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August: Read, Reading & To Be Read

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Hello! My inner bookworm usually hibernates during the school term but recently it's come out like the social butterfly I am! It has been thrilling, so I thought I'd share with you three books; one I have finished reading, one I'm in the middle of reading and one I've yet to read but will start reading this month Read: The book that I have finished reading is The Well by Elizabeth Jolley. I had to read this book for school and let me tell you, it was haunting! It's a Gothic novel and I don't mean Gothic, dress style Gothic, I mean Gothic as in genre Gothic. The book is about an elderly woman named Hester Harper and the young girl she adopts named Katherine (I don't know if adopt is the right word because she sort of just brings her home and labels her as her own) Eventually Hester gets older and so does Katherine and things start to change. Not to mention Hester's sexuality too. No one, even Hester knows what she wants in terms of gender. This is j

The Best Books I've Ever Read

CALLING ALL BOOKWORMS!! Books make up my life. There is nothing more comforting for me to just sit down in the sun, on a Sunday and read a good book. I hardly get the chance to read because I am a student. That always makes reading so much better for me though. It makes me appreciate reading much more than I normally would. In my years of reading, I have acquired many books which have made me feel like a million bucks. If you're as bookish as me, you know the feeling of finishing a really good book and feeling like you're heart is a little bit more complete. (Maybe I'm just crazy, there's a good chance of that too) So I want to share with you, all the books that have left me feeling a little bit more complete. Books make me too soppy, I'm never like this. 1. Animal Farm by George Orwell This is a classic, you may have heard of this already because it is pretty popular. I had to read this for my English class in year 10 and since then it has been one of my favou