Category: books

  • Marvel-A-Thon | Progress Report

    Marvel-A-Thon | Progress Report

    Well folks, we’ve reached the mid-way point (or thereabouts) for the Marvel-A-Thon readathon so I thought I’d do an updates post, a progress report if you will, to hold me accountable for what I said I’d read and to also try to reassure me that I have read a lot, even if it doesn’t feel like it…

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  • Tag | Norse Mythology Book Tag

    Tag | Norse Mythology Book Tag

    It’s that time of the week again: it’s Tag Thursday. Hold the applause, please. Considering I’m right in the thick of re-reading (this time via audiobook) Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology and I am quite a fan of an MCU character based on a certain trickster god from the Norse pantheon, I couldn’t not do this tag when I saw…

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  • Review | The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

    Review | The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

    Title: The Hazel Wood (2018) Author: Melissa Albert Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 8th February 2018 Read: 25th – 30th March 2018 Genre: young-adult; fantasy Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars “Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But…

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  • T5W | Summer Reads

    T5W | Summer Reads

    Welcome 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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  • Review | Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

    Review | Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart

    Title: Genuine Fraud (2017) Author: E. Lockhart Publisher: Hot Key Books Read: 1st – 2nd June 2018 Genre: young-adult; mystery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe…

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  • Marvel-A-Thon | Sign Up & TBR

    Marvel-A-Thon | Sign Up & TBR

    I know what you’re thinking – Emma, didn’t you just post a monthly June TBR? Why yes, astute reader, I did… but then I learnt from Kelly that the Marvel-A-Thon readathon was a Thing that was happening, and pretty much any TBR plans I had were kicked to the kerb because I love the MCU. I decided it would be…

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  • Wrap Up | May 2018

    Wrap Up | May 2018

    Welcome one, welcome all, to my May Wrap Up. As a month, May has been pretty damn great. We’ve had not one but two Bank Holidays (which has meant glorious 3-day weekends), during one of which I went home to visit family and during the other of which me and Liz had a couple of…

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  • June TBR

    June TBR

    As you may have noticed in my May TBR, I am often very ambitious and very fool-hardy when it comes to setting TBRs as I almost never stick to them 100%. If I’m lucky, I stick to them 50%. Not to spoil my May Wrap Up but I’d say this past month has been about 16.66666%,…

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  • Down the TBR Hole #21

    Down the TBR Hole #21

    Welcome folks to the twenty first round of Down the TBR Hole! As I mentioned in my last round of DtTH (nope, that acronym isn’t particularly attractive, is it?), this little project has been a great way of weening down my TBR over the past year so I’ve decided to keep it up and make it…

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  • Review | Royals by Rachel Hawkins

    Review | Royals by Rachel Hawkins

    Title: Royals (2018) Author: Rachel Hawkins Publisher: Scholastic Read: 19th – 20th May 2018 Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Meet Daisy Winters. She’s an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair; a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who’s nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland. Daisy…

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