Category: books

  • Book Travelling Thursdays | Favourite Series Conclusion

    Book Travelling Thursdays is a weekly meme for book bloggers which celebrates the distance a book travels around the world through its covers in different countries. It was created by Cátia and Danielle and you can visit the Goodreads group for more information. This week’s topic is Everything has an end! Choose your favourite conclusion to a series. Now, given my…

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  • #TBRTakedown 3.5 Wrap-Up

    #TBRTakedown 3.5 Wrap-Up

    TBR Takedown 3.5 happened this past weekend so I thought it was high time to do a little wrap-up of how the readathon went for me. For anyone who doesn’t know, TBR Takedown is a readathon hosted by Shannon from the booktube channel leaninglights – you can find her TBR video for the readathon here. This…

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  • Review | The Butcher’s Hook by Janet Ellis

    Review | The Butcher’s Hook by Janet Ellis

    Title: The Butcher’s Hook (2016) Author: Janet Ellis Read: 7th-9th April 2016 Genre: historical fiction; romance Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Janet Ellis’ début has been variously described as bold, dark, weird, and brutal – all of these adjectives suit the first-time author’s historical fiction romance but still don’t quite do justice to its brash and unapologetic narrative. ”…

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  • Book Travelling Thursdays | Siblings

    Book Travelling Thursdays | Siblings

    Book Travelling Thursdays is a weekly meme for book bloggers which celebrates the distance a book travels around the world through its covers in different countries. It was created by Catia and Danielle and you can visit the Goodreads group for more information. This week’s topic is related to siblings: National Siblings Day is a few days away. Choose a…

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  • #TBRTakedown 3.5

    #TBRTakedown 3.5

    Today I bring you my intentions for a little readathon called TBR Takedown 3.5. TBR Takedown is hosted by Shannon from leaninglights and this round of the readathon will run from midnight on 8th April until midnight on 10th April. For more information you can watch Shannon’s TBR video or check out the readathon Twitter. I like the format…

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  • Review | Shades of Milk & Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

    Review | Shades of Milk & Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

    Title: Shades of Milk & Honey (Glamourist Histories #1) Author: Mary Robinette Kowal Read: 8th-10th March Genre: historical fiction; fantasy; romance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Mary Robinette Kowal’s Shades of Milk and Honey is the first book in her Glamourist Histories series, a set of novels which answer the surely proverbial question – what kind of stories would Jane…

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  • Tag | The Intimidating TBR Pile

    Tag | The Intimidating TBR Pile

    I’ve seen this tag from a few bloggers and booktubers and today I happen to be very much in the mood of ‘jesus I own a lot of books’, which seems the perfect time to confront the problem head-on and do The Intimidating TBR Pile tag. I was indirectly tagged by Sarah at Sarah’s Chapter…

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  • T5W | Fictional Items I Want

    After a few weeks of no-shows for Top 5 Wednesday, I am firmly back on the bandwagon. For those who are unaware, Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme/challenge organised by the wonderful Lainey, in which participants devise their Top 5 books based on a given topic – because who doesn’t love a good list? This week’s topic is…

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  • A Cumulative Book Haul

    I’ve started to flip between feeling immense guilt for spending money on books when I’m trying to save money for the future and between thinking BUT BOOKS – it’s a dilemma I’m sure most book lovers can appreciate. Documenting all the books I’ve accumulated since Christmas will hopefully illustrate to me how much of a…

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  • Book Travelling Thursdays | Heroines

     Book Traveling Thursdays is a weekly meme for book bloggers which celebrates the distance a book travels by way of its covers. I’ve only recently discovered this meme thanks to the blog of the co-creator, Catia (the other being Danielle) and the Goodreads group, but I love the concept of it – particularly because it gives me the…

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