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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
I resisted reading Jane Eyre for a great many years. Mostly because it was a cliché favourite classic among nerdy girls and I wanted to pretend I wasn’t one. I was more interested in devouring the...
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Make time for Tapestry
Situation normal, with me slipping behind in my book reviewing due to preferring to spend time book reading. However, I couldn’t wait for another three posts of book journalling to review Tapestry by...
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104 in 2014: 6. it’s not what you do
It doesn’t matter what you’re reading, just that you are reading. We’re an egalitarian bunch here at book coasters with an insatiable passion for the written word – classics, popular fiction,...
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The Hidden Cottage by Erica James
The Hidden Cottage by Erica James is an easy read based in a rural English village called Little Pelham. The story revolves around Mia Channing, her husband Jeff and their children Jensen, Eliza and...
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Labor Day Book Club Kit Discussion Questions
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard is available as one of the Gold Coast Libraries’ book club kits. **Please be aware that book discussion questions may contain spoilers** Synopsis: Labor Day is a novel...
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The Light Between Oceans by M.L.Stedman Book Club Kit Discussion Questions
The Light Between Oceans is available as one of the Gold Coast Libraries’ Book Club Kits. **Please be aware that book discussion questions may contain spoilers** Synopsis: Imagine it is 1926 and...
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The White Queen
Philippa Gregory’s historical fiction novel has been adapted for tv but does it bring history to life like her book have? The White Queen is set during the War of the Roses with the Houses of Lancaster...
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Don’t want to miss a thing – Jill Mansell
Don’t want to miss a thing by Jill Mansell – When Dexter’s beloved sister dies suddenly, she leaves behind her 8 month old daughter, Delphi for him to raise. Dexter, a man who previously pursued a life...
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Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Series – behind the scenes of True Blood
While her writing style may not be suited to everyone’s taste, Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries, which the HBO television series True Blood is based on, is nothing short of...
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The Pact by Jodi Picoult
The basic plot of this story has two children growing up together as inseperable best friends from birth until, as they become teenagers, this inevitably turns to them having a romantic relationship....
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The Rosie Effect – the hilarious sequel!
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion. ‘The Rosie Effect‘ is the sequel to the amazingly successful ‘The Rosie Project‘, which won the 2014 Australian Book Industry Award for the Best General Fiction...
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Should You Read a Book About Neil Patrick Harris? If You Answer Yes Click...
You are reading the Bookcoasters website homepage. You initially wanted to search for something but have found typing in faint grey letters on an ocean background in the search box hard to see what...
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Holiday Read
Landline by Rainbow Rowell Georgie has stayed in Los Angeles while her husband Neal and her two daughters have gone to Omaha for Christmas. No-one is especially happy with this arrangement but Georgie...
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THE TEA ROSE BY JENNIFER DONNELLY
Jennifer Donnelly depicts an epic three part historical saga which begins its journey in East London, 1888. An old-fashioned story instilled with a modern sensibility of family destruction, revenge and...
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White Gardenia
Our book club thoroughly enjoyed White Gardenia by Belinda Alexandra. When we first meet the heroine of the novel, Anya, she is a 13 year old living with her mother Alina Kozlova in Harbin, a haven...
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May online ebook club: the art of healing heartbeats
This month we are reading The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philip Sendker. This is a story about the resiliance of the human heart. A successful New York lawyer disappears without a trace and the...
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DELIRIUM BY LAUREN OLIVER
DELIRIUM is a beautifully woven tale of forbidden love with a unique modern twist. Set within a dystopian society love – amor delirium nervosa – is deemed a dangerous disease, illicit by the government...
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May online ebook club wrap up: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
This month we looked at a romance novel for our online ebook club. While I refer to it as a romance novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats byJan-Philipp Sendker is not the Mills and Boon type of romance....
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The Other side of paradise
The Other side of paradise by Margaret Mayhew is a light read. Set just prior and during the fall of Singapore, the novel tells the story of well-to-do-privileged Susan Roper and her family. Susan...
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There’ll Be Blue Skies by Ellie Dean
There’ll Be Blue Skies is a delightful read set in war time England with vivid details of that period. The characters are endearing and interesting, there is 16 year old Sally and her younger brother...
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