Book-Social - Changes are afoot!

Did you know the Cramlington Book Club blog is nine years old? It is, and in blog terms that's pretty old.

It started out as a way of recording the books the book club had read during the year. It's hard to remember how many stars you gave April's book of the month when in December! Liking the blogging malarkey I started to include reviews of every book I read. I hooked up with social-media and started to participate in Blog Tours. Without me realising it the Cramlington Book Club blog wasn't about Cramlington Book Club anymore. It wasn't their books or their thoughts.

Off the back of this realisation (and with the help of web designer hubby) Book-Social has been born. A website for all things book.

There will be reviews, blog tours, articles, features and give-aways. Book Clubs, actual books, independent Book Shops and publishers will be heavily featured as that's what important to me.

Cramlington Book Club still exists, it is still going strong. This blog will still post the Book of the Month reviews and existing Blog Tour commitments. But anything in addition to this will be Book-Social and I'd love you to join me. Head over to www.book-social.co.uk to check it out. You can keep up to date with us on Twitter at @BookSocialUK and our Facebook page BookSocialUK. And if you have a book club, book shop or book you would like us to shout about. Get in touch!!!

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Mount by Jilly Cooper #inbetweeny

I'll start this blog with a warning, this post does contain spoilers. So if you haven't read the book then please don't read this blog, yet. Of course you should read this post just wait a little while until you've read the latest installment of Rupert Campbell Black (RCB). Warnings out of the way I'll begin. I was massively looking forward to reading this book having hugely enjoyed the previous ones. RCB is my (not so) secret trashy pleasure and has been for many years. This book had all the ingredients of a classic, pages of wonderfully named characters, a few tortured souls and of course RCB with all his horses, dogs and now grandchildren. The book got off to a good start full of characters from old but also plenty of new ones to mix it up a bit. The horse's really played a starring role in this book but I also really loved Gav and at first Gala. Yep only at first as she went strongly down hill and I bet you can guess why. RCB. Here is where I fell o...

Stitch Up (A Best Defence Mystery) by William McIntyre #BlogTour

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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray and a 30 a day habit.

Nothing like challenging oneself in the New Year and rather than giving up alcohol and only eating steamed kale the Book Club decided on reading the 900 odd page doorstop that is Vanity Fair . I ordered it at once and (using something vaguely like maths) worked out I needed to read 30 pages a day to have it read in time for the meeting. I was surprisingly undeterred by this and thought if nothing else I could use the book as a dumbbell when working off the chocolate orange. I found I actually liked hitting my 30 a day target (much like all the other New Years' resolutioners like hitting their ten thousand steps) and it motivated me to just squeeze a few more pages in here and there so I was ahead of target. I haven’t really approached a book this way before but then it is longer than my copy of War and Peace and there are over 50 books on my bookshelf waiting to be read (now in 'to read' order due to much prating about over Christmas). I didn’t kno...

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