists, and here are some of the books that I'm hoping to get through:  Deceptive (On the Run #3)  - Sara Rosett (NetGalley) "A picture may be worth a thousand wor...

As a lover of all things F. Scott Fitzgerald, the title of this novella had me hooked. "What would it be like to love like Gatsby loved, to be in thrall to an ideal and to be so faithful to that ideal?' ponders Lucas as he sits in the cinema watching The Great Gatsby. A chance encounter as the film credits roll answers this question for him, and changes his life for good. It is not entirely necessary to have seen/read  The Great Gatsby before reading this, but it would help in order to appreciate the multitude of references to it. Lucas isn't strictly Gatsby - he seems to me to be more of a Gatsby/Nick hybrid. Recently out of a failed long term relationship he is searching for something real in his life, someone to save, and that person is Martha. Following a ridiculously short courtship she married Adam oblivious to his controlling and abusive personality, and aside from her confidante Diane she has no escape - until she meets Lucas.  The Great Gatsby is the cause of thei...