Love your books, break their spines
Day 2 of the week long Bout of Books reathathon is now over so here is my progress so far. On Tuesday I didn't get as much of The Historian read as I expected but I did pick out an audiobook so I could keep making reading progress at work. That audiobook was 20,000 Leagues… Continue reading Thoughts & Progress: Bout of Books Day 2
Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by the brilliant Bionic Bookworm. Check her out if you are not following her already. I was very very bad last year. I bought mountains of books and even went as far as to put some of them on my currently list on Goodreads but did I read them? No! I… Continue reading Top 5 Tuesday: Top 5 books on my 2018 bucket list
This is probably going to ruffle a LOT feathers but....Comic book YA novels WTF I have noticed a new trend in bookshops and in the book world that really bothers me: Novels about comic book characters. Normally I would write these off as those crappy novel versions of recent films with horrific movie covers that… Continue reading Discussion: Comic Book YA Novels
Cannibalism, killer corsets and birds that eat eyes, welcome to the fun real world of fairy tales. If you don't want some of your Disney princesses ruined (not many of them because I could write several posts on princesses alone) maybe look away now. Here is a short list of some of my favourite fairy… Continue reading Fairy Tales with Horrible Endings
I orginally was going to give Bout of Books a miss this month but I have been on such a good reading kick this week I though why not? It couldn't hurt to sign up, right? I was planning on reading a lot anyway. If you don’t already know Bout of Books is a readathon… Continue reading Bout of Books 21: TBR
Summary: "A congressman's daughter who has to be perfect. A star quarterback with a secret. A guy who's tired of being ignored. A clarinet player who's done trying to fit in. An orphaned rebel who wants to teach someone a lesson. A guy who wants people to see him, not his religion.They couldn't be more different, but before… Continue reading Waiting for Wednesday: Time Bomb by Joelle Charbonneau
Happy New Year! And, to the pile of new followers I somehow got during the Christmas break when I wasn't blogging, welcome. A new year means new targets for the year, bookish resolutions and lots of general reflections on the past blogging year so here are my bookish resolutions for 2018. Read 105 Books I… Continue reading 2018 Reading Goals and Blogging Resolutions
This is a special edition of Top 5 Tuesday to say a big thank you to the creator and organiser of Top 5 Tuesday, Shanah aka Bionic Bookworm. Every month Shanah takes time out of her busy mum and business owner schedule to think up a list of topics for us bloggers to write about… Continue reading Top 5 ‘Top 5 Tuesdays’ of 2017
2017 has been one hell of a blogging year. I have actually been running this blog since 2014. Back then I was trying to fit in with all of the other book bloggers out there but it was dull and I didn't post very often because I was bored and felt like my posts were… Continue reading Blog Reflections 2017
There are only 10 days left of 2017. That means lots of reminiscing about the events of the last year and book bloggers are compiling lists of the best books they have read over the last 365 days. I love reading Best Reads of the Year posts because they contain the best of the best… Continue reading Top 5 Reads of 2017
Spine Cracker 