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  • Spring Cosy Reading Night | TBR

    Spring Cosy Reading Night | TBR

    Hello, folks! I come to you today with a tentative TBR for the upcoming Cosy Reading Night. This is the Spring round of the Cosy Reading Night and will take place during the hours of 7:00-10:00pm GMT on Friday 20th April and I’m really looking forward to going into my weekend by dedicating an evening to…

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  • Review | Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

    Review | Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

    Title: Artemis Fowl (2001) Author: Eoin Colfer Publisher: Puffin Read: 7th – 10th April 2018 Genre: children’s; fantasy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he’s taking on more than he bargained for…

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  • OWLs Readathon | Progress Report

    OWLs Readathon | Progress Report

    If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed that I am currently taking part in the OWLs Readathon run by Gintare of Book Roast. I found out about the readathon a few days into it so I didn’t have time to post a proper TBR on here, but I did make a Twitter thread…

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  • Review | The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski

    Review | The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski

    Title: The Winner’s Crime (2015) Author: Marie Rutkoski Publisher: Bloomsbury Read: 6th – 12th January 2018 Genre: young-adult; fantasy/dystopia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Lady Kestrel’s engagement to Valoria’s crown prince calls for great celebration: balls and performances, fireworks and revelry. But to Kestrel it means a cage of her own making. Embedded in the imperial…

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  • Review | Circe by Madeline Miller

    Review | Circe by Madeline Miller

    Title: Circe (2018) Author: Madeline Miller Publisher: Bloomsbury Release Date: 19th April 2018 Read: 4th – 13th March 2018 Genre: fantasy; mythology; retelling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of…

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  • T5W | Auto-Buy SFF Authors

    T5W | Auto-Buy SFF Authors

    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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  • Down the TBR Hole #18

    Down the TBR Hole #18

    Welcome folks to the eighteenth 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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  • Feature | Weekend Watching #6

    Feature | Weekend Watching #6

    Welcome one, welcome all, to a new feature to this blog which I have decided to call: Weekend Watching. This will be a hopefully regular post uploaded on Saturdays or Sundays (hence the “weekend watching”) where I talk about a film, TV show, or maybe even YouTube channel/video that I’ve particularly enjoyed recently. I’m hoping to…

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  • Tag | The Shakespeare Book Tag

    Tag | The Shakespeare Book Tag

    You may remember that a few weeks ago I did a guest post all about Coriolanus and the body on the lovely Rosie’s blog for her Simply Shakespeare feature. This week Rosie’s post for Simply Shakespeare was a themed tag and it would feel downright rude of me if I didn’t join in with the…

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  • April TBR

    April TBR

    As you may have seen me mention in my March TBR post, I have a tumultuous history with TBRs since I rarely stick to them 100%. As you can see if you compare my March TBR with my recent March Wrap Up post, my monthly TBR never gets fully defeated without something else catching my eye…

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