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  • Review | Carol by Patricia Highsmith

    Review | Carol by Patricia Highsmith

    Title: Carol/The Price of Salt (1952) Author: Patricia Highsmith Publisher: Bloomsbury Read: 21st – 24th February 2018 Genre: romance; LGBTQ Rating: 3 out of 5 stars “Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is…

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  • Review | The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

    Review | The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

    Title: The Upside of Unrequited (2017) Author: Becky Albertalli Publisher: Penguin Read: 11th – 13th February 2018 Genre: young-adult; contemporary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars “Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly is always careful. Better to be careful than be…

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  • T5W | Favourite Book Spines

    T5W | Favourite Book Spines

    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 #16

    Down the TBR Hole #16

    Welcome folks to the sixteenth 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 #5

    Feature | Weekend Watching #5

    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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  • March TBR

    March TBR

    Sooo I have a fraught relationship with TBRs – I’m generally good at sticking to them if it’s for a short-term thing, i.e. a readathon, but if it’s a month-long or (worse still) year-long, I promptly forget about every single book I wanted to read as soon as I write it down on some form…

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  • Wrap Up | February 2018

    Wrap Up | February 2018

    All in all, February has been a pretty damn good month – I’ve got around to reading some books that I’ve been meaning to read for months/years at this point and, personally speaking, life is just pretty good. The January blues seemed far behind as I officially signed a contract for my promotion at work …

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  • Top Ten Tuesday | Books I Could Re-read Forever

    Top Ten Tuesday | Books I Could Re-read Forever

    Welcome 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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  • Tag | Reading Habits Book Tag

    Tag | Reading Habits Book Tag

    Evening all! I bring something slightly out of the ordinary today – I bring you a tag. But, Emma, I hear you say, this isn’t Thursday so surely this isn’t a Tag Thursday?!? No, you’re right, it’s not, but my tentative posting schedule no longer sees me post on Thursday so we’ll have to make…

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  • Feature | Weekend Watching #4

    Feature | Weekend Watching #4

    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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