Top Ten: Winter TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. My winter TBR plans are usually scuppered by me desperately trying to meet my reading target over the holidays*, but here are ten books I’d like to get round to reading soon! It’s a…
The Amber Spyglass
I’ve finished my His Dark Materials re-read and I’m so glad I did pick them up again. They’ve made me look forward to La Belle Sauvage so much more. The Amber Spyglass is the final part of the trilogy but probably my least favourite. Maybe…
#NonficNov: Making of a Favourite
This week’s prompt is hosted by Doing Dewey and is all about what it takes to get a place on the non-fiction favourites shelf. We’ve talked about how you pick nonfiction books in previous years, but this week I’m excited to talk about what makes…
One of Us is Lying
One of Us is Lying is loosely based on The Breakfast Club, but with a more sinister edge. There’s the geek, the jock, the criminal, the prom queen and the outsider. Five enter detention but only four leave alive. I read this during readathon and…
My Indie TBR
Bex @ Ninja Book Box is challenging herself to buy only independently published books next year. I am rubbish at such buying restrictions and I do want to read more of my TBR in 2018, so I may just stick to pledging to buy one…
This Mortal Coil
You know when someone has lots of cool ideas of future tech and projections about what life could be like in the future, so they think they’ll write book about it? I have loads of those ideas but I also know my limitations and couldn’t…
Short Reads, Short Reviews
This is pretty much a catch-up post for a bunch of comics and novellas I’ve read over the past few months. I find these hard to review fully sometimes without giving too much away, so here are some brief thoughts. Links go to Goodreads if…
Win Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe!
Let Melissa de la Cruz get you in the festive spirit with her new book, Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe. You guessed it, it’s a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice with a Christmas twist from the author of Something in Between and the Blue…
#NonficNov: Book Pairings
This week’s Nonfiction November prompt, hosted by Sarah’s Book Shelves, is book pairings . I love finding out more about the real aspects of novels I read. I have read a lot more fantasy lately so had to scrape the barrel for related novels this…
Black Sun
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. The opening line may seem like something any mother would tell her son, but in the case of Serapio, his mother truly believes he will become the Crow God reborn. She blinds him,…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Just let me dust off this blog thing, I have a review for you! One of my anticipated reads released during lockdown was the follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. If you read that, of course will will be dying to know what happened to…