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Tome Topple 7 | Sign Up & TBR
Read more: Tome Topple 7 | Sign Up & TBRWelcome one and all to, you guessed it from the title, a sign-up post for Tome Topple. The seventh round of Tome Topple is taking place from the stroke of midnight on 16th November and runs through until 11:59 pm on 29th November. For those who don’t know, Tome Topple is fortnight-long readathon in which…
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Top Ten Tuesday | Backlist Books I Want to Read
Read more: Top Ten Tuesday | Backlist Books I Want to ReadWelcome one, welcome all, to Top Ten Tuesday! For those who are unaware (or who might need a reminder) Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by book bloggers and list lovers, The Broke and the Bookish, and is now hosted fantastically by Jana from That Artsy Girl! Each week a topic is chosen for bloggers to respond…
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Wrap Up | October 2018
Read more: Wrap Up | October 2018Welcome one, welcome all, to my October Wrap Up. As we’re nearing the end of the year my reading pace seems to be slowing down slightly but that’s ok and I partly blame being on holiday for that. My holidays have been stacked towards the end of the year which means I haven’t read quite…
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T5W | Characters You’d Cosplay
Read more: T5W | Characters You’d CosplayWelcome 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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Try a Chapter | Choosing My Disney Holiday TBR
Read more: Try a Chapter | Choosing My Disney Holiday TBRYou might have seen my previous go at Try a Chapter for my Barcelona holiday back at the start of September, and it worked so well helping me choose which books to take with me on holiday… whether I read all of them is another issue but shhhhh. And, much like with my previous holiday TBR, I’m not sure…
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Discussion | Rating Favourite Authors’ Books
Read more: Discussion | Rating Favourite Authors’ BooksHowdy folks! Today I bring you the lesser spotted discussion post in which I muse on something that’s caught my attention lately. For today’s post, I was inspired by my recent read of Vicious by V.E. Schwab, a book which I enjoyed but struggled to settle on a rating for. I thought I’d unpack why and, when…
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Review | The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Read more: Review | The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasTitle: The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) Author: Alexandre Dumas Translator: Robin Buss Publisher/Edition: Penguin Clothbound Classics Read: 3rd July – 18th August 2018 Genre: classics Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars “A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not…
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Review | Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
Read more: Review | Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna KendrickTitle: Scrappy Little Nobody (2016) Author: Anna Kendrick Publisher: Simon & Schuster Read: 24th – 29th August 2018 Genre: memoir; humour Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually…

