Twenty Times A Lady by Karyn Bosnak

Twenty Times A Lady
Karyn Bosnak

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Twenty Times A Lady sees Delilah Darling reconnecting with all her past lovers in an attempt to find someone to settle down with. Join her as she travels across America finding these men, with sometimes hilarious consequences.


As far as chick-lit books go, Twenty Times A Lady was amusing at points, and VERY easy to read, even sometimes difficult to put down. It's basically a mid life crisis story with a twist.

I found all the characters were believable and the prose was just flowing. A great book for relaxing with, or taking on holiday. I did find, however, that it was a bit predictable. There was nothing to keep me on my toes or question in Twenty Times A Lady. I had figured out what was going to happen quite early on, and it was just a case of finding out if I was right or not, which I was!

Overall, I would say Twenty Times A Lady is not very stimulating, but it is great for a relaxing read and the characters and story are very believable. It is well written, and quite humerous.

"Everything you do in life, whether it's good or bad, makes you who you are." - Grandpa.

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The Wee Librocubicularist

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien 

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Yes, as many years as I have been reading, and considering the amount I read, it's amazing to think I've never read The Hobbit before. Well, that's not 100% true. When I was a child I read about half of it. But this is the first time I've read it all the way through.

The Hobbit sees Bilbo Baggins and 13 dwarves on an adventure to find the treasure protected by a great dragon; Smaug. Guided most of the way by a wizard named Gandalf, join them in their adventures with goblins, elves, trolls and many more creatures they meet along the way!


Before reading The Hobbit properly, I had heard a lot about Tolkien's style of writing. Mainly that everything was described in such detail that it became boring. I didn't find that with The Hobbit, it was definitely not as long winded as I thought it would be.  I felt it was very easy to follow, as if someone was actually reading the story aloud to me while I was reading it.

The dwarves are very musical, and seem to have a song about everything! I find it difficult to imagine what the songs sound like (which is weird because I'm quite musical) so I tend to just read them as poems.  I very much enjoyed the riddles, though some of them were quite tricky! I had to restrain myself from peeking at the answers until I thought I had it or I gave up!


After reading this I can see where Terry Pratchett got some inspiration for Guards! Guards! For example, having a dragon as kind, and only having one arrow left to kill the dragon. Obviously Pratchett has a more comical take on things, but the similarities are there.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - Thorin, king of the dwarves.

The story of The Hobbit is set over a year, which just goes to show, a lot can happen in one year!

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The Wee Librocubicularist