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  • Tome Topple 6 | Sign Up & TBR

    Tome Topple 6 | Sign Up & TBR

    If you’ve been around the blog for any length of time, you will have discerned that I’m quite a fan of a readathon and I’m even more so a fan of Tome Topple as it ditches the frenzied nature of many readathons to instead focus on the longer, weightier books on your TBR. The last Tome…

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  • The Full Monte Readalong | Allons-y!

    The Full Monte Readalong | Allons-y!

    Bonjour, mes amis. ‘What is all this poor French in aid of?’ I hear you ask. Well, mes amis, it’s that time of year again when Laura from Reading In Bed hosts her annual summer readalong. Each year, she picks a daunting classic to tackle over the summer months. Last year, I participated for the…

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  • Review | Eat Up! by Ruby Tandoh

    Review | Eat Up! by Ruby Tandoh

    Title: Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want (2018) Author: Ruby Tandoh Publisher: Serpent’s Tale Read: 10th – 19th June 2018 Genre: non-fiction; cookbooks Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars “Think about that first tickle of hunger in your stomach. A moment ago, you could have been thinking about anything, but now it’s thickly buttered…

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  • Review | Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

    Review | Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

    Title: Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident (2002) Author: Eoin Colfer Publisher: Puffin Read: 7th – 10th June 2018 Genre: children’s; fantasy Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars “Someone has been supplying Class A illegal human power sources to the goblins. Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit is sure that her arch-enemy, thirteen-year-old Artemis Fowl, is…

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  • Tag | Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag

    Tag | Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag

    Greetings one and all, today on this auspicious day I bring you a tag which you may very well have seen floating around A LOT – the Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag. The tag was originally created by Ely and Chami, and it does the rounds at this time of year as all us book…

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  • Down the TBR Hole #22

    Down the TBR Hole #22

    Welcome folks to the twenty-second round of Down the TBR Hole! As I mentioned in my last round of DtTH (nope, that acronym isn’t particularly attractive, is it?), this little project has been a great way of weening down my TBR over the past year so I’ve decided to keep it up and make it a…

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  • Marvel-A-Thon | Progress Report

    Marvel-A-Thon | Progress Report

    Well folks, we’ve reached the mid-way point (or thereabouts) for the Marvel-A-Thon readathon so I thought I’d do an updates post, a progress report if you will, to hold me accountable for what I said I’d read and to also try to reassure me that I have read a lot, even if it doesn’t feel like it…

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  • Tag | Norse Mythology Book Tag

    Tag | Norse Mythology Book Tag

    It’s that time of the week again: it’s Tag Thursday. Hold the applause, please. Considering I’m right in the thick of re-reading (this time via audiobook) Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology and I am quite a fan of an MCU character based on a certain trickster god from the Norse pantheon, I couldn’t not do this tag when I saw…

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  • Review | The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

    Review | The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

    Title: The Hazel Wood (2018) Author: Melissa Albert Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 8th February 2018 Read: 25th – 30th March 2018 Genre: young-adult; fantasy Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars “Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But…

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  • T5W | Summer Reads

    T5W | Summer Reads

    Welcome 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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