#BookSnapSunday – The Dictionary of Lost Words

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary,  how potent … they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!"  Nathaniel Hawthorne The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is …

#BookSnapSunday – The Mother’s Promise

Three women, one girl and the vow that binds them Book Snap Sunday is a weekly photo-book challenge hosted by Sharon of Gum Trees and Galaxies. Each Sunday we try to post a creative snap of a book - one that we've read, are reading, or perhaps want to read. I have not read Sally …

#BookSnapSunday – Crossroads Trilogy

  For centuries the Guardians ruled the Hundred, but these unearthly beings have faded from human sight. Only the Reeves, patrolling on enormous eagles, still represent the Guardians’ power. But there is a corruption in the land that not even they can control… Outlanders Anji and Mai are on the run with a company of …

#BookSnapSunday – The Daughters of Mars

In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father’s dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first in the Dardanelles, then on the Western Front. At once …

#BookSnapSunday – When We Were Vikings

Sadly I missed last week’s #BookSnap, but this week is featuring When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald. This year I am making a bit more of an effort to read some new releases. Most of my TBR comprises of classics, titles from the 1001 list, prizewinners from previous decades and any other book …

#BookSnapSunday – An American Marriage

I have been joining in with Sharon from Gum Trees and Galaxies posting a book snap on a Sunday afternoon. After missing a few weeks it is nice to be back with an excellent book by Tayari Jones, although photographing an ebook did provide an interesting challenge. I was introduced to Tayari Jones when I …

#BookSnapSunday – The God of Small Things

This week I’m borrowing an idea from Sharon from Gum Trees and Galaxies, who used the beautiful pond at Laurel Bank Park for her snap of Claude Monet's Mad Enchantment a few weeks ago. The floating water lilies and reeds was the perfect backdrop for Arundhati Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, which was awarded …

#BookSnapSunday – Wyoming Stories

Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx is a collection of short stories that features a wonderful array of characters and depicts the poverty, hardship and resilience of the people of Wyoming. It was originally published as two volumes: Close Range in 1999 and Bad Dirt in 2004. This combined edition was published in 2007 and features one …

#BookSnapSunday -The Man Who Was Thursday

The title of today's #Book Snap is The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton (1874-1936). My edition contains two of Chesterton's novels: The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday. I read the first of the stories almost three years ago and then never got around to reading the second. …

#BookSnapSunday – Pride and Prejudice

  This week's #Book Snap is the classic Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I have just finished reading this for my course Texts in Adaptation, and as I was reading, and taking notes for the essay, I was thinking about how I could frame the photo. My lecturer made a comment in our lecture …