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: magpiefearne; books; 03 January 2025; Hits: 45

Fave Reads of 2024

I read 80 books in 2024, which is a decent number, if a bit smaller than what I managed in the last few years. Here is a summary of my reading year:

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: magpiefearne; books; 22 July 2024; Hits: 624

My own Best Books of the 21st century

I'm sure we've all seen the NYT list of the 100 best books of the 21st century and perhaps some of you caught the second list, Readers Pick their Best Books of the 21st century, after all the comments the newspaper got about the first one.

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: magpiefearne; books; 31 January 2020; Hits: 2210

Favourite romance reads of 2019

Valentine’s Day draws close, and what better way to celebrate than by reading some romance? Since I haven’t done an end-of-year reading post, I thought I’d recommend my favourite romance reads of 2019:

musings

: magpiefearne; musings; 02 August 2024; Hits: 666

poorly explain your book: a different kind of logline

A novel logline is a single sentence that encapsulates the premise of a book, shows the main character, the central conflict and the stakes. In short, it's the core of the story, dug out from the myriad elements that make up a novel, buffed and polished into one shiny, diamond-bright sentence.

romancelandia

: magpiefearne; romancelandia; 30 January 2020; Hits: 2399

5 reasons to read romance and 1 reason not to

I’m a newbie in romancelandia, having read my first novel (Think of England by KJ Charles) only about eighteen months ago. I then immediately proceeded to read about thirty romance stories in the next year, and I’m here to tell you why you should try the genre, even if you haven’t read any so far and especially if you hesitate to do so because of all the stereotypes that abound about romance novels.