It’s Christmas Eve, which means it’s the final day of Blogmas! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my first Blogmas and thought I’d close it out, after yesterday’s Worst Books I’ve Read This Year post, with the best books I’ve read this year. These are all books I gave 5 stars too, which doesn’t happen all that often, and they were… Continue reading Blogmas Day 24: The best books I’ve read in 2017
With only 8 days left of 2017, I was ruminating on the poetry, graphic novels, short stories, and novels I’ve read this year. Some of them have been wonderful and uplifting. Some have been exciting and action-packed. But some have been pretty poor. So as we all do towards the end of the year,… Continue reading Blogmas Day 23: The worst books I’ve read in 2017
If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that fantasy is my favourite genre and I get so much joy out of picking up new books with magic, dragons, and mystical worlds. Of all the books I’ve read this year, these were my five favourites. A Conjuring of Light I could easily have… Continue reading Blogmas Day 17: Five favourite fantasies I’ve read this year
If I’m being generous with myself, I’d say that this is a list of books that I’m still incredibly excited about but was too overambitious with my monthly TBRs to get to this year. But, if I’m being honest, I’d say that this is my shame list. These are the books I intended to read… Continue reading Blogmas Day 16: Books I meant to read this year but accidentally didn’t (whoops)
Author: Becky Albertalli Pages: 336 Edition: Paperback Publication date: April 11th 2017 Read: 9th – 12th December Rating: TWs: Fatphobia, homophobia, discrimination against religion and race. (These issues are all challenged and dealt with in a positive manner.) Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love—she’s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and… Continue reading Blogmas Day 14 – Book review: The Upside of Unrequited
Sometimes, when I begin a new series, I manage to buy or borrow all of the books in a short space of time and finish it within a few weeks/months. But, more often than not, I’ll pick up other books in between, and leave the second and third books for months and months. These are… Continue reading Blogmas Day 7: Series I NEED to finish next year
Author: Sasha Alsberg & Lindsay Cummings Pages: 512 Edition: ARC paperback Publication date: January 16th 2018 Read: 16th October – 24th October Rating: Most know Androma Racella as the Bloody Baroness, a powerful mercenary whose reign of terror stretches across the Mirabel Galaxy. To those aboard her glass starship, Marauder, however, she’s just Andi, their friend… Continue reading Blogmas Day 2 – ARC review: Zenith
It’s December first, which means the first day of Advent (yassss chocolate!) and the first day of Blogmas. I’ve never done Blogmas before, but decided to do it this year because it sounds like a lot of fun, and I wanted the challenge of posting every day for 24 days. The posts I have planned… Continue reading Blogmas Day 1: Festive Reads
Recently, with the floods in India, earthquakes in Mexico, and hurricanes devastating Dominica, Puerto Rico, and other islands in the Caribbean, I’ve been thinking a lot about how much of our lives revolve around physical possessions, and how lucky we are to be able to own books. Most of us will live in countries where… Continue reading Bookish Discussions: The Privilege of Owning Books
Every now and then when my TBR gets over 250 books and I realise it’s become way too unwieldy, I go through and remove books that have been on there for a long time and I’m not too bothered about reading any more. In my recent cull, these were some of the books that I… Continue reading TBR Unhaul: Books I’ve Recently Removed From My Goodreads TBR
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