Category: books

  • Down the TBR Hole #15

    Down the TBR Hole #15

    Welcome folks to the fifteenth 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 a…

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  • Review | Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

    Review | Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

    Title: Fangirl (2013) Author: Rainbow Rowell Publisher: Pan Macmillan Read: 2nd – 4th February 2018 (original review) Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath it’s something more. Fandom is life. It’s what got her and her sister, Wren, through losing…

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  • Top Ten Tuesday | Kindle Books That Have Been On My TBR the Longest

    Top Ten Tuesday | Kindle Books That Have Been On My TBR the Longest

    Welcome 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 | January 2018

    Wrap Up | January 2018

    January has turned out to be a pretty good month in general. Everything seems to be moving up and onto good things. I feel like I’ve got into a swing(ish) of work, reading, blogging, and life in general and I’m off to a good start with all my resolutions for 2018, including the book-related ones!…

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  • Down the TBR Hole #14

    Down the TBR Hole #14

    Welcome folks to the fourteenth round of Down the TBR Hole! As I mentioned in my last round of DtTH (shall I coin that? the 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…

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  • Unboxing | Fairyloot December ‘Oh So Regal’ Box

    Unboxing | Fairyloot December ‘Oh So Regal’ Box

    Hello one, hello all. Today I bring you a very belated but nonetheless exciting post – an unboxing! And not just any old unboxing but an unboxing of December’s Fairyloot box focused on the theme ‘Oh So Regal‘. For those who don’t know, Fairyloot is a UK-based subscription box with a monthly theme which the products of…

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  • Review | The Fandom by Anna Day

    Review | The Fandom by Anna Day

    Title: The Fandom (2018) Author: Anna Day Publisher: Chicken House Read: 12th – 15th January 2018 Genre: young-adult; dystopia Rating: 3 out of 5 stars “No story is worth dying for … is it? Violet and her friends love being part of the fandom for The Gallows Dance. But at Comic-Con, they’re somehow catapulted into the story…

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  • Feature | The Bookish Savings Jar

    Feature | The Bookish Savings Jar

    Whilst taking part in my very first #SundayYA Twitter chat, I stumbled across a brilliant idea via Charlie (@charlieinabook), originally courtesy of Aoife (@prettyPPD) and Steph (@eenalol) , whereby you put £1 in a jar for every book read. ‘My oh my,’ I thought, ‘even if I only just about reached my Goodreads goal, that…

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  • Review | Sourdough by Robin Sloan

    Review | Sourdough by Robin Sloan

    Title: Sourdough (2017) Author: Robin Sloan Publisher: Atlantic Books Read: 15th – 17th January 2018 Genre: contemporary; magical realism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two…

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  • Down the TBR Hole #13

    Down the TBR Hole #13

    Welcome folks to the thirteenth round of Down the TBR Hole! That’s right, I’ve somehow reached unlucky number thirteen of this blog post series and I kind of can’t believe it. The previous twelve posts from 2017 have really helped to clean up my Goodreads TBR and start to get it to a point where it’s a little more honest…

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