This year, as always happens, I read some books that I absolutely loved and, unfortunately, some that I just didn’t get on with. After sharing my favourite books of 2018, I thought it was time to spill the tea on those I really didn’t enjoy. The Beast’s Heart Rating: 2 stars I was hoping to… Continue reading Least favourite books of 2018 // The books I just didn’t fall in love with
May is always a pretty good month for weather in the UK, and I feel like I really made the most of it this month. I went to Sheffield for the early bank holiday and spent a long weekend chilling in parks and having BBQs, then later in the month I met up with blogging… Continue reading May 2018 Wrap Up
Author: Rupi Kaur Pages: 204 Edition: E-book Publication Date: 17th November 2014 Read: April 25th – April 26th 2018 Rating: milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different… Continue reading Poetry review: Milk and Honey
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s theme is: May 15: Books I Disliked/Hated but Am Really Glad I… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books I wasn’t enamoured with but like to name-drop ocassionally
April was a pretty busy and exciting month for me. I visited my sister abroad, went to London, and spent the day at an agricultural festival. It was an energising few weeks, but I did not stick to my TBR. At all. In fact, I think at this point it would be better if we… Continue reading April 2018 Wrap Up (Let’s just pretend I didn’t set myself a TBR, OK)
Last year I read four poetry anthologies, and all four were poignant and intense. I really enjoyed all of them and they reignited my love of poetry enough that I wish I’d managed to read more. So this year I’m making a concerted effort to pick up more collections, and these are a few at… Continue reading Poetry anthologies I want to read this year
After reading Kate Tempest’s Hold Your Own recently, I went to a poetry evening with my parents. Collectively, these two events sparked a reemergence of love for poetry as a form that never fails to give me a quick shot of inspiration straight into the bloodstream. The result of this rekindling of love, is that I’m desperate… Continue reading 5 Poetry Anthologies I NEED to read
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