Earlier this year I took part in Simon Savidge’s first #BookHiBearNation and really loved it! Now it’s time for the summer edition - a whole week long! Huzzah! - and here’s what I’ve got planned for the week…
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Let's Chat... Summer Reading Plans
What with the current situation, my usual summer reading habits have somewhat gone out of the window. So I’m thinking about what my reading is going to look like in this, the weirdest summer so far…
The Reading Rush 2020!
I’ve heard of the Reading Rush before, but usually part-way through so I’ve not participated. This year, though, I remembered it existed in time to get properly prepped for the prompts! And so here are my plans for the Reading Rush 2020…
My Favourite Booktubers!
I’ve recently been spending a lot more time on booktube, and I’ve discovered some fab accounts! These are the booktubers that I get super excited by every time I see a new video has dropped on their channel.
Books That Make Me Smile
I was so happy when I saw this prompt, because I have been reading so many joyous books over the past few months! This is basically my list of happy comfort reads, and ones I’d recommend if you need cheering up or just want to enjoy all the happy and heartwarming vibes!
REVIEW: The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly, by Jamie Pacton
I was recently loaned a copy of this by my wonderful friend Mary, and couldn’t believe I’d never heard of it before! And with a tagline like ‘Joust like a girl’, I couldn’t possibly resist seeing what this book was all about…
My Favourite Books of 2020 So Far!
As if the Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag wasn’t enough, I really wanted to do a wrap-up of my favourite books so far in 2020 because I think there are some that missed out on my earlier tag! So here are my top ten books of 2020 so far, in no particular order…
REVIEW: Loveless by Alice Oseman
A very happy book birthday to Alice Oseman’s fourth novel, Loveless. This has been one of my most hyped books of 2020, so now I’ve read it I thought it was absolutely time for a review!
Authors I’ve Read the Most Books By
I really liked the prompt for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday - an excuse to flail about the authors I’ve read the most of! If you like this post, I also did my auto-buy authors post here a few weeks ago. I found this a really interesting exercise because of course I’ve ordered this by number of books read rather than how much I love them. Intriguing!
My July TBR + Reading Plans!
Last month was such a good month for reading, so I am super keen to make July just as good! Here’s what I'm hoping for from my reading in July…
The Hamilton Book Tag!
I saw this post on the lovely Aoife’s blog and given that I spent earlier today watching (and internally yelling) about Hamilton, I thought what better to do on the blog than the Hamilton book tag!
#ReadATonne Readathon, Vol. 2: 3rd-5th July
This weekend I’m running another #ReadATonne readathon to kick-start my July reading. It’s easy - a whole weekend of reading whatever the heck you want, with the purpose of the readathon being to just get as much reading done as you can.
The Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag!
Why yes, I am doing the tag you’re already sick of seeing… It’s the Mid-Year Book Freakout tag! It was really lovely, actually, to look back over what I’ve read so far this year. Lockdown has been great for one thing, and it’s how many books I’ve read!
Here’s the highlights…
My June Book Haul!
June has been a MONTH for buying and borrowing books, oh my goodness. I got very carried away. So much so that I felt I needed to collate them all here in a blog post! I also got the most humungous stack of loaner books from the fantastic Fox Benwell, and I’ll pop my faves in here, as that stack could be a whole separate blog post, it’s so epic!
Here’s what I got in June…
Author Q&A: Jennifer Bell chats 'Wonderscape'!
I’m so excited for today’s blog post, because it’s all about one of my favourite new middle grade books: Wonderscape by Jennifer Bell! Jennifer was kind enough to (virtually) sit down with me to chat about all things Wonderscape to celebrate Indie Bookshop Week.
My Auto-Buy Authors
This week, Top Ten Tuesday celebrates turning 10, and so I chose an old prompt from the archives to do this week - authors I always pre-order books from! These are my real faves, and authors I know I can depend on for a really great read.
Favourite LGBT+ Romances
This week on #SixForSunday it’s all things LGBT+ Romances! I’m aware that this could be quite spoiler-y, so please proceed with caution! But here are some of my favourite queer romances.
It's Independent Bookshop Week!
Happy Independent Bookshop Week! This is one of my favourite weeks of the year, where usually I’d make a point of getting to as many of my favourite indie bookshops as possible. But given the current situation, I thought instead I’d highlight some of my favourite indie bookshops, and encourage you to all order from your indie where you can!
Books On My Summer 2020 TBR
This is actually really early for me to set myself a summer 2020 TBR! Usually I sit down in the first week of the summer holidays, set myself a stack for the summer, and off I go. So I suppose this TBR is a list of the books that will tide me over until the summer break…
Let's Chat... MG in to YA Fantasy Fiction.
Hello! So I was thinking about quite a few different bookish things the other day, and figured that rather than writing twitter threads at 11pm when I can’t always trust my brain and my typing to match up, I’d try writing an actual blog post every time I think about something that I can’t fit in to a tweet.
So get yourself a cuppa, and let’s get chatting!