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War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week One
Read more: War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | Week OneWelcome one, welcome all, to the first of my weekly progress reports proper for War and Peace. You may have seen my first post from last week but this is the real deal, week 1, actual words of War and Peace have been read. For those unaware, I’m taking part in the War and Peace Newbies Read-along, as hosted by Laura from Reading In…
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2017 Book Haul #4
Read more: 2017 Book Haul #4Here we are, a mere 5 weeks after from my Book Haul #3 and I have another stack of books. No one is surprised. Once again I hate myself for having bought this many books. But will I ever learn?! Probably not. So, for the foreseeable future, I will continue to haul books and hate myself inside a…
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Tag | Summer Reader Book Tag
Read more: Tag | Summer Reader Book TagGuys, it’s Thursday, you know the drill by now – it’s time for Tag Thursday. I saw this tag (obviously) over on Thrice Read because I just rob all of their tag posts nowadays. This tag was created by Dri at islandOFdri on Youtube so head on over to her channel to check out the original video,…
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War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | It’s Go Time
Read more: War and Peace Newbies Read-Along | It’s Go TimeSince we’re in this for the long haul, I thought I would introduce a weekly feature to my blog in which, every Monday, I will be looking back at how I’ve done in the past week with reading the one, the only, the mammoth that is Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. For those unaware, I’m taking…
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My 2017 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #2
Read more: My 2017 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #2Greetings folks! Today I bring you the second of my quarterly check-ins on my 2017 Resolutions. As you may, or may not (I often don’t!), remember, I set some resolutions or goals for this year. I do it every year and every year, without fail, I forget my goals unless I keep them on a…
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June 2017 | Wrap Up
Read more: June 2017 | Wrap UpWell, here we are in July and can I just join the chorus of people saying that they have no idea how the heck it’s July already? Because it does not feel like 6 months have passed of in 2017. Although that does mean we’re closer to Christmas than we are away from it – yay!…
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Tag | Days of the Week Book Tag
Read more: Tag | Days of the Week Book TagYou lovely folks know the drill by now – it’s time for another Tag Thursday! This week’s tag is brought to you by Thrice Read (again, I know, but seriously they participate in the best tags) and it is called the Days of the Week Book Tag! I added a gif for each response too because,…
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Top Ten Tuesday | Best Books I’ve Read in 2017 (So Far)
Read more: Top Ten Tuesday | Best Books I’ve Read in 2017 (So Far)Well, we’ve reached the midpoint of the year which means it’s time to take a cursory look back at how our reading has been going so far. All in all, I’m having a great year of reading – I’m getting in some re-reads, rediscovering my love for some of my previous favourites (see: Sabriel by Garth Nix),…
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TBR | Harry Potter Cosy Reading Night
Read more: TBR | Harry Potter Cosy Reading NightGreetings witches and wizards, today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone! Since that very first opening line “Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much” the Harry Potter books have gone on to sell over 450 million…
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Review | Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Read more: Review | Conversations with Friends by Sally RooneyTitle: Conversations with Friends (2017) Author: Sally Rooney Publisher: Faber & Faber Read: 20th – 22nd June 2017 Genre: contemporary; adult Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars Set in modern-day Dublin, Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends ostensibly tells the tale of Frances and Bobbi, ex-girlfriends and spoken word poets who find themselves befriending photographer/journalist Melissa and her actor husband…
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