As I predicted, March was a bit of a crazy month for me. The good news is that I’m one month down in my final year at university. The bad news is I wasn’t able to finish my entire March TBR List đŚ I did enjoy every book I read, so I can’t complain about that! Lady Chatterley’s Lover inspired a lot
Lady Chatterley’s Lover inspired a lot of conversation. No matter what you think of the novel itself, it’s safe to say Lawerence managed to produce an extremely controversial novel which I think was his main goal. I love every single word I’ve read by Terry Tyler, so it’s no surprise that I thoroughly enjoyed her latest, Best Seller. And Precious Things was a wonderful surprise from an Australian author new to me, Kelly Doust.
At university I’ve been learning all about play and games and lots of interesting theories about video games plus working very hard on a group web project, Bookstagram Wiz.
And on a personal note, I’m over the moon that footy is back in Australia. Go Cats! I’m a little bit disappointed that Summer is over and the weather is starting to cool down, but we can’t have everything exactly how we would like it all of time. Although an endless Summer would be kind of nice in a perfect world where climate change was not an issue.
Books I read in March
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 
Description
LADY CHATTERLEYâS LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterleyâs marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husbandâs words, finds herself involved in a passionate relationship with their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Lawrenceâs vitriolic denunciations of industrialism and class division come together in his vivid depiction of the profound emotional and physical connection between a couple otherwise divided by station and society
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This book is part of the David Bowie Reading Challenge #DBowieBooks
Best Seller by Terry Tyler 
Description
Three women, one dream: to become a successful author.
Eden Taylor has made itâbig time. A twenty-three year old with model girl looks and a book deal with a major publisher, sheâs outselling the established names in her field and is fast becoming the darling of the media.
Becky Hunter has money problems. Can she earn enough from her light-hearted romance novels to counteract boyfriend Alexâs extravagant spending habits, before their rocky world collapses?
Hard up factory worker Jan Chilver sees writing as an escape from her troubled, lonely life. She is offered a lifelineâbut fails to read the small printâŚ
In the competitive world of publishing, success can be merely a matter of who you knowâand how ruthless you are prepared to be to get to the top.
BEST SELLER is a novella of 40k words (roughly half as long as an average length novel), a slightly dark, slightly edgy drama with a twist or three in the tale.
Precious Things by Kelly Doust 
Description
In the tradition of gloriously absorbing, lush and moving womenâs fiction by authors such as Kate Morton, Lucinda Riley and Joanne Harris comes PRECIOUS THINGS.
Normandy, France, 1891: a young woman painstakingly sews an intricate beaded collar to her wedding dress, the night before her marriage to someone she barely knows. Yet Aimee longs for so much more âŚ
Shanghai, 1926: dancing sensation and wild child Zephyr spies what looks like a beaded headpiece lying carelessly discarded on a ballroom floor. She takes it with her to Malaya where she sets her sights on a prize so out of reach that, in striving for it, she will jeopardise everything she holds dear âŚ
PRECIOUS THINGS tells the story of a collar â a wonderful, glittering beaded piece â and its journey through the decades. Itâs also the story of Maggie, an auctioneer living in modern-day London, who comes across the crumpled, neglected collar in a box of old junk, and sets out on an unexpected mission to discover more about its secret and elusive past.
Maggie has a journey of her own too. Juggling a demanding job, a clingy young child and a rebellious stepdaughter, and with her once-solid marriage foundering under the pressure of a busy life, Maggie has to find out the hard way that you canât always get what you want⌠but sometimes, youâre lucky enough to get precisely what you need.
This is a wonderful, absorbing and moving novel about desire, marriage and family, telling the story about how we so often reach out for the sparkly, shiny things (and people) we desire, only to realise â in the nick of time â that the most precious things are the ones weâve had with us all along.
April TBR List
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Description
From the David Bowie Reading Challenge#DBowieBooks
When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and womenâs magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair.
Flaubertâs novel scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857, and it remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society.
Broken Sky by L.A. Weatherley 
Description
Welcome to a âperfectâ world. Where war is illegal, harmony is enforced, and your date of birth marks your destiny. But nothing is perfect, and in a world this broken, who can Amity trust? Friends? Family? Her one true love? An electrifying new series of heartbreak and deception from L.A. Weatherly, bestselling author of the ANGEL trilogy.
Conjuror by John and Carole E. Barrowman 
Description
Sixteen-year-old twins Matt and Em Calder are Animare: they can bring art to life, and travel in time through paintings. They work for Orion – the Animare MI5 – protecting the secrecy of their order and investigating crimes committed by their own kind. It’s dangerous work. But when they are sent to Edinburgh to find a teenage boy who can alter reality with his music, they are drawn into something more dangerous still. For this boy, Remy, is the Conjurer’s Son. And he carries something that could change humanity for ever…
F*ck Love by Tarryn Fisher 
Description
Helena Conway has fallen in love.
Unwillingly. Unwittingly.
But not unprovoked.
Kit Isley is everything sheâs notâunstructured, untethered,
and not even a little bit careful.
It could all be so beautiful ⌠if he wasnât dating her best friend.
Helena must defy her heart, do the right thing, and think of others.
Until she doesnât.
