Category: books

  • Bookish Separation Anxiety

    I get separation anxiety. And no, I am not talking about the anxiety felt knowing that my family, including one very cute nephew who is much missed when he’s not throwing himself onto my bed as my very own unsilenceable alarm clock, is on the other side of this blessedly small country.  I am not…

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  • Video: The Classics Book Tag

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmv-PdwvE0g A day may come when I will learn where to look when I film – but it is not this day. In the meantime, have a Classics Book Tag video. I had fun with this tag, it’s right up my alley. If you’re interested in classics, you should definitely consider answering the questions too,…

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  • March In Review ¦ The More Fun Stuff

    If you read the first part to this March In Review post I can only congratulate you for being such a caring person that you read my inane and self-absorbed chatter about my very insignificant life, or else I’ll become suspicious that you are procrastinating writing an essay or studying and merely using my blog…

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  • Video: Friday Reads ¦ 3rd April

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbwlwtbT4U I wasn’t enjoying my face today so I tried something different. Once again Emma wants to be more artistically and aesthetically inclined than her sub-par camera on her phone will allow – story of my life there tbh. But nevertheless, Friday Reads time!

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  • Video: Friday Reads + Book Haul

    I decided to blow the dust off the YouTube channel and make a Friday Reads / February Book Haul video, wow, such joy, such excitement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdmxOLkRyb8 Please note: my phone just will not cooperate so that my poorly planned videos can at least look properly lit and half-decent quality. So, failing that, I tried my…

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  • Top Ten Tuesday ¦ Books I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read

    What’s this, what’s this, Emma is completely and shamelessly jumping on a bandwagon? Yes, hello, I’ll make myself comfortable and explain. Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and Bookish (two descriptors could not be more apt), and it is a weekly meme in which you create lists (because who doesn’t love a good…

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  • January Reading Wrap-Up

    The books I read in January were minimal to say the least. However I didn’t start reading anything properly really until the last couple of weeks of January, once module essay deadlines had passed. So, considering that, I’m fairly okay with how much I read in January, most of it was necessary reading for university…

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  • Friday Reads ¦ 23rd January 2015

    I think everyone knows the drill now – if not literally check my previous post which explains. This is a Friday Reads post about my reading intentions for this weekend. Let’s not waste precious time or space… Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe (x) The only Marlowe I’ve read previously (and I forgot it was even Marlowe, whoops) is Edward…

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  • Friday Reads ¦ 16th January 2015

    I think people know the drill but just in case you don’t… in Friday Reads you basically discuss the books you plan to read this weekend, expectations, hopes etc. Some people extend this to mean the books they’ll be reading all week and I always intend to cover just what I’ll be reading at the…

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  • 2015 Bookish Resolutions

    2015 Bookish Resolutions

    Well 2014 has come and gone – where the hell has it gone? seriously, I want a do-over – and though now might be the time for reflection, it is also the time to look onwards and maybe upwards. The cynic in me cannot allow me to be as optimistic and peppy about the dawn…

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