The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Title: The Diary of a Young Girl
Author: Anne Frank
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: July 1993
Genre: Non-Fiction, Autobiography

Summary:
Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank and her famous diary. This book, lovingly released by her father, captures and records her entries in her diary over the years she lived in the secret annex.

Review:
I have always wanted to read The Diary of a Young Girl but have never got around to it. In terms of writing, I cannot really comment as it is autobiographical so I will keep it short. However, this book does give an extremely interesting insight into what it was like to be a Jew during the war and what Anne, and her family and friends, went through in hiding.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Title: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Author: Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Publisher: Quirk
Release Date: 1st May 2009
Genre: Horror, Classics, Fiction, Romance

Summary:
England has fallen victim to a mysterious plague which turns people in to mindless, brain-hungry zombies. However, the Bennett sisters are highly-trained fighters who are determined to protect their small village in rural Hertfordshire. Elizabeth Bennett, the eldest sister, is their best and most fearful leader in the fight against Satan's spawn. That is until she is distracted by the arrogant and intriguing Mr Darcy.

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking

Title: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Author: Stephen Hawking
Publisher: Bantam Books
Release Date: 1988
Genre: Non-fiction, Science

Summary:
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes provides an insight into the mind of Stephen Hawking and his thoughts into the history of the universe. He aims to answer, or at least unable readers to understand, his lifetime work of pinpointing a precise moment when the universe, and time and space, began.

Review:
As some of you may know, my boyfriend, and most of my friends, are physicists (they are like the plague at my university - they are everywhere!). I therefore get exposed to really long, complicated conversations where they speak in abbreviations and use weird words which I do not understand. I therefore felt it was my duty to see if this book would help me understand at least some of what they are talking about - maybe then I could stop saying the answer is pi all the time...

Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

Title: Library of Souls
Author: Ransom Riggs
Publisher: Quirk
Release Date: 22nd September 2015
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction

Summary:
Jacob, and his peculiar friends, are in London in search of their beloved Miss Peregrine and friends. They soon find themselves in Devils Acre searching the labyrinth of alleys. However, Jacob soon becomes a hot commodity as more and more people learn about his ability putting Emma and their quest in jeopardy.

Review: 
Library of Souls  is the final instalment (I believe and hope!) in the Miss Peregrime's Peculiar Children series (reviews of the other two books Miss Peregrime's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City can be found here and here). I have a few issues with the series in general, like that it seems to be tailor made for adaptations for films (which is not necessarily a good thing) and the story seems to have been dragged out over three books just for the sake of it.

The Shining by Stephen King

Title: The Shining
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Release Date: 1st July 1980
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Classic, Horror

Summary:
When his father becomes the Winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, young Danny Torrance does not know the danger that awaits him. Danny is blessed (or as some may say - cursed) with the shining and the mysterious forces inside the hotel want it badly...

Review:
I made a promise to myself to "try" and look after myself more with all my assignments and drama going on around me so, I thought I would take a stab at The Shining which I have tried to read about three times before.

The Martian by Andy Weir

Title: The Martian
Author: Andy Weir
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: 27th August 2015
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Summary:

After a NASA mission to Mars, goes horribly wrong Mark Watney is left stranded on the red-planet with no way to communicate with Earth. 

With limited food, water and threat of his life-support systems breaking down at any moment; Watney has to "science the shit out of" the situation to survive.

Masters. I Need to Get Some Things Off Of My Chest.

Surprise surprise - university work has taken over my life yet again, which leaves little time for me to do fun things and read books! The rest of my Christmas break was taken up with work and I did not get time to read anymore books that were given to me for my birthday - sorry everyone that brought me books! So, instead, I am going to get some things off of my chest and vent...