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  • Friday Reads | 15th July

    Just a quick Friday Reads post from me today where I’ll share what I plan to read this Friday and into the weekend ahead. My reading this week so far has been intermittent at best, so I hope to correct that today and into this weekend. The usual excuses apply: job hunting woes, feeling generally…

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  • Teaser Tuesday | 12th July

    Teaser Tuesday | 12th July

    Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme created at A Daily Rhythm. Its simplicity greatly appeals to me since all that you need to do is grab your current read, open to a random page and share two “teaser” sentences, being careful about spoilers. This week was prompted by the slightly foolhardy decision yesterday to pick up a…

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  • Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag [2016 Edition]

    Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag [2016 Edition]

    Welcome one, welcome all, to the Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag, 2016 edition. Please, hold the applause. Let’s just get this typical response out of the way – I can’t believe it’s already July. There, I said it. Well, actually, that’s genuinely quite scary to me to realise 6 whole months have been and gone. However,…

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  • June 2016 | Reading Wrap-Up

    June 2016 | Reading Wrap-Up

    I can’t believe we’ve already reached July. It’s scary how fast the first half of the year has gone. This June has been… well, interesting to say the least. I finished my job at Teesside University on Tuesday 21st and was suddenly and abruptly very sad to realise I wasn’t going to be working there…

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  • The NY Times By The Book Tag

    The NY Times By The Book Tag

    I saw this tag floating around YouTube months ago but I never actually got round to doing it myself – well today is the day that changes, thanks to the prompting that Shameeka’s blog post provided. The creator of this tag, Marie, devised it around the questions asked of writers in the New York Times’ By…

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  • A Quite Ambitious Summer TBR

    I’m staying in for the summer… No, I know, that’s not quite how the song goes. (If you don’t know the song in question, educate yourself.) The point stands, however, that I will be staying in for most of the following three months. Why? Because summer is possibly my most hated season. Why? Because I live in…

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  • T5W | Literary Fathers/Father Figures

    Welcome one, welcome all, to ‘Emma Remembers Top 5 Wednesdays Exists And Decides To Join In’. We all know how this show goes… but, for those who are unaware, Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme/challenge which was created by the wonderful Lainey from gingereadslainey and is now overseen by the equally lovely Sam from Thoughts of Tomes.…

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  • Top Ten Tuesday | Anticipated 2016 Releases

    Another Tuesday, another Top Ten Tuesday. For those who don’t know, Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the book bloggers and list lovers, The Broke and the Bookish, and each week they post a topic for bloggers to respond to. This week’s theme is about getting excited for all the great books due out in…

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  • Friday Reads | 10th June

    Just a quick Friday Reads post from me today where I’ll share what I plan to read this Friday and into the weekend ahead. It will be no surprise to learn that I’m still working my way through A Game of Thrones (slow but steady wins the race, right?) for the #readasoiaf readalong and I…

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  • Review | The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild

    Review | The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild

    Title: The Improbability of Love (2015) Author: Hannah Rothschild Read:  11th-20th May 2016 Genre: contemporary; literary fiction; historical fiction Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Hannah Rothschild’s Bailey’s Prize shortlisted novel is done a disservice by its generic categorisation and cover (as lovely as they all are) and her story unfolds to be much, much more than a love…

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