#prettypaperbacks

Friday is here! It’s time for another book haul. Today I’ve got three paperbacks for you, one of which I’ve already read - The Things We Do For Love which I buddy read with my lovely sister @chrissireads It was a difficult read for me on one level but I really enjoyed the story and will have my review up soon. It follows a seventeen year old girl who has a difficult relationship with her mother and a woman in her 30’s who is desperate to be a mother. Little Scratch is all the fault of the gorgeous @victoria_catherine_shaw who told me I had to get my mitts on this book. It is the story of a day in the life of an unnamed woman, living in a lower-case world of demarcated fridge shelves and office politics; clock watching and What’s App notifications. The protagonist tells us how she gets through morning to night whilst processing recent sexual violence. Finally, we have another translated work from @tiltedaxisbooks which I’ve become slightly obsessed with. I’ll Go On is a story from one of South Korea’s most acclaimed young authors about two sisters, Sora and Nana. When the girls are young, they lose their father in a horrific freak accident and their mother, Aeja becomes unhealthily obsessed with the violence in life. It’s a stunning exploration of the intensity of early bonds and the traces they leave on us as we grow up. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! Have a lovely weekend everyone 🤗😘 #bookstagram #bookhaul #cantstophauling #prettypaperbacks #tiltedaxispress #smallpresssupport #kristinhannah #thethingswedoforlove #littlescratch #rebeccawatson #illgoon #hwangjungeun #emilyyaewon #translatedfiction #literaryfiction #contemporaryfiction #lovingbooks #mybookcollection #onthetbr #bookhoarder #bookcollector #booksforlife #booksforever #authorsnewtome #favouriteauthors https://www.instagram.com/p/CaIUYwirXcg/?utm_medium=tumblr

Hello everyone and hope your week is going well. I have not had such a good start and I despair at myself 😂 As you might or might not know, I injured my head, neck and top of back in a fall at the beginning of December. That’s all nicely healed now and daily yoga has really helped. Today I injure my LOWER back. By doing what? Turning around quickly 🙄 I give up. Let’s cheer myself up with a book haul! 😜 Now I’m still to read Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road To The Deep North (but don’t worry @victoria_catherine_shaw it’s getting bumped this year 😆). I couldn’t resist this new paperback though as I’m pretty sure he’s a author I’m going to love. The story follows Anna whose aged mother is dying. Her children refuse to accept it and keep trying to make her stay. Forced to stay alive, she disappears through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight. Anna too feels that pull out of the window as parts of her body start to go missing - first a finger, then a few months later, a knee. One of the reasons I love bookstagram so much is the books it throws up that you weren’t expecting. I was compelled to buy Ru when @tarheelreader was talking to me about the author. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit we are taken on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp and onwards to a new life in Quebec all told through the eyes of one girl. Finally, I’ve been eagerly waiting for Mrs Death Misses Death to be released in paperback. Death is a black, working class woman who is fed up of having done her job for an eternity and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments and have a great week everyone! 🤗😘 #bookstagram #bookhoarder #bookhaul #prettypaperbacks #toomanybooks #thelivingseaofwakingdreams #richardflanagan #ru #kimthúy #mrsdeathmissesdeath #salenagodden #bookstoread #tbrpiletoohigh #booksimexcitedabout #ohlookanotherbook https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ-BdRurKxE/?utm_medium=tumblr

Hello everyone and welcome to the weekend! Hope you’ve all had a great week. Today it’s a rather muted book haul from me, it’s the #waveoflight2021 and strangely enough, I’m also hauling a book with quite a poignant title - perhaps it’s the universes way of telling me not to give up hope just yet? 🤔 Against The Loveless World is described as a sweeping and lyrical novel about a young Palestinian refugee who is slowly becoming radicalised as she fights to find a better life for her family. You Will Never Be Forgotten is a debut short story collection that looked too intriguing to ignore. Mary South explores how technology can both collapse our relationships from within and offer us an opportunity for a genuine connection. Finally, Anxious People is the new release in paperback from one of my favourite authors. It follows a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they realised. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments! Have a great weekend everyone 🤗😘 #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookhaul #prettypaperbacks #tbrkeepsongrowing #againstthelovelessworld #susanabulhawa #youwillneverbeforgotten #marysouth #shortstories #debutshortstorycollection #anxiouspeople #fredrikbackman #noregrets #morebooksplease https://www.instagram.com/p/CVD8Kq5AyAE/?utm_medium=tumblr