Hayley's bookshelf: read en-US Sun, 18 May 2025 06:34:32 -0700 60 Hayley's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Politics On the Edge 212342565 447 Rory Stewart 1529922860 Hayley 4 4.34 2023 Politics On the Edge
author: Rory Stewart
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Silent Wife (Will Trent, #10)]]> 53065750 The New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Last Widow returns with another electrifying Will Trent thriller.

Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there—a serial killer who has systematically been preying on women across the state for years. If Will reopens the investigation and implicates the dead police officer with a hero’s reputation of wrongdoing, the opportunistic convict is willing to provide the information GBI needs about the riot murder.

Only days ago, another young woman was viciously murdered in a state park in northern Georgia. Is it a fluke, or could there be a serial killer on the loose?

As Will Trent digs into both crimes it becomes clear that he must solve the cold case in order to find the answer. Yet nearly a decade has passed—time for memories to fade, witnesses to vanish, evidence to disappear, and lies to become truth. But Will can’t crack either mystery without the help of the one person he doesn’t want involved: his girlfriend and Jeffrey Tolliver’s widow, medical examiner Sara Linton.

When the past and present begin to collide, Will realizes that everything he values is at stake . . .]]> 496 Karin Slaughter 0062858106 Hayley 5 4.16 2020 The Silent Wife (Will Trent, #10)
author: Karin Slaughter
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Of Body and Bone (Detectives Daniels and Remalla, #3)]]> 57837045 After a shocking investigation ends, Detectives Daniels and Remalla are back at work, but their routine is shattered when a child goes missing, and they rush to find a young boy and the man who kidnapped him. But all is not what it seems when they discover the kidnapper’s connection with their previous case and a killer now behind bars.

When Daniels becomes a target and Remalla is plagued by the past, they must trust their instincts to find a killer and protect an innocent victim. But when Daniels’ family is threatened, Daniels must choose between following the law, or breaking it.

As the killer reveals his true nature, strange abilities, and mysterious hidden ties to an evil past, Daniels and Remalla are forced to confront their own oaths as officers and moral compass in order to defeat a man capable of destroying… both body and bone.

Of Body and Bone is book two in the Detectives Daniels and Remalla Series. It closely follows and should be read after Of Breath and Blood.

If you love two bantering detectives, a gripping story that will keep you up at night, a touch of the supernatural, and a thrilling fast-paced read, then purchase Of Body and Bone today!]]> 346 J.T. Bishop 1955370613 Hayley 4 kindle 4.21 Of Body and Bone (Detectives Daniels and Remalla, #3)
author: J.T. Bishop
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.21
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rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/03
date added: 2025/03/03
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]]> Rubbernecker 16071656
Life is already strange enough for Patrick - being a medical student with Asperger's Syndrome doesn't come without its challenges. And that's before he is faced with solving a possible murder, especially when no one believes a crime has even taken place. Now he must stay out of danger long enough to unravel the mystery. But as Patrick learns one truth from a dead man, he discovers there have been many other lies closer to home.]]> 313 Belinda Bauer 0593066928 Hayley 4 kindle 4.06 2013 Rubbernecker
author: Belinda Bauer
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/22
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man in Black and Other Stories]]> 220390288 From the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries, an eclectic, thrilling collection of short stories, featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love.

Elly Griffiths has always written short stories to experiment with different voices and genres as well as to explore what some of her fictional creations such as Ruth Galloway, Harbinder Kaur, and Max Mephisto might have done outside of the novels. The Man in Black gathers these bite-sized tales all together in one splendid volume.

There are ghost stories, cozy mysteries, tales of psychological suspense, and poignant vignettes of love and loss.

In the title story, Ruth Galloway crosses paths with a mysterious man in a bookstore, setting in motion a rescue mission that hinges on the legends and lore of Norfolk.

Looking into the past, a young magician in 1920s Leeds wonders just what happened to his missing landlady in Max Mephisto and the Disappearing Act.

In Justice Jones and the Etherphone, a witty girl detective investigates the dire prediction of a fortune teller in dreary postwar London.

A flashback in time reveals Harbinder Kaur as a Detective Sergeant surviving her first day on the job at Shoreham DCI.

To celebrate the holidays, Ruth gets her very first Christmas tree, and her beloved cat narrates his own seasonal story in Flint’s Fireside Tale.

And readers can armchair travel with stories set on the Amalfi Coast, in Capri, and in Egypt as Ruth and DCI Nelson experience their very own version of Death on the Nile.

The Man in Black illustrates the breadth and variety of Elly Griffiths’s talent for blood-chilling, page-turning stories all with her trademark humor and heart.]]> 320 Juliette Burton 1529420539 Hayley 0 owned, currently-reading 3.85 2024 The Man in Black and Other Stories
author: Juliette Burton
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Adventures of a Vegan Vamp (Vegan Vamp, #1)]]> 75720483 Undead and vegan? Not the afterlife this girl had planned.

Waking up thin is one thing. But waking up gaunt, hangry, and undead makes for a very bad day. Mallory's killer better hide, because she's just discovered blood, meat, and dairy don't agree with her, and a future with no cheese is grim indeed. She's out to find her killer... and maybe a vegan cheese that doesn't melt her nose hairs.]]> 216 Cate Lawley Hayley 3 kindle 3.86 2016 Adventures of a Vegan Vamp (Vegan Vamp, #1)
author: Cate Lawley
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/30
date added: 2024/12/30
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]]> <![CDATA[After That Night (Will Trent, #11)]]> 63833664 After that night, nothing was ever the same again

Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her.

Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by GBI Special Agent Will Trent, it becomes clear that Dani Cooper's assault is uncannily linked to Sara's.

And it seems the past isn't going to stay buried forever.]]> 432 Karin Slaughter 0063157780 Hayley 4 kindle 4.15 2023 After That Night (Will Trent, #11)
author: Karin Slaughter
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/06
date added: 2024/12/06
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]]> My Sister, the Serial Killer 38819868
My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...]]> 226 Oyinkan Braithwaite 0385544235 Hayley 0 to-read 3.64 2018 My Sister, the Serial Killer
author: Oyinkan Braithwaite
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> Pretty Girls 25574782
Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that she might not be the only one.

Claire is convinced Julia's disappearance is linked.

But when she begins to learn the truth about her sister, she is confronted with a shocking discovery, and nothing will ever be the same...]]> 432 Karin Slaughter 0062430874 Hayley 5 kindle 3.99 2015 Pretty Girls
author: Karin Slaughter
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/03
date added: 2024/11/03
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]]> <![CDATA[The Haunting of Blackwych Grange]]> 31547777
Paula is thrilled when she's invited to join the team. Soon, however, she starts to regret her choice.

Something lurks in the dark rooms of Blackwych Grange, something that seeks vengeance. Many years ago, a young woman named Elizabeth Marringham lived in the house with her vicious uncle. Today, more than a century and a half after Elizabeth's death, does her vengeful spirit still roam the house's corridors? And if so, what does she want?]]> 432 Amy Cross Hayley 4 kindle 4.00 2016 The Haunting of Blackwych Grange
author: Amy Cross
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/17
date added: 2024/10/18
shelves: kindle
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An ideal book for October with a twist I wasn't quite expecting!
]]> <![CDATA[Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity]]> 25213585 The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won’t let go—these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also sought to make sense of it through religion or the supernatural, or by constructing psychological or social explanations in an effort to tame the demons of unreason. Madness in Civilization traces the long and complex history of this affliction and our attempts to treat it.

Beautifully illustrated throughout, Madness in Civilization takes readers from antiquity to today, painting a vivid and often harrowing portrait of the different ways that cultures around the world have interpreted and responded to the seemingly irrational, psychotic, and insane. From the Bible to Sigmund Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humors to modern pharmacology, the book explores the manifestations and meanings of madness, its challenges and consequences, and our varied responses to it. It also looks at how insanity has haunted the imaginations of artists and writers and describes the profound influence it has had on the arts, from drama, opera, and the novel to drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Written by one of the world’s preeminent historians of psychiatry, Madness in Civilization is a panoramic history of the human encounter with unreason.

]]> 448 Andrew Scull 0500252122 Hayley 0 3.90 2015 Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
author: Andrew Scull
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/30
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]]> <![CDATA[This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor]]> 60300913 This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.

This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author.]]> 280 Adam Kay 1529062330 Hayley 5 4.50 2017 This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
author: Adam Kay
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/23
date added: 2024/09/23
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This made me laugh, and almost cry.
]]> The Outrun 29490178 283 Amy Liptrot 178211548X Hayley 5 4.04 2015 The Outrun
author: Amy Liptrot
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/02
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder at the Dolphin Hotel (Miss Underhay Mysteries #1)]]> 50963103 A room with a view… to murder

June 1933. Independent young Kitty Underhay has been left in charge of her family’s hotel, The Dolphin, on the tranquil English coast. She’s expecting her days at the bustling resort to be filled with comfortable chatter with chambermaids as they polish the mahogany desks and glittering candelabras of the elegant foyer. Everything must be perfect for the arrival of a glamourous jazz singer from Chicago and a masked ball that will be the cultural highlight of the season.

But when several rooms are broken into and searched, including Kitty’s own, she quickly realises that something out of the ordinary is afoot at the hotel. Soon rumours are flying in the cozy town that someone is on the hunt for a stolen ruby. A ruby that Kitty’s mother may well have possessed when she herself went missing during the Great War. And when the break-ins are followed by a series of attacks and murders, including of the town’s former mayoress, it seems the perpetrator will stop at nothing to find it.

Aided by ex-army captain Matthew Bryant, the Dolphin’s new security officer, Kitty is determined to decipher this mystery and preserve not only the reputation of her hotel, but also the lives of her guests. Is there a cold-blooded killer under her own roof? And what connects the missing jewel to the mystery from Kitty’s own past?

A classic page-turning murder mystery! Fans of Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Edmondson and T.E. Kinsey will love this unputdownable whodunnit. ]]> 252 Helena Dixon Hayley 3 kindle 4.10 2019 Murder at the Dolphin Hotel (Miss Underhay Mysteries #1)
author: Helena Dixon
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/29
date added: 2024/07/29
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]]> <![CDATA[Banksy - The Man Behind The Wall]]> 40952098 0 Will Ellsworth-Jones 1781315973 Hayley 3 3.34 Banksy - The Man Behind The Wall
author: Will Ellsworth-Jones
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.34
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An interesting read about Banksy!
]]> <![CDATA[Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond]]> 62590312 The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy. In her previous two bestsellers, Professor Alice Roberts powerfully and evocatively revived people of the past through examining their burial rites, bringing a fresh perspective on how they lived.

In Crypt, Professor Roberts brings us face to face with individuals who lived and died between ten and five centuries ago. The stories in this book are not comforting tales; there’s a focus on pathology, on disease and injury, and the experience of human suffering in the past. We learn of an episode of terrible brutality, when hate speech unleashed a tide of violence against an ethnic minority; of the devastation caused by incurable epidemics sweeping through medieval Europe; of a protracted battle between Church and State for the heart of England – a battle that saw the most famous tomb in the country created and destroyed; and a tumultuous story, forged in the heat of warfare, that takes us out of the Middle Ages into the sixteenth century and the reign of Henry VIII. In the Middle Ages, there’s barely a written note for most people’s lives.

The information we can extract from archaeological human remains represents is an essential tool for understanding our history. Most of these dead will remain anonymous. But, in the thrilling final chapter, Professor Roberts introduces an individual whose life and bones were marked by chronic debilitating disease – and whose name might just be found in history… Beautifully written, vividly drawn, and expertly researched, this is a brilliant and unexpected portrait of modern Britain.]]> 352 Alice Roberts 1398519243 Hayley 0 to-read 3.95 2024 Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
author: Alice Roberts
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.95
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]]> <![CDATA[Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain]]> 196763945 In Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally – to modern eyes – bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain.

Through stories from the sickbed to the deathbed, from the correct way to grieve and to give comfort to those grieving to funerals and burials and the reaction of those left behind, Flanders illuminates how living in nineteenth-century Britain was, in so many ways, dictated by dying.

This is an engrossing, deeply researched and, at times, chilling social history of a period plagued by infant death, poverty, disease, and unprecedented change. In elegant, often witty prose, Flanders brings the Victorian way of death vividly to life.]]> 395 Judith Flanders 1509817522 Hayley 0 to-read 4.10 Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain
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]]> <![CDATA[For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain]]> 61165321
In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich.

Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ - which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband's abuse - have placed her in danger with the men of the Church, who have begun to hound her as a heretic.

Julian, an anchoress, has not left Norwich, nor the cell to which she has been confined, for twenty-­three years. She has told no one of her own visions - and knows that time is running out for her to do so.

The two women have stories to tell one another. Stories about girlhood, motherhood, sickness, loss, doubt and belief; revelations more the powerful than the world is ready to hear. Their meeting will change everything.

Sensual, vivid and humane, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain cracks history open to reveal the lives of two extraordinary women]]> 166 Victoria Mackenzie 1526647885 Hayley 4 owned 3.81 2023 For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
author: Victoria Mackenzie
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/03/09
date added: 2024/03/09
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]]> Second, Death (Alex Quinn #2) 123445220 Interpol agent Alex Quinn, 29, born to Italian-Turkish parents, is a multi-lingual genius. With an advanced degree in Criminal Psychology from a university in France and a PHD from a Germany university, Alex was recruited by Interpol at the age of 25—their youngest recruit—because of her encyclopedic knowledge of serial killers. When a body is found hanging from the rafters of the Notre Dame in Paris, Alex is dispatched immediately—but this killer may just be the match she has yet to meet…
SECOND, DEATH is book #2 in a new series by #1 bestselling and critically acclaimed mystery and suspense author Rylie Dark, whose books have received over 2,000 five-star reviews and ratings.

With killers preying in high-trafficked historic sites, Interpol convenes a special task force to hunt them down before panic spreads—and finds no one better to head up this new force than Alex Quinn.

Beautiful in an exotic way, with a mixture of her Mediterranean heritage, Alex, with her olive complexion and startling green eyes, bears a pencil thin scar along one hand from the palm to the tip of a finger—a scar that keeps her single-mindedly focused on avenging her parents.

Able to solve cases in record time, Alex has been all over Europe for nearly a decade. Yet one killer still eludes her.

The man who killed her parents.

The darkness of past propels her—yet it also threatens to swallow her whole…

A page-turning and harrowing crime thriller featuring a brilliant and tortured Interpol agent, the Alex Quinn series is a riveting mystery, a cat-and-mouse thriller packed with non-stop action, suspense, twists and turns, revelations, and driven by a breakneck pace that will keep you flipping pages late into the night. Fans of Rachel Caine, Teresa Driscoll and Robert Dugoni are sure to fall in love.]]> 199 Rylie Dark Hayley 3 kindle 4.02 Second, Death (Alex Quinn #2)
author: Rylie Dark
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.02
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rating: 3
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]]> The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1) 55196813
Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.

But Molly's orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black—but will they be able to find the real killer before it's too late?

A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.]]> 304 Nita Prose 0593356152 Hayley 4 kindle 3.71 2022 The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
author: Nita Prose
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/01/17
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]]> The Doll Factory 38591165 The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession.

London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment – forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning.

When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love.

But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening . . .]]> 336 Elizabeth Macneal 1529002397 Hayley 4 kindle 3.76 2019 The Doll Factory
author: Elizabeth Macneal
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine]]> 35900387 No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.

Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .

The only way to survive is to open your heart. ]]> 390 Gail Honeyman 0008172145 Hayley 3 kindle 4.17 2017 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
author: Gail Honeyman
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2017
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/29
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]]> The It-Girl 33547452


Everybody wants to be a famous It Girl. Don't they?

Anna Huntley's aims in life:

1) Must keep my two lovely new (and only) school friends by not doing anything in usual manner of socially inept dork and outcast.

2) Train Dog (my labrador) to high-five. This is probably the most ambitious life goal on this list.

3) Do not set the school's Deputy Queen Bee mean girl's hair on fire (again).

4) Work out whether 2) and 3) constitute being socially inept or outcastish.

5) Go to Africa and give out rice.

6) To hide in a cupboard FOR LIFE with Dog now Dad is engaged to one of the most famous actresses EVER, the paparazzi want to spash my face all over the papers and everyone in school (and The World) is soon to discover the level of my social ineptitude.

7) Is rice a bit done now? Maybe I can give out chocolate in Africa too. I do like chocolate. Must work out how to do it from the cupboard...]]> 352 Katy Birchall 140527817X Hayley 3 3.43 2015 The It-Girl
author: Katy Birchall
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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]]> The Chalk Man 38470233
In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank . . . until one of them turns up dead.

That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.]]> 340 C.J. Tudor 1405930950 Hayley 5 3.75 2018 The Chalk Man
author: C.J. Tudor
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2023/11/12
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]]> Everything Under 36396289
One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel’s name for the thing she feared most. And now that she’s searching for her mother, she’ll have to face it.]]> 264 Daisy Johnson 191070234X Hayley 0 to-read 3.51 2018 Everything Under
author: Daisy Johnson
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.51
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]]> Slay on Tour (Slay, #2) 43623258 SLAY are BACK…and this time they’re headed to Tokyo to track down another hell-raising demon. When they’re invited on tour with a super-cool band of holographic girls, SLAY find themselves whisked off around Japan – until strange things start happening on their tour train. Suddenly it seems it’s not just SLAY’s fans following their every move…



QUOTES ON BOOK 1, SLAY:

“It's so much fun! Remember when YA was fun and it wasn't just people like me preaching at you about things you already agree with? Slay is boyband fights evil and it's going to be huge and you're going to love it.” Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls

“Gloriously absurd, fast-paced summer read.” The Metro

“Boys as swoon-worthy as One Direction saving the world from evil? Sign me up!” Amy Alward, author of The Potion Diaries

“Kick-ass, funny, laugh-out-loud book about a boy band that slays demons! It’s classic cheesiness and that’s the best thing about it. Slay is one of those that is like guilty pleasure with a mixture of Mission Impossible action and gadgets, with the twist and badass of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Never Judge a Book by its Cover blog]]> 336 Kim Curran 1474932320 Hayley 4 3.85 2019 Slay on Tour (Slay, #2)
author: Kim Curran
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood]]> 856991
Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums -- too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brought the family to the brink of disaster. It is a story of courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds. Written with the vitality and resonance of a work of fiction, and a remarkable absence of sentimentality, Angela's Ashes is imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's distinctive humour and compassion. Out of terrible circumstances, he has created a glorious book in the tradition of Ireland's literary masters, which bears all the marks of a great classic.]]> 426 Frank McCourt 0006510345 Hayley 4 4.10 1996 Angela's Ashes : A Memoir of a Childhood
author: Frank McCourt
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Street Cat Named Bob: The Amazing True Story of One Man and His Cat]]> 32313540
Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas.

Soon the two were inseparable and their diverse, comic and occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives, slowly healing the scars of each other's troubled pasts.

A Street Cat Named Bob is a moving and uplifting story that will touch the heart of anyone who reads it.]]> 294 James Bowen 1473633362 Hayley 4 4.00 2012 A Street Cat Named Bob: The Amazing True Story of One Man and His Cat
author: James Bowen
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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A lovely heartwarming read. Must now find the sequel!
]]> Milkman 36047860
Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.]]> 352 Anna Burns 0571338763 Hayley 0 to-read 3.51 2018 Milkman
author: Anna Burns
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)]]> 33572468 356 Elly Griffiths 1786482142 Hayley 3 3.98 2011 A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)
author: Elly Griffiths
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2023/09/04
date added: 2023/09/04
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]]> <![CDATA[Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)]]> 18486818 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.

They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.

Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.

A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?]]> 385 Jojo Moyes Hayley 4 4.40 2012 Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
author: Jojo Moyes
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> The Plantagenets 18338371
Dan Jones brings you a new vision of this battle-scarred history. From the Crusades to King John's humbling over Magna Carta and the tragic reign of the last Plantagenet, Richard II - this is a blow-by-blow account of England's most thrilling age.]]> 636 Dan Jones 0007213948 Hayley 0 4.31 2012 The Plantagenets
author: Dan Jones
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> Life of Pi 16044296 /book/show/1...

ONE BOY, ONE BOAT, ONE TIGER


After a tragic shipwreck, a solitary lifeboat is left at the mercy of the wild blue waters of the Pacific. The only survivors are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a zebra with a broken leg, a hyena, an orang-utan -- and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Now a major motion picture from acclaimed director Ang Lee, the much loved Life of Pi is a bewitching tale of adventure and friendship -- and of finding courage in the most unexpected places.]]> 334 Yann Martel Hayley 4 owned 3.90 2001 Life of Pi
author: Yann Martel
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 2023/05/01
date added: 2023/05/01
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]]> <![CDATA[The Very Best of Fesshole: Britain Confesses Anonymously]]> 61214971 272 Rob Manuel 1804190373 Hayley 5 owned 3.95 The Very Best of Fesshole: Britain Confesses Anonymously
author: Rob Manuel
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.95
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2023/01/07
date added: 2023/01/07
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]]> <![CDATA[Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)]]> 21718 From New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter, the first novel in her acclaimed Grant County series.

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it’s only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer’s twisted work becomes clear.

Sara’s ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation—a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later. But he’s got more than a sadistic serial killer on his hands, because the county’s only female detective, Lena Adams—the first victim’s sister—wants to serve her own justice.

But it is Sara who holds the key to finding the killer. A secret from her past could unmask the brilliantly malevolent psychopath… or mean her death.]]> 418 Karin Slaughter 0380820889 Hayley 4 4.09 2001 Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)
author: Karin Slaughter
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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Although I felt it was a bit slow in parts there were bits that shocked me and bits that made me feel ill. Eager to read more of Karin Slaughter.
]]> <![CDATA[Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard]]> 61062194 From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton’s life on and off the big screen in this #1 New York Times bestseller.

Tom Felton’s adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come after he landed the iconic role of the Draco Malfoy, the bleached blonde villain of the Harry Potter movies. For the next ten years, he was at the center of a huge pop culture phenomenon and yet, in between filming, he would go back to being a normal teenager trying to fit into a normal school.

Speaking with great candor and his signature humor, Tom shares his experience growing up as part of the wizarding world while also trying to navigate the muggle world. He tells stories from his early days in the business like his first acting gig where he was mistaken for fellow blonde child actor Macaulay Culkin and his Harry Potter audition where, in a very Draco-like move, he fudged how well he knew the books the series was based on (not at all). He reflects on his experiences working with cinematic greats such as Alan Rickman, Sir Michael Gambon, Dame Maggie Smith, and Ralph Fiennes (including that awkward Voldemort hug). And, perhaps most poignantly, he discusses the lasting relationships he made over that decade of filming, including with Emma Watson, who started out as a pesky nine-year-old whom he mocked for not knowing what a boom mic was but who soon grew into one of his dearest friends. Then, of course, there are the highs and lows of fame and navigating life after such a momentous and life-changing experience.

Tom Felton’s Beyond the Wand is an entertaining, funny, and poignant must-read for any Harry Potter fan. Prepare to meet a real-life wizard.]]> 288 Tom Felton 1538741369 Hayley 0 to-read 4.28 2022 Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
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]]> Dark Matter 11239488 Out of nowhere, for no reason, I was afraid. My skin pickled. My heart thudded in my throat. My body knew before I did that I was not alone…

London, 1937. Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life, so when he’s offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway and at last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year.

But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. Soon Jack will see the last of the sun, the sea will freeze and escape will be impossible.

And Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark…]]> 280 Michelle Paver 1409121186 Hayley 0 to-read 3.89 2010 Dark Matter
author: Michelle Paver
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain]]> 58623865
It begins between the Creation and Noah's Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants from an age when the children of Cain and the progeny of fallen angels walked the earth, to the founding of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, the birth of Christ, the wars between Britons, Saxons and Vikings, and closes with the arrival of the Normans.

These are retellings of medieval tales of legend, landscape and the yearning to belong, inhabited with characters now Brutus, Albina, Scota, Arthur and Bladud among them. Told with narrative flair, embellished in stunning artworks and glossed with a rich and erudite commentary. We visit beautiful, sacred places that include prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge and Wayland's Smithy, spanning the length of Britain from the archipelago of Orkney to as far south as Cornwall; mountains and lakes such as Snowdon and Loch Etive and rivers including the Ness, the Soar and the story-silted Thames in a vivid, beautiful tale of our land steeped in myth. It Illuminates a collective memory that still informs the identity and political ambition of these places.

In Storyland , Jeffs reimagines these myths of homeland, exile and migration, kinship, loyalty, betrayal, love and loss in a landscape brimming with wonder.]]> 384 Amy Jeffs 1529407974 Hayley 0 to-read 3.84 2021 Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
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name: Hayley
average rating: 3.84
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]]> The Ghosts of Tullybrae House 30182473
Emmie Tunstall is in over her head. Not yet thirty, and she’s been hired as curator at Tullybrae House. A three-hundred year old manor in the Scottish Highlands, Tullybrae has more antique and historically significant artefacts than a museum. It will fall to Emmie to inspect, research and catalogue every last one.

Of the work itself, she is more than capable. But what Emmie doesn’t know is that she and Lamb, Tullybrae’s loyal butler, are not the only ones inhabiting the rambling, three-story mansion. She will soon realize that Tullybrae is also home to the ghosts of a little girl, a former countess, and even Lamb’s own long-deceased mother.

And there is another ghost: an unknown Highlander. Nothing survives of his name, his clan, even his death. Yet he is the one whose presence Emmie senses most strongly, and she becomes determined to solve his mystery. It is here that she is in over her head, for in uncovering his story, she may be uncovering the path to her own destiny.]]> 253 Veronica Bale Hayley 3 owned 4.15 The Ghosts of Tullybrae House
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> <![CDATA[Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World]]> 56491193
In Unwell Women Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women's bodies, and traces the journey from the 'wandering womb' of ancient Greece, the rise of witch trials in Medieval Europe, through the dawn of Hysteria, to modern day understandings of autoimmune diseases, the menopause and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies of women who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical orthodoxy - and drawing on her own experience of un-diagnosed Lupus disease - this is a ground-breaking and timely exposĂŠ of the medical world and woman's place within it.]]> 478 Elinor Cleghorn 1474616852 Hayley 4 history, medicine, owned 4.19 2021 Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
author: Elinor Cleghorn
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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date added: 2022/10/10
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]]> Cromwell: Our Chief of Men 234579 966 Lady Antonia Fraser 0753813319 Hayley 0 currently-reading 3.72 1973 Cromwell: Our Chief of Men
author: Lady Antonia Fraser
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1973
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[How To Clean Your House: Easy tips and tricks to keep your home clean and tidy up your life]]> 43785254 Packed with simple tips and tricks, this is everything you need to know about household cleaning.


Is your busy life conquering your home? Do you find the household chores getting on top of you?


Lynsey Queen of Clean, Instagrammer, businesswoman and busy mum of three, has done all of the work so you don’t have to. Featuring her make-at-home cleaning products, easy step-by-step guides and all her recommendations for toxic-free and eco-friendly products, this book is the ultimate guide to keeping on top of your house, and having fun while you do it.


Lynsey shares her daily and seasonal routines, motivating and encouraging you along the way with so that you are left with the will, and the skill, to take on even the most seemingly insurmountable tasks and end up with a clean, calm and happy home.]]> 256 Lynsey Crombie 000834194X Hayley 3 3.65 How To Clean Your House: Easy tips and tricks to keep your home clean and tidy up your life
author: Lynsey Crombie
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.65
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]]> London: The Biography 578467
London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called 'our age's greatest London imagination.']]> 822 Peter Ackroyd 0099422581 Hayley 4 history, owned 4.01 2000 London: The Biography
author: Peter Ackroyd
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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date added: 2022/08/15
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]]> The Virgin Suicides 10956 250 Jeffrey Eugenides 0747560595 Hayley 5 owned 3.81 1993 The Virgin Suicides
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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date added: 2022/07/26
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]]> <![CDATA[The Yorkshire Witch: The Life and Trial of Mary Bateman]]> 31617215
Some of those who came to see Mary Bateman die had traveled all the way from Leeds, many of them on foot, and many of them were doubtless the victims of her hoaxes and extortion.

A consummate con-artist, Mary was extremely adept at identifying the psychological weaknesses of the desperate and poor who populated the growing industrial metropolis of Leeds at the turn of the nineteenth century. Exploiting their fears and terror of witchcraft, Mary Bateman was well placed to rob them of all their worldly goods, yet she did much more than cause misery and penury; though tried and convicted on a single murder charge, the contemporary branding of Bateman as a serial killer is doubtless accurate.

Meticulously researched, this accessible, and at times shocking retelling of Mary Bateman’s life, and indeed her death, is the first since the publication chronicling her criminal career appeared in print in 1811, two years after her execution. Not only focusing on the details of her felonies and the consequences to her victims, it also examines the macabre legacy of her mortal remains, a bone of contention (literally you might say!) with the continuous public display of her skeleton in the Thackray Medical Museum until the recent removal of this controversial exhibit.]]> 256 Summer Strevens 1473863872 Hayley 0 to-read 3.80 The Yorkshire Witch: The Life and Trial of Mary Bateman
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]]> The Captain and the Glory 53148392 A hilarious, biting satire of the United States and its unpredictable leader from the best-selling author of The Circle

The grand ship Glory has been skilfully captained for years, but when its well-loved old skipper decides to step down, a new leader thrusts himself forward and a new era begins.

The new Captain is vulgar, bumbling and inexplicably confident. With no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law - nor even, as he has repeatedly remarked, a particular liking for boats - he solemnly swears to shake things up.

Together with his band of petty thieves and confidence men known as the Upskirt Boys, the Captain enthralls his passengers: writing his dreams and notions on the cafeteria whiteboard, boasting of his exemplary anatomy, devouring cheeseburgers, and tossing anyone who dissatisfies him overboard.

Until one day a famous pirate, long feared by passengers of the Glory but revered by the Captain for how phenomenally masculine he looks without a shirt while riding a horse, appears on the horizon . . .]]> 128 Dave Eggers 0241445957 Hayley 4 owned 3.42 2019 The Captain and the Glory
author: Dave Eggers
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway, #9)]]> 29910780
Meanwhile, DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of a local rough sleeper. The only trace of her is the rumour that she's gone 'underground'. This might be a figure of speech, but with the discovery of the bones and the rumours both Ruth and the police have heard of a vast network of old chalk-mining tunnels under King's Lynn, home to a vast community of rough sleepers, the clues point in only one direction. Local academic Martin Kellerman knows all about the tunnels and their history - but can his assertions of cannibalism and ritual killing possibly be true?

As the weather gets hotter, tensions rise. A local woman goes missing and the police are under attack. Ruth and Nelson must unravel the dark secrets of The Underground and discover just what gruesome secrets lurk at its heart - before it claims another victim.]]> 374 Elly Griffiths 1784296600 Hayley 3 4.06 2017 The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway, #9)
author: Elly Griffiths
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2017
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts]]> 29744374
The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and sometimes about the modern world too. Christopher de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, collectors and the international community of manuscript scholars, showing us how he and his fellows piece together evidence to reach unexpected conclusions. He traces the elaborate journeys which these exceptionally precious artefacts have made through time and space, shows us how they have been copied, who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell), how they have been embroiled in politics and scholarly disputes, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and luxury and as symbols of national identity. The book touches on religion, art, literature, music, science and the history of taste.

Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts conveys the fascination and excitement of encountering some of the greatest works of art in our culture which, in the originals, are to most people completely inaccessible. At the end, we have a slightly different perspective on history and how we come by knowledge. It is a most unusual book.]]> 632 Christopher de Hamel 0241003040 Hayley 5 history, medieval, owned 4.43 2016 Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
author: Christopher de Hamel
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2022/01/03
date added: 2022/01/03
shelves: history, medieval, owned
review:
It may have taken me five years of on and off reading but this was thoroughly enjoyable.
]]> <![CDATA[The Unwrapping of Theodora Quirke]]> 55630729
Things get even more weird when St Nick insists he's there to save Theo. And with the next St Nicholas Day somehow fast approaching, he's even got a plan that'll change her life forever.

It all seems pretty straightforward, apart for one awkward fact:

Theodora Quirke doesn't actually need saving.]]> 304 Caroline Smailes 1913062511 Hayley 4 fiction, owned 3.78 The Unwrapping of Theodora Quirke
author: Caroline Smailes
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.78
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rating: 4
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date added: 2021/12/29
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This didn't go where I thought it was going go, and I throuroughly enjoyed it!
]]> <![CDATA[Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men]]> 41104077
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women​, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.]]> 448 Caroline Criado Pérez 1419729071 Hayley 5 owned A very eye-opening read! 4.35 2019 Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
author: Caroline Criado PĂŠrez
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2021/02/09
date added: 2021/02/09
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A very eye-opening read!
]]> <![CDATA[Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow]]> 30965703 Alternate covers for this ISBN can be found here and here

WAR IS OBSOLETE
You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict

FAMINE IS DISAPPEARING
You are at more risk of obesity than starvation

DEATH IS JUST A TECHNICAL PROBLEM
Equality is out, but immortality is in

WHAT DOES OUR FUTURE HOLD?]]> 513 Yuval Noah Harari 1784703931 Hayley 0 to-read, owned-and-to-read 4.17 2015 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
author: Yuval Noah Harari
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor]]> 35510008 Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn't – about life on and off the hospital ward.

As seen on ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club

This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author.

]]> 285 Adam Kay Hayley 0 to-read 4.40 2017 This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
author: Adam Kay
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. 50759953 Be the first to pre-order Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. from Chris and Rosie Ramsey, stars of the phenomenally successful chart-topping podcast.

SH**GED
Saturday nights out on the tiles, undying crushes, dating like it's a competitive sport, awkward tales of dating woes, one-night stands, the walk of shame, ghosting, tears and break-ups.

MARRIED
Finding 'the one', meeting their parents, first holidays and romantic weekends away, engagement rings, big moment proposals, wedding bells, the hen do, the stag, the much anticipated - and feared - best man speech, the honeymoon of a lifetime.

ANNOYED
Who stacks a dishwasher like this? Empty milk cartons placed back into the fridge, pregnancy, sleepless nights, toilet seats up, toothpaste everywhere, less and less frequent date nights, DIY weekends, divorce.

Whether you're sh**ged, married, annoyed, or, all of the above, Chris and Rosie Ramsey, hosts of the number one podcast, write hilariously and with honesty about the universal highs and lows of life, dating, relationships, arguments, parenting and everything in between.]]> 335 Chris Ramsey Hayley 5 4.17 2020 Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed.
author: Chris Ramsey
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2020/09/07
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Absolutely loved this! As funny as the podcast and a little sad it's over!
]]> Coraline 17061
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.

The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only it's different.

At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.

Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.]]> 176 Neil Gaiman 0061139378 Hayley 0 to-read 4.13 2002 Coraline
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2002
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]]> The Haunting of Hill House 89717 182 Shirley Jackson 0143039989 Hayley 0 to-read 3.85 1959 The Haunting of Hill House
author: Shirley Jackson
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1959
rating: 0
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]]> Carter Beats the Devil 4599 Carter Beats the Devil is a complex and illuminating story of one man's journey through a magical—and sometimes dangerous—world, where illusion is everything.]]> 483 Glen David Gold 0786886323 Hayley 3 4.09 2001 Carter Beats the Devil
author: Glen David Gold
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 2020/06/14
date added: 2020/06/14
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]]> <![CDATA[Disabled Children: Challenging Social Exclusion (Working Together for Children, Young People, and Their Famil)]]> 6283033 180 Laua Middleton 0632050551 Hayley 0 5.00 1999 Disabled Children: Challenging Social Exclusion (Working Together for Children, Young People, and Their Famil)
author: Laua Middleton
name: Hayley
average rating: 5.00
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/04/23
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]]> Pygmy 4601396 The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club.

“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.”

Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. For Pygmy and his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees.

It’s a comedy. And a romance.]]> 255 Chuck Palahniuk 0385526342 Hayley 3 2.98 2009 Pygmy
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: Hayley
average rating: 2.98
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2020/02/25
date added: 2020/02/25
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]]> <![CDATA[The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper]]> 45893852 Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.

What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888.

Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.

In this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally gives these women back their stories.]]> 416 Hallie Rubenhold 1784162345 Hayley 0 to-read 4.30 2019 The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
author: Hallie Rubenhold
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]]> <![CDATA[This Hollow Land: Aspects of Norfolk Folklore]]> 40724571 296 Peter Tolhurst 0995479259 Hayley 5 history 3.62 This Hollow Land: Aspects of Norfolk Folklore
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]]> The Death of King Arthur 16691897
Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2006) so resourcefully and exuberantly showed. His new translation restores a neglected masterpiece of story-telling, by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint.]]> 192 Unknown 0571249485 Hayley 0 3.60 1380 The Death of King Arthur
author: Unknown
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average rating: 3.60
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]]> <![CDATA[Hinch Yourself Happy: All The Best Cleaning Tips To Shine Your Sink And Soothe Your Soul]]> 43201779 All the best cleaning tips to shine your sink and soothe your soul.

Discover how to transform your home. Cleaning doesn't have to be that job you dread. Not when Mrs Hinch is here to show you her sparkly ways.

Mrs Hinch has taken the nation by storm with her infectiously addictive charm, clever cleaning hacks and her passionate belief in the life-changing magic of tidying.

With the help of her cloth family, Mrs Hinch will help you turn your house into a home. Whether you're a daily duster or looking for a monthly makeover, HINCH YOURSELF HAPPY shows you how to create not only a cleaner house, but a calmer you.

If you want your kitchen to sparkle like Meghan Markle, then this is the book for you.]]> 288 Mrs. Hinch 0241399750 Hayley 4 3.68 Hinch Yourself Happy: All The Best Cleaning Tips To Shine Your Sink And Soothe Your Soul
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name: Hayley
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I was skeptical about this, but actually really enjoyed it! Fab cleaning tips with a personal touch.
]]> <![CDATA[Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)]]> 227443 a. lose 7 pounds
b. stop smoking
c. develop Inner Poise

"129 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier? Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (excellent), cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow), number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)..."

"Bridget Jones' Diary" is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement — a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult - and learn to program the VCR.

Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and — like millions of readers the world round — you'll find yourself shouting, "Bridget Jones is me!"]]> 288 Helen Fielding 014028009X Hayley 0 to-read 3.81 1996 Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
author: Helen Fielding
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1996
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]]> Modern Romance 23453112
Some of our problems are unique to our time.Ěý“Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?”Ěý“Should I go out with this girl even though sheĚýlisted Combos as one of her favorite snack foods?ĚýCombos?!” “My girlfriend just got a message fromĚýsome dude named Nathan. Who’s Nathan? Did heĚýjust send her a photo of his penis? Should I checkĚýjust to be sure?”Ěý

But the transformation of our romantic livesĚýcan’t be explained by technology alone. In a shortĚýperiod of time, the whole culture of finding loveĚýhas changed dramatically. A few decades ago,Ěýpeople would find a decent person who lived inĚýtheir neighborhood. Their families would meetĚýand, after deciding neither party seemed like aĚýmurderer, they would get married and soon haveĚýa kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today,Ěýpeople marry later than ever and spend years ofĚýtheir lives on a quest to find the perfect person, aĚýsoul mate.

For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming hisĚýcomic insight at modern romance, but for ˛Ń´Çťĺąđ°ů˛ÔĚý¸é´Çłž˛š˛ÔłŚąđ, the book, he decided he needed to takeĚýthings to another level. He teamed up with NYUĚýsociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massiveĚýresearch project, including hundreds of interviewsĚýand focus groups conducted everywhere fromĚýTokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzedĚýbehavioral data and surveys and created their ownĚýonline research forum on Reddit, which drewĚýthousands of messages. They enlisted the world’sĚýleading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, HelenĚýFisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, SherryĚýTurkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike anyĚýsocial science or humor book we’ve seen before.

In Modern Romance, Ansari combines hisĚýirreverent humor with cutting-edge social scienceĚýto give us an unforgettable tour of our newĚýromantic world.]]> 279 Aziz Ansari 1594206279 Hayley 0 to-read 3.79 2015 Modern Romance
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name: Hayley
average rating: 3.79
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]]> Yes Please 20910157 Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by.]]> 329 Amy Poehler 0062268341 Hayley 0 to-read 3.85 2014 Yes Please
author: Amy Poehler
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2014
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]]> Bossypants 9418327
She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.]]> 283 Tina Fey Hayley 0 to-read 3.97 2011 Bossypants
author: Tina Fey
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory]]> 609316
Forty years ago, such notions were the province of pseudohistorians who argued that Hitler never meant to kill the Jews, and that only a few hundred thousand died in the camps from disease; they also argued that the Allied bombings of Dresden and other cities were worse than any Nazi offense, and that the Germans were the "true victims" of World War II. For years, those who made such claims were dismissed as harmless cranks operating on the lunatic fringe.

But over the past decade they have begun to gain a hearing in respectable arenas, and now, in the first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Deborah Lipstadt shows how - despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence - this irrational idea not only has continued to gain adherents but has become an international movement, with organized chapters, "independent" research centers, and official publications that promote a "revisionist" view of recent history.

One sign of the movement's disturbing resonance is the rise of such figures as the Holocaust denier David Duke to national prominence. Holocaust deniers have also begun to make common cause with radical Afrocentrists such as Leonard Jeffries of New York's City University, who retells racist myths about the Jews; and a recent campaign of ads in college newspapers calling for "open debate" on "so-called facts" about the Holocaust suggests a bold new bid for mainstream intellectual legitimacy.

Lipstadt shows how Holocaust denial thrives in the current atmosphere of value relativism, and argues that this chilling attack on the factual record not only threatens Jews but undermines the very tenets of objective scholarship that support our faith in historical knowledge.]]> 304 Deborah E. Lipstadt 0452272742 Hayley 0 to-read 3.96 1993 Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
author: Deborah E. Lipstadt
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1993
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]]> <![CDATA[Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life]]> 11394564 333 Mark Radcliffe 085720050X Hayley 0 to-read 3.74 2011 Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life
author: Mark Radcliffe
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.74
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]]> Cider With Roadies 765769 Stuart Maconie 0091897459 Hayley 0 to-read 3.93 2004 Cider With Roadies
author: Stuart Maconie
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.93
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]]> Guts 6395833 16 Chuck Palahniuk Hayley 0 to-read 3.88 2004 Guts
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.88
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]]> <![CDATA[The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980]]> 342823
Highly original and beautifully written, The Female Malady is a vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female role.]]> 320 Elaine Showalter 0860688690 Hayley 0 to-read 4.16 1985 The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
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name: Hayley
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[MĂźtter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs]]> 1048715
Here, the focus is on the museum’s archive of rare historic photographs, most of which have never been seen by the public. Featured are poignant, aesthetically accomplished works ranging from Civil War photographs showing injury and recovery, to the ravages of diseases not yet conquered in the 19th century, to pathological anomalies, to psychological disorders.

Many were taken by talented photographers between the 1860s and the 1940s as records for physicians to share among colleagues and to track patients’ conditions, and demonstrate various techniques used in medical photography including the daguerreotype, micrography, X ray, and traditional portrait-style photography.

As visual documents of what humans endured in the face of limited medical knowledge, these extraordinary and haunting photographs demonstrate how far medicine has advanced.]]> 223 Laura Lindgren 0922233284 Hayley 0 to-read 4.32 2007 MĂźtter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs
author: Laura Lindgren
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2007
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]]> <![CDATA[Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930]]> 6422242
"Cadavers, camera, action!" (The New York Times Book Review). From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first patients. Featuring 138 of these historic photographs and illuminating essays by two experts on the subject, Dissection reveals a startling piece of American history. Sherwin Nuland, MD, said this is "a truly unique and important book [that] documents a period in medical education in a way that is matched by no other existing contribution." And Mary Roach said Dissection "is the most extraordinary book I have ever seen--the perfect coffee table book for all the households where I'd most like to be invited for coffee."
]]> 208 John Harley Warner 0922233349 Hayley 0 to-read 4.43 2009 Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930
author: John Harley Warner
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average rating: 4.43
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]]> <![CDATA[Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive]]> 21807414 199 Sue Henger 086719796X Hayley 0 to-read 4.63 2014 Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive
author: Sue Henger
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.63
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]]> <![CDATA[Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them]]> 16122237 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them resides on almost every wizarding household in the country. Now, for a limited period only, Muggles too have the chance to discover where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats, and why it is best not to leave milk out for a Knarl.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to improving and saving the lives of children around the world, which means that the dollars and Galleons you exchange for it will do magic beyond the powers of any wizard. If you feel that this is insufficient reason to part with your money, I can only hope most sincerel that passing wizards feel more charitable if they ever see you being attacked by a Manticore.

-Albus Dumbledore

]]> 123 Newt Scamander 1408835053 Hayley 5 fiction, owned 3.91 2001 Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them
author: Newt Scamander
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History (Very Brief Histories)]]> 37658939
Julian lived through an age of political and religious turmoil, as well as through the misery of the Black Death, and her writing engages with timeless questions about life, love and the meaning of suffering. But who was Julian of Norwich? And what can she teach us today?

Medievalist and TV historian Janina Ramirez invites you to join her in exploring Julian's remarkable life and times, offering insights into how and why her writing has survived, and what we can learn from this fourteenth-century mystic whose work lay hidden in the shadows of her male contemporaries for far too long.]]> 96 Janina RamĂ­rez 0281076847 Hayley 5 history, medieval, owned 4.20 Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History (Very Brief Histories)
author: Janina RamĂ­rez
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.20
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date added: 2018/05/08
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It didn't actually take me as long as it appears, I read the book in two sittings, and on th second I've questioned why it took me so long to pick back up. Ramirez provides a fantastic "brief history" to Julian's story, it is engaging and thought provoking. A book I would recommend to anyone with an interest in the fourteenth century world.
]]> Change the World for a Fiver 2498984 196 We Are What We Do 1904095968 Hayley 0 owned 3.81 2004 Change the World for a Fiver
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name: Hayley
average rating: 3.81
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]]> F*cked 34457692 Are You a Dirty, Nasty Slut? Or a Sexually Repressed Nightmare?

Regardless of your background or bedroom resume, someone or something has probably made you feel that way at some point. This was what Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson discovered when they created the wildly popular Guys We Fucked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast. What started as an outlet to interview--

You guessed it!--guys they'd fucked, quickly evolved into an enormous community of Fuckers around the world, and a place to share stories of kinks gone wild, trauma, assault, and the overall confusion among people who don't know what the fuck they are doing (in other words, everyone).

F*CKED brings these raw, ridiculous, and serious conversations from the podcast to the page. It is a guide to love and sex for anyone -- female, male, trans, or undecided--who is fed up with double standards and the stigma surrounding sexual beings. It is for anyone who has ever felt afraid to be their authentic self. Corinne and Krystyna won't talk down to you or coddle you because you're better than that. They won't explain why he's just not that into you, because it doesn't fucking matter. This book will teach you how to deal with shit, brush your shoulder off, and move on. You'll also learn about:


Why shame is completely made up and how we can stop giving into it
Sexual exploration and how it sometimes ends in a trip to the ER
Stuff we should stop doing: Snooping, nitpicking our bodies, and faking orgasms
Asking your sexual partner uncomfortable questions
Masturbation, threesomes, porn, sex toys, butt stuff, and much, much more
Despite what Rom-Coms and magazines tell you, you can handle sexual exploration without the assistance of a man, a glass of rose, and a Xanax. More importantly, you're fine all by yourself. This is the book Bridget Jones should've read instead of writing that shitty diary in the first place.]]> 304 Krystyna Hutchinson 0349416044 Hayley 5 favorites, owned 4.02 2017 F*cked
author: Krystyna Hutchinson
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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Everyone should read this book. And I mean everyone.
]]> <![CDATA[Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them]]> 30199426
In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn’t stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the mysterious dancing plague. In late-seventeenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome―a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure. And in turn-of-the-century New York, an Irish cook caused two lethal outbreaks of typhoid fever, a case that transformed her into the notorious Typhoid Mary.

Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them. Some of their responses to those outbreaks are almost too strange to believe in hindsight. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues we’ve suffered as a species, as well as stories of the heroic figures who selflessly fought to ease the suffering of their fellow man. With her signature mix of in-depth research and storytelling, and not a little dark humor, Jennifer Wright explores history’s most gripping and deadly outbreaks, and ultimately looks at the surprising ways they’ve shaped history and humanity for almost as long as anyone can remember.]]> 336 Jennifer Wright 1627797467 Hayley 0 to-read 4.27 2017 Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
author: Jennifer Wright
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> The Plague Charmer 29847151 562 Maitland Karen 147223586X Hayley 3 3.85 2016 The Plague Charmer
author: Maitland Karen
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2017/10/28
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]]> <![CDATA[Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape]]> 30742520
Drawing on in-depth interviews with young women and a wide range of psychologists and experts, renowned journalist and bestselling author Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths and hard lessons of girls’ sex lives in the modern world.]]> 320 Peggy Orenstein 1786070499 Hayley 4 4.01 2016 Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
author: Peggy Orenstein
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> The Tales of Beedle the Bard 16122245 The Tales of Beedle the Bard contains five richly diverse fairy tales, each with its own magical character, that will variously bring delight, laughter and the thrill of mortal peril.

Essential and enjoyable reading for Muggles and wizards alike, The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a uniquely magical volume. With illuminating notes by Albus Dumbledore.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Lumos, a charity working to transform the lives of disadvantaged children.]]> 108 J.K. Rowling 1408835045 Hayley 5 favorites, fiction, owned 4.20 2008 The Tales of Beedle the Bard
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> The Incest Diary 31574738

Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her twenties. It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires. Even after she broke away—even as she grew into an independent and adventurous young woman—she continued to seek out new versions of the violence, submission, and secrecy she had struggled to leave behind.

In this graphic and harrowing memoir, the author revisits her early traumas and their aftermath—not from a clinical distance, but from deep within—to explore the ways in which her father's abuse shaped her, and still does. As a matter of psychic survival, she became both a sexual object and a detached observer, a dutiful daughter and the protector of a dirty secret. And then, years later, she made herself write it down.

With lyric concision, in vignettes of almost unbearable intensity, this writer tells a story that is shocking but that will ring true to many other survivors of abuse. It has never been faced so directly on the page.]]> 144 Anonymous 0374175551 Hayley 0 owned 3.65 2017 The Incest Diary
author: Anonymous
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.65
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]]> <![CDATA[In the Land of Giants: Journeys Through the Dark Ages]]> 27915648
Max Adams explores Britain's lost early medieval past by walking its paths and exploring its lasting imprint on valley, hill and field. From York to Whitby, from London to Sutton Hoo, from Edinburgh to Anglesey and from Hadrian’s Wall to Loch Tay, each of his ten walk narratives form both free-standing chapters and parts of a wider portrait of a Britain of fort and fyrd, crypt and crannog, church and causeway, holy well and memorial stone.

Part travelogue, part expert reconstruction, IN THE LAND OF GIANTS offers a beautifully written insight into the lives of peasants, drengs, ceorls, thanes, monks and kings during an enigmatic but richly exciting period of our island’s history.]]> 445 Max Adams 1784080330 Hayley 5 3.77 2015 In the Land of Giants: Journeys Through the Dark Ages
author: Max Adams
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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This book has taken me the most part of a year to finish, but that is no reflection of how I felt reading. I loved the telling of the journeys, and have a few ideas of my own!
]]> Consider the Lilies 37134 Consider the Lilies, Iain Crichton Smith captures its impact through the thoughts and memories of an old woman who has lived all her life within the narrow confines of her community. Alone and bewildered by the demands of the factor, Patrick Sellar, she approaches the minister for help, only to have her faith shattered by his hypocrisy. She finds comfort, however, from a surprising source: Donald Macleod, an imaginative and self-educated man who has been ostracised by his neighbours, not least by Mrs Scott herself, on account of his atheism. Through him and through the circumstances forced upon her, the old woman achieves new strength.

Written with compassion, in spare, simple prose, Consider the Lilies is a moving testament to the enduring qualities which enable the oppressed to triumph in defeat.]]> 144 Iain Crichton Smith 0753812932 Hayley 4 master-of-history 3.92 1968 Consider the Lilies
author: Iain Crichton Smith
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1968
rating: 4
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date added: 2017/03/09
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Despite currently studying the clearances and the particular context under which this takes places, it has been the first book in a long I was sad to finish. The ending was unexpected and with reading it as ebook I was today unaware I had reached the end until no more pages appeared!
]]> <![CDATA[The Making of the Crofting Community]]> 13242286 The Making of the Crofting Community has attracted praise, inspired debate, and provoked outrage and controversy over the years. This book remains necessary to challenge standard academic interpretations of the Highland past. Having long been one of the classics of Birlinn's John Donald list, this revised and updated new edition includes a substantial new preface and an extensive reworking of the existing text.]]> 336 James Hunter 1841588539 Hayley 0 currently-reading 4.50 2010 The Making of the Crofting Community
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name: Hayley
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of English Folk Tales]]> 27160949 384 Sybil Marshall 1468313177 Hayley 0 to-read 3.94 1981 The Book of English Folk Tales
author: Sybil Marshall
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man]]> 28456291 304 Nina Lyon 0571318010 Hayley 0 to-read 3.23 Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man
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name: Hayley
average rating: 3.23
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)]]> 29056083
It was always difficult being Harry Potter, and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is the complete and official playscript of the original, award-winning West End production. This updated edition includes the final dialogue and stage directions, a conversation piece between director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne, the Potter family tree, and a timeline of events in the wizarding world leading up to "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."]]> 343 J.K. Rowling 0540027340 Hayley 4 owned, fiction, favorites 3.42 2016 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Hayley
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart]]> 25733658
Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.]]> 288 James R. Doty 1594632987 Hayley 0 to-read 4.18 2016 Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
author: James R. Doty
name: Hayley
average rating: 4.18
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]]> <![CDATA[Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World]]> 25614523 Originals the author addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all?
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Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn’t even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.
]]> 326 Adam M. Grant 0525429565 Hayley 0 to-read 3.93 2016 Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
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]]> <![CDATA[Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City]]> 25852784 Evicted, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.]]> 418 Matthew Desmond 0553447432 Hayley 0 to-read 4.47 2016 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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]]> <![CDATA[Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial]]> 27883209 Serial told Only Part of the Story…

In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes of finding a journalist who could shed light on Adnan’s story. In 2014, Koenig's investigation turned into Serial, a Peabody Award-winning podcast with more than 500 million international listeners

But Serial did not tell the whole story. In this compelling narrative, Rabia Chaudry presents new key evidence that she maintains dismantles the State's case: a potential new suspect, forensics indicating Hae was killed and kept somewhere for almost half a day, and documentation withheld by the State that destroys the cell phone evidence -- among many other points -- and she shows how fans of Serial joined a crowd-sourced investigation into a case riddled with errors and strange twists. Adnan's Story also shares Adnan’s life in prison, and weaves in his personal reflections, including never-before-seen letters. Chaudry, who is committed to exonerating Adnan, makes it clear that justice is yet to be achieved in this much examined case.]]> 410 Rabia Chaudry 1250087104 Hayley 0 to-read 4.09 2016 Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
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]]> <![CDATA[Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape]]> 25816707 New York Times Magazine and the New York Times best-selling author of books like Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Orenstein spoke to psychologists, academics, and other experts in the field and yes, 70 young women, to offer an in-depth picture of “girls and sex” today.]]> 303 Peggy Orenstein 0062209728 Hayley 0 to-read 4.06 2016 Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
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]]> Hamilton: The Revolution 26200563 Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best traditions of theater, this once-in-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap, and claims our country's origins for a diverse new generation.

Hamilton: The Revolution gives readers an unprecedented view of both revolutions, from the only two writers able to provide it. Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, a cultural critic and theater artist who was involved in the project from its earliest stages--"since before this was even a show," according to Miranda--trace its development from an improbable perfor­mance at the White House to its landmark opening night on Broadway six years later. In addition, Miranda has written more than 200 funny, revealing footnotes for his award-winning libretto, the full text of which is published here.

Their account features photos by the renowned Frank Ockenfels and veteran Broadway photographer Joan Marcus; exclusive looks at notebooks and emails; interviews with Questlove, Stephen Sond­heim, leading political commentators, and more than 40 people involved with the production; and multiple appearances by Presi­dent Obama himself. The book does more than tell the surprising story of how a Broadway musical became a national phenomenon: It demonstrates that America has always been renewed by the brash upstarts and brilliant outsiders, the men and women who don't throw away their shot.]]> 285 Lin-Manuel Miranda 1455539740 Hayley 0 to-read 4.45 2015 Hamilton: The Revolution
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]]> My Best Friend's Exorcism 26118005
Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?

Like an unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist, My best Friend's Exorcism blends teen angst, adolescent drama, unspeakable horrors, and a mix of '80s pop songs into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller.]]> 330 Grady Hendrix 1594748624 Hayley 0 to-read 3.91 2016 My Best Friend's Exorcism
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]]> Here I Am 28116847 A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, “Here I am.”

How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in eleven years--a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.

Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks, in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the very meaning of home--and the fundamental question of how much life one can bear.

Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers and critics loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer’s stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a mature novelist who has fully come into his own as one of the most important writers of his generation.]]> 592 Jonathan Safran Foer 0374280029 Hayley 0 to-read 3.57 2016 Here I Am
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]]> Re-thinking History 135849
The perfect introduction to this thought-provoking area, Jenkins' clear and concise prose guides readers through the controversies and debates that surround historical thinking at the present time, providing them with the means to make their own discoveries.]]> 128 Keith Jenkins 0415304431 Hayley 0 master-of-history, history 3.76 1991 Re-thinking History
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]]> <![CDATA[Myth and materiality in a woman’s world: Shetland 1800–2000 (Gender in History)]]> 9966151
It examines the opportunities and life experiences of women in a place where more of them worked and fewer got married than anywhere else in the British Isles. And it is about the relationship between myth-making and historical materiality and the ways in which the people of this northern archipelago have imagined their past. Reconstructing this ‘woman’s world’ from fragments of cultural experience captured in written and oral sources, the author recreates and explores Shetland using its inhabitants’ material experience and personal testimony.]]> 264 Lynn Abrams 0719065933 Hayley 0 3.84 2005 Myth and materiality in a woman’s world: Shetland 1800–2000 (Gender in History)
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]]> The Romanovs, 1613-1918 21094391
This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon Sebag Montefiore’s gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, with a global cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy and Pushkin, to Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria and Lenin.]]> 784 Simon Sebag Montefiore 0297852663 Hayley 0 to-read 3.97 2016 The Romanovs, 1613-1918
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