Category: books

  • Friday Reads | 20th November

    Last week the unthinkable happened – I actually successfully read every book on my Friday Reads over the course of the weekend. I’m as surprised as anyone. However, none of them were particularly taxing reads, so that’s quite possibly how I managed to actually stick to a TBR for once. This weekend I’m hoping to…

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  • Top Ten Tuesday | Favourite Quotes From Recent Reads

    Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme which was created by The Broke and Bookish and each week those lovely ladies decide on a topic around which you create lists (because who doesn’t love a good list) of ten books that fit the given theme. This week’s topic is: Quotes I Loved From Books I Read In The Past…

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  • Making Up For Monday | 16th November

    Another dreary Monday which means only one thing – I remember that ‘Making Up For Monday‘, a weekly meme created by Tiffany at An Avid Reader, exists and I gladly riff off this week’s prompt which is: What is your favourite book set in the past? Taking a look at my favourites shelf on Goodreads will illustrate that…

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  • Friday Reads | 13th November

    Unsurprisingly I have fallen so far behind with NaNoWriMo that I feel like I’ve stopped trying to catch up. I had put reading on the backburner a little in favour of writing but in the past few days I’ve realised that, if I’m falling behind with writing anyway, I might as well read a little…

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  • T5W | Books You Did Not Finish

    Courtesy of the wonderful Lainey, this week’s Top 5 Wednesday topic is ‘Books You Did Not Finish’. Now, I used to be the sort of reader who diligently stuck with books and soldiered on to the very bitter end, even if I wasn’t enjoying the reading experience one bit. However, lately I’ve realised (and we all come to this…

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  • Making Up For Monday | 19th October

    It’s Monday morning which means only one thing – I remember that ‘Making Up For Monday‘, a weekly meme created by Tiffany at An Avid Reader, exists and I gladly riff off this week’s prompt which is: If you had money to buy a book today, which book would it be? It should come as no surprise that…

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  • Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon: On the Day

    As mentioned in my Intentions post, I’m terrible at sticking to TBRs so this is just the stack of books I’ll be choosing from during the readathon: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo (x) Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (x) Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig (x) The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick…

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  • Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon: Stating My Intentions

    After having known about Dewey’s Readathon for years through watching booktubers’ videos on the day, this is the first year that I’ve actually committed myself to taking on the challenge. I’m under no illusions – I will not be sacrificing sleep (it’s physically impossible for me to keep myself awake for 24 hours, I’ve tried…

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  • Review: Shadow and Bone

    Title: Shadow and Bone [aka The Gathering Dark] (2012) Author: Leigh Bardugo Read: 1st-2nd October Genre: young-adult, high fantasy, paranormal Rating: 3.75/5 Links: Goodreads | Amazon Compulsively readable, that’s one very crucial way to describe the first book in Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy. A high fantasy world loosely modelled on Russia, the novel tentatively and slowly builds the imagery…

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  • Autumn Reads

    There is something of a trend in the book blogging and Booktube world once October rolls around, entirely because of a certain little celebration at the end of the month. Following this theme, most people seem to skew their reading towards the horror or crime or thriller genre. Now, this would be fine, should you enjoy these…

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