Luke’s Blog 📚 Book Blogger

Sorry I’ve been quiet and missed my Sunday newsletter, we went on our daughter’s first holiday! 😍

Ah, if only I worked based on commission 😉 Enjoy!!

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🤪 It’s back! Here’s every book I read in September in the form of silent face reactions!

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins book review - Luke’s Blog Catching Fire does everything a good sequel does, building on the world, the stakes and the characters while leaving more to be explored.

🔥 Catching Fire does everything a good sequel does, building on the world, the stakes and the characters while leaving more to be explored.

Read my full review 👇
www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix book review I often think of The Order of the Phoenix as the weakest in the series but then reread it and remember how series-defining it is.

🐦‍🔥 I often think of The Order of the Phoenix as the weakest in the series, but then reread it and remember how series-defining it is!

Read my full review here 👇
www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

BILF (Book I’d Like to Finish)

Anyone else not of any of the books from the Booker Prize shortlist, let alone read them?

Well, amazing!

Ha, amazing!

What’s something you learned from reading a book (fiction or non-fiction, it doesn’t matter)?

I’m just excited for the post rapture book sales! 🤑

YouTube video by Luke's Blog I'm going to convince you to read these 5 books!

🫵 In this video, I try and convince you to read these books.

Let me know if it works 👇

youtu.be/vA5m1jXNXWs

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So excited to have forgot I pre-ordered Dan Brown’s new Robert Langdon novel The Secret of Secrets and have it rock up on my doorstep!!

Before the baby, I sometimes read three books a week. Now I sometimes read three pages before someone needs changing.

✅ Finished book 35 of the year, Empire of Silence, yesterday.

What an epic of a book. Probably a bit slow for my liking but I hear it really picks up in the (many) sequels!

Have you read it?

In The Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan book review - Luke’s Blog In The Blink of An Eye introduces an AI bot into the police workforce and starts off cliché but suddenly improves about halfway through.

🤖 In The Blink of an Eye introduces an AI bot into the police workforce and starts off cliché, but suddenly improves about halfway through.

Read my full review 👇
www.lukeharkness.com/book-reviews...

T&Cs:
• UK-only I’m afraid
• Ends Wednesday 10 September at 9pm GMT
• Only genuine entries will be included, no “giveaway only” accounts

Acquaintances*

Too damn right. Place the blame elsewhere!

Being a reader means constantly deciding between reading the books you already own or buying new ones you’ll also ignore

I know! People love Autumn but realistically sunshine is better than rain, no matter the temperature outside!

YouTube video by Luke's Blog How I rated every book I read in August | August reading round-up

📖 I’m back baby! I read six books in August after reading only ONE in July.

Have a watch of which were my favourites 👇

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins book review - Luke’s Blog Even reading it well over a decade later, you can see why The Hunger Games is a future classic and became a sensation at the time.

“The Hunger Games will eventually go down as a classic and, having now properly read it as an adult , I understand why - but it doesn’t necessarily make it a fantastic book”

Read my full review 👇
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YouTube video by Luke's Blog Fantasy and Sci Fi Books I'm SO excited to read!

There are so many fantasy and science fiction books I want to read this year!

Here are ten I’m most hyped to read! 👇

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One minute I’m out clubbing at the age of 18, the next minute I’m 31 and sharing a 10 hour white noise Spotify playlist with my partner because it’s the latest thing “that works” to rest the baby

Just finished. Yes, this is significantly the better prequel. Brilliant!

I’m hoping I feel the same!

Time to finish off the Hunger Game books. I hear this is the better of the prequels 🤞