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WWW Wednesday #3 | 24th May 2017
Read more: WWW Wednesday #3 | 24th May 2017You’d be forgiven for not remembering the last time I did a WWW Wednesday (it was back in March, fyi) because I’ve been on the Top 5 Wednesday bandwagon for a little while instead. However, this week, I’ve decided to plump for a WWW post and talk a little about what I’m reading and planning…
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Review | A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Read more: Review | A Room with a View by E.M. ForsterTitle: A Room with a View (1908) Author: E.M. Forster Publisher: Penguin English Library Read: 19th April – 3rd May 2017 Genre: classic Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars A Room with a View is a 20th-century classic that begins in sun-soaked Florence before retiring to the Edwardian English countryside and proved to be a rather pleasant surprise for yours truly, quite possibly…
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Discussion | Reading Before Watching
Read more: Discussion | Reading Before WatchingHi folks, I bring you something of a discussion post regarding something that has been on my mind recently – reading before watching. Let me clarify – reading a book before watching the adaptation. I think I speak for all of us readers when I say that we tend to hold to the sanctity of…
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Review | A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
Read more: Review | A Feast for Crows by George R.R. MartinTitle: A Feast for Crows (2005) Author: George R.R. Martin Publisher: Harper Voyager Read: 19th April – 3rd May 2017 Genre: fantasy Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars In this fourth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, the sheer weight of political machinations and the implications of several key deaths in Westeros slowly begin to take their toll on the…
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Review | American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Read more: Review | American Gods by Neil GaimanTitle: American Gods (2001) Author: Neil Gaiman Publisher: Headline Read: 4th – 10th May 2017 Genre: fantasy; mythology; urban fantasy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars In this wacky and wonderful book, Neil Gaiman draws on a wealth of cultures and mythologies in order to create an engrossing and bizarrely original take on the gods of old. Utterly fantastical and surreal,…
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Friday Reads | 19th May 2017
Read more: Friday Reads | 19th May 2017Another week, another Friday rolls around. You may remember in my last Friday Reads, I was still absorbed in the weird and wonderful world of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods (a review of which will be up later today) and having quite the run of longer books. In wanting to break away from that I decided to pick…
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Tag | My Life in Books Tag
Read more: Tag | My Life in Books TagYou know the drill – it’s Thursday, time for another Tag Thursday etc. etc. I was somewhat struggling to find a tag this week, so I went onto some of my favourite blogs and discovered this short-but-sweet tag courtesy of Stephanie at Adventures of a Bibliophile. This is the My Life In Books tag and let us…
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T5W | Summer Reads
Read more: T5W | Summer ReadsWelcome 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 gingereadslainey and is now overseen by the equally lovely Sam from Thoughts of Tomes. Every Wednesday, participants devise their Top 5 based on a given topic. This…
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Bout of Books 19 | Wrap Up
Read more: Bout of Books 19 | Wrap UpThis past week saw round 19 of Bout of Books readathon happen and I am really, really glad to have taken part in my own very low-key way. At the start of the week I devised a TBR/intentions post and I think I ended up doing pretty well, even if I didn’t get to the…
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Down the TBR Hole #1
Read more: Down the TBR Hole #1I bring you a brand new feature on this blog today and that is Down the TBR Hole. I first saw this via Emma on Emma’s Library and this meme/project was originally created by Lia at Lost in a Story. My TBR has long since been getting out of hand so I think it’s about time I took a…
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