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T5W | Books You Didn’t Get to in 2018
Read more: T5W | Books You Didn’t Get to in 2018Welcome one and all to this week’s Top 5 Wednesday post! For those of you who don’t know Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme/challenge which was created by the wonderful Lainey from gingerreadslainey and is now overseen by the equally lovely Sam from Thoughts on Tomes. Every Wednesday, participants devise their Top 5 based on a given topic. This Wednesday’s…
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Blogmas Reflection & Happy Holidays
Read more: Blogmas Reflection & Happy HolidaysI could make this a long post, or I could keep it simple. I’ll try for brevity, for once. If you haven’t gathered, I’ve been trying to bring a little Blogmas spirit to the blog since the start of the month and I’m slightly surprised I managed to keep it going until today, Christmas Eve.…
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Down the TBR Hole #27
Read more: Down the TBR Hole #27Welcome folks to the twenty-seventh round of Down the TBR Hole! For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, check out the previous posts via the tag or check out Lia at Lost in a Story who is the creator of this wonderful meme/project. I’m trying to make this a regular feature of my blogging schedule…
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Review | The Dark Days Pact by Alison Goodman
Read more: Review | The Dark Days Pact by Alison GoodmanTitle: The Dark Days Pact (2017) Author: Alison Goodman Publisher/Edition: Walker Books Read: 18th – 26th November 2018 Genre: fantasy; historical fiction; young-adult Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Brighton, July 1812. Lady Helen Wrexhall is spending the summer season in Brighton, where she will continue her Reclaimer training and prepare for her duties as a fully fledged…
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Review | I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
Read more: Review | I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’FarrellTitle: I Am, I Am, I Am: A Memoir (2017) Author: Maggie O’Farrell Publisher/Edition: Tinder Press Read: 11th – 15th December 2018 Genre: non-fiction; memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “When Maggie O’Farrell’s daughter was diagnosed with a severe immunology disorder, she found herself writing stories to make sense of how closely with live alongside the possibility…
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Review | And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Read more: Review | And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieTitle: And Then There Were None (1939) Author: Agatha Christie Publisher/Edition: HarperCollins Read: 27th – 28th November 2018 Genre: classics; mystery Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars “Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the…
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Discussion | TBRs – Guidelines or Rules?
Read more: Discussion | TBRs – Guidelines or Rules?Welcome folks, on this rather late evening, to another discussion post. Today, I’ve been (once again) poring over my remaining challenge prompts for an annual reading challenge, the reading prompts I want to cover in an upcoming readathon, and the TBR I set for myself back at the start of December. Trying to juggle all…
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Classics Club | December 2018 Check-In
Read more: Classics Club | December 2018 Check-InFor today’s post, I was inspired by Olive from abookolive‘s recent 12 Classics Books I Want to Read in 2019 video. At the end of every year she plans ahead which classics she would like to tackle in the coming year, in effect creating an annual TBR for herself. I think that’s a great idea since,…

