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Wrap Up | August 2018
Read more: Wrap Up | August 2018Welcome one, welcome all, to my August Wrap Up. Life wise, August has been a bit of a non-month. Nothing terrible happened, nothing amazing and new happened. It’s very much the month of transition, as summer has its last gasp and we begin to head into Autumn. For me, August has been the month of…
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Discussion | My Relationship with Exercise (inspired by Eat Sweat Play by Anna Kessel)
Read more: Discussion | My Relationship with Exercise (inspired by Eat Sweat Play by Anna Kessel)This is a post I didn’t ever think I’d have cause to write, particularly not on a bookish blog, but I suppose it’s been bottled up inside of me for long enough for me to need to get it all out of my system. And, as you will see by the time you (/if you,…
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Review | Theatrical by Maggie Harcourt
Read more: Review | Theatrical by Maggie HarcourtTitle: Theatrical (2018) Author: Maggie Harcourt Publisher: Usborne Read: 13th – 16th August 2018 Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars “Hope dreams of working backstage in a theatre, and she’s determined to make it without the help of her famous costume-designer mum. So when she lands an internship on a major production, she tells…
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Review | Giant Days by Non Pratt
Read more: Review | Giant Days by Non PrattTitle: Giant Days (2018) Author: Non Pratt Publisher: ABRAMS Kids/Amulet Books Release Date: 21st August 2018 Read: 3rd – 4th August 2018 Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Based on the hit graphic-novel series from BOOM! Studios, the publisher behind Lumberjanes, Giant Days follows the hilarious and heartfelt misadventures of three university first-years: Daisy, the…
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NEWTs Readathon | Progress Report #3
Read more: NEWTs Readathon | Progress Report #3I know, I know, it’s late, this post is probably late, and my blogging game on the whole has been seriously lacking these past couple of weeks. I could make up plenty of excuses but what it comes down to is that I’ve just lacked motivation. All that being said, I have been reading so…
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Bout of Books 23 | Sign Up & TBR
Read more: Bout of Books 23 | Sign Up & TBRHola all, coming at you today with a sign up and TBR post for yet another readathon. I am obviously still participating in the month-long NEWTs Readathon, but it just so happens that the next round of Bout of Books is this week and it would be rude to neglect one in favour of the…
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The Full Monte Readalong | Week Six
Read more: The Full Monte Readalong | Week SixBonsoir mes amis et bienvenue sur le blog pour la sixième et dernière semaine du ‘Le Comte de Monte Cristo’. For those unaware of the reason for my (frankly shoddy) French, I took part in Laura from Reading In Bed‘s 2018 summer readalong for Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. To catch up with previous weeks, check…
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NEWTs Readathon | Progress Report #2
Read more: NEWTs Readathon | Progress Report #2Howdy folks. It’s been a little while hasn’t it? I dropped off the face of the blogging world for a week or so because last weekend I went home and did… pretty much nothing, just hung out a little bit with family and that was it. As nice as that was, it meant I didn’t…

