How is it Monday again please? Today's Mini Reviews is YA Fantasy, so I can at least pretend it's not Monday. A Heart so Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer This is the sequel to A Curse So Dark and Lonely, and this book is much more about Grey than it is Harper and Rhen.... Continue Reading →
Six for Sunday: Favourite Colour
Hello! Happy Sunday! Today is the last week of Let's Celebrate Colour with #SixforSunday , a weekly bookish prompt hosted by the lovely Steph! This week we're doing favourite colours and mine is purple. I love purple things, especially purple book covers. Again, I've gone with books from my TBR that I haven't read yet,... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Afterlove by Tanya Byrne
"If there's once thing I've learnt doing this, it's that in that moment, when all the years you thought you had ahead of you dissolve into a few seconds, why doesn't matter. What matters is who you'll leave behind and I get that more than anyone, believe me." That. Cover. Though. How gorgeous?Click here for... Continue Reading →
ThursTag: The Summer Tag
Thursday is tag day! It's also the last week of the school summer holidays for here, and I'm on leave, so it's the perfect week to do the Summer Tag, which, naturally, I stole from Steph's blog. Lemonade: Pick a book that started off bitter but then got better. This is basically copying Steph's answer,... Continue Reading →
Coffee and… A Bookish August
I do not know how we have gotten to the end of another month, and yet here we are! Join me in a coffee? The Coffee: This week's coffee is from a new supplier: Pact coffee. We had something of a bean emergency recently and placed a last minute order with them. The beans arrived... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Key to Finding Jack by Ewa Jozefkowiz
""What are the facts, Flick?" I heard Jack's voice in my ear. "These are the facts, Jack," I said aloud into the cold winter air." Click here for the book information on Goodreads. Today I am reviewing The Key to Finding Jack by Ewa Jozefkowiz, which was kindly sent to me by the publishers in... Continue Reading →
Mini Reviews: Brilliant Middle Grades
Today's Mini Reviews features three amazing Middle Grade books I read in the last few months: Storm Witch by Ellen Renner, The Mask of Aribella by Anna Hoghton,and The House of One Hundred Clocks by A.M. Howell. Storm Witch by Ellen Renner This is one of the books the boys bought me for Christmas. I... Continue Reading →
Six for Sunday: Autumn Colours
I have no idea how it is already Sunday again! But here we are, with another seasonal prompt from the Queen of Sundays, Steph. Six for Sunday is a weekly bookish prompt hosted by Steph from A Little But A Lot. If you're not already following her, check out her blog and correct this error... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.I am not a muse.I am the somebody.End of fucking story.” Click here for the book information on Goodreads. Daisy Jones and the Six is the story of a famous 70s band (fictional, alas), their rise to fame, and their dramatic split. It's also the story... Continue Reading →
ThursTag: The Racing to Read Tag
Apparently this tag was part of Reading Rush, but I was not involved in that, and like all my tags, I pinched this from Steph because I liked the prompts. Warm Up: A book that stretches your mind. Anything non-fiction, especially when it's expanding my knowledge of a subject. Most recently I have read Open... Continue Reading →