Goose

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Welcome to my book blog... I am fairly new to reading, I have always enjoyed it but have never really dedicated much time to it. Until last year the only books I had properly read were the Harry Potter series (multiple times), Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak, The Hunger Games and The Hobbit, all when I was a teenager (although I am a self professed Potter-head so HP will always be a regular read for me!). I branched out last year and bought a load of books and now that I have found my genre I cant stop! I love books that take normal every day life and give it a twist, i.e. set in the future, on an alien planet, or the wizarding world! I am particularly drawn to dystopian novels, set in the near future that give commentary on current society and the potential impact of how we live (although I do not limit myself just to this genre, I will read anything that takes my fancy!). I also really enjoy magical fantasy books in which I can be transported to another world! I have never written any kind of blog or reviews before and mostly just want to use this as a way to document my thoughts on the books I read I would also love any book recommendations, dystopian or not, to add to my reading list! Goose Reviewed Books: --Page 1-- 2021 Ready Player One - Ernest Cline The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken The Giver - Lois Lowry A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess The Constant Rabbit - Jasper Fforde In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Anxious People - Fredrik Backman The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin --Page 2-- My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell Bones of Faerie - Jannie Lee Simner Bunny - Mona Awad You're Welcome, Universe - Whitney Gardner 1984 - George Orwell Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones Arc of a Scythe Trilogy (#1 Scythe, #2 Thunderhead & #3 The Toll) - Neal Shusterman Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus Duology #1) - Nicky Drayden The Choice - Claire Wade The Unit - Ninni Holmqvist Divided Kingdom - Rupert Thomson The Sad Ghost Club - Lize Meddings --Page 3-- Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection) – Amor Towles Tender is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (The Wayfarers Series #1) – Becky Chambers Emergency Skin (Forward Collection) – N. K. Jemisin Roxy – Neal Shusterman 2022 Rabbits – Terry Miles The Wicker King – K. Ancrum Coraline – Neil Gaiman Summer Frost (Forward Collection) – Blake Crouch A Closed and Common Orbit (The Wayfarers Series #2) – Becky Chambers Symbiosis (Escaping Exodus Duology #2) – Nicky Drayden The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly – Sun-Mi Hwang Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman Eliza and her Monsters – Francesca Zappia The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky --Page 4-- Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson Heartless – Marissa Meyer A Court of Thorns and Roses Series (#1 A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2 A Court of Mist and Fury & #3 A Court of Wings and Ruin) – Sarah J. Maas The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold Keeping It Real – Justina Robson The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett Record of a Spaceborn Few (The Wayfarers Series #3) – Becky Chambers The Year of the Witching – Alexis Henderson Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik To Kill a Kingdom – Alexandra Christo The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix The Cruel Prince Series (#1 The Cruel Prince, #2 The Wicked King & #3 The Queen of Nothing) – Holly Black Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine The Midnight Library – Matt Haig The Innkeeper Chronicles (#1 Clean Sweep, #2 Sweep in Peace, #3 One Fell Sweep, #4 Sweep of the Blade, #5 Sweep with Me & #6 Sweep of the Heart) – Ilona Andrews To Be Taught if Fortunate – Becky Chambers Wings – Aprilynne Pike The House in the Cerulean Sea – T.J. Klune --Page 5-- Animal Farm – George Orwell I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Ian Reid Magpie – Elizabeth Day Room – Emma Donoghue Six of Crows Duology (#1 Six of Crows & #2 Crooked Kingdom) – Leigh Bardugo Perfectly Preventable Deaths Duology (#1 Perfectly Preventable Deaths & #2 Precious Catastrophe) – Deirdre Sullivan The Maze Runner - James Dashner 2023 Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller The School for Good and Evil – Soman Chainani The Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard Flawed – Cecelia Ahern Dorothy Must Die – Danielle Paige How to Buy a Planet – D. A. Holdsworth Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett Payback’s a Witch – Lana Harper One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey --Page 6-- The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman Old Man’s War – John Scalzi You’d Be Home Now – Kathleen Glasgow --Page 7-- Legends & Lattes – Travis Baldree The Luna Chronicles (#1 Cinder, #2 Scarlett, #3 Cress, #4 Winter & #4.5 Stars Above) - Marissa Meyer Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett The Luminaries - Susan Dennard The Tea Dragon Society - Kay O'Neill The Time Machine - H. G. Wells Faeries of the Faultlines - Iris Compiet Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology #1) – Emily Tesh A Deadly Education (The Scholomance Series #1) – Naomi Novik Sea Witch – Sarah Henning The Moss Series (#1 By Ash, Oak and Thorn & #2 By Rowan and Yew) - Melissa Harrison The Android’s Dream – John Scalzi --Page 8-- The Last Graduate (The Scholomance Series #2) – Naomi Novik A Marvellous Light – Freya Marske The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology #1) – Holly Black Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance Series #3) – Naomi Novik The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham Five Minds – Guy Morpuss The Faerie Hounds of York – Arden Powell The Invisible Library – Genevieve Cogman Wild Beauty – Anna-Marie McLemore The One – John Marrs The Library of the Dead – T. L. Huchu The Surface Breaks – Louise O’Neill