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Wrap Up | September 2018
Read more: Wrap Up | September 2018Welcome one, welcome all, to my September Wrap Up. As a month, September was pretty great for one key reason – I started off the month with a quick jaunt to Barcelona, a city I’ve never been to before despite having frequented coastal Spanish towns for yearly family holidays since I was 18 months. How…
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Discussion | When Childhood Favourites Are Republished
Read more: Discussion | When Childhood Favourites Are RepublishedThis post comes to you from nostalgia, which I’ve just been hit full in the face with, due to seeing the Matilda at 30 marketing. For those unaware, to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the book, Puffin have teamed up with illustrator Quentin Blake to produce special editions of Roald Dahl’s Matilda with brand new covers,…
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Review | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Read more: Review | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ReidTitle: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017) Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Publisher: Simon & Schuster Read: 3rd – 10th September 2018 Genre: historical fiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. When she chooses unknown magazine…
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T5W | Favourite Covers
Read more: T5W | Favourite CoversWelcome 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 gingerreadslainey and is now overseen by the equally lovely Sam from Thoughts on Tomes. Every Wednesday, participants devise their Top 5 based on a given topic. This Wednesday’s…
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Top Ten Tuesday | Books By My Favourite Authors That I Still Haven’t Read
Read more: Top Ten Tuesday | Books By My Favourite Authors That I Still Haven’t ReadWelcome 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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Victober 2018 | Sign Up & TBR
Read more: Victober 2018 | Sign Up & TBRHello lovely people! Can you believe that next week it will be October?? I know, I know, take a minute to really let that sink in – the tenth month of the year is dawning. Finished reeling from that realisation? No? Me neither, but let’s distract ourselves from the horror of time passing too quickly…
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Tag | Fall Book Tag
Read more: Tag | Fall Book TagCan you smell that? It’s the smell of encroaching crispy leaves falling off trees and Starbucks churning out PSLs. That’s right, it’s Fall – or, Autumn, as we English people say. And in celebration of this transitional season into the best of the year (Winter, obviously), I’ve found a book tag, the aptly names Fall…
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Catharsis | On “Friends’ Weddings”
Read more: Catharsis | On “Friends’ Weddings”Catharsis: noun ca·thar·sis \ kə-ˈthär-səs \ 1 a : purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art b : a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension 2 : elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression I’ve always been the person who over-thinks…
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September TBR
Read more: September TBRYou all know I don’t consistently post TBR lists, but this month I feel like I need to, because it’s already 12 days into September and I haven’t made enough progress on my hastily scribbled TBR list. I actually always draw up a monthly TBR in my bujo at the end of the previous month,…
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Review | Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Read more: Review | Six of Crows by Leigh BardugoTitle: Six of Crows (2016) Author: Leigh Bardugo Publisher: Hachette Children’s Group/Orion Read: 2nd – 6th June 2018 Genre: young-adult; fantasy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams – but he can’t pull it off alone. A…
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