I’m a little late to the party, but June is Pride Month! During the month of June every year, all over the world, people have a chance to celebrate LGBTQ+ and gender non-conforming people and communities. There are festivals, parades, events and, in the bookish community, we like to celebrate by drawing attention to READ MORE
Year: 2022
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN TO POST A REVIEW?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Yes. Definitely. I don’t really have a schedule for reviewing books – back when I reviewed for publishers I don’t think I ever missed a review that needed to be posted by a particular date. But now that I am reviewing just out of interest, I will often put aside a review and READ MORE
BOOK BLOGGER HOP | HOW DO YOU WRITE REVIEWS?
Well, the weekly link-up I used to participate in on Wednesdays seems to have disappeared (I’d link you, but it’s a blank page now, so there’s really no point!). On the plus side, it gave me a reason to look around for a new link-up or two to try. I’ll be giving Book Blogger READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | DESIGN YOUR PERFECT WEDDING
Okay, so here’s the thing. I’m not a wedding person. I didn’t dream of white dresses and veils when I was a kid. I didn’t plan the ceremony and reception down to the last detail. I don’t really like romance novels (I just don’t buy them most of the time) and, quite frankly, I’m READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS WITH A UNIT OF TIME IN THE TITLE
This one threw me at first. I’ve got to be honest, I’ve never actually noticed how many books do have a unit of time (minute, hour, day, year) in the title. There are surprisingly quite a few just in the images saved to my blog! So here are the ones I could (lazily find) READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It’s been a little while since I’ve done a Monday post, so I’m going to include everything I’ve read since the last one! I haven’t finished any books in this past week, so these are all historic. Just Shelved: Both of these were for the last round of the BookTube Prize, READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | UNSETTLED GROUND – CLAIRE FULLER
This is the third book I read for the BookTube Prize‘s Quarterfinals. It’s a fairly simple story, that of a brother and sister who have been sheltered and kept largely separate from the world around them by their mother. They grow most of what they need, and scrounge enough money to pay bills by READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | A BOOK SET IN MY TOWN
If this prompt had been a movie or TV show filmed in my town, it would have been so, so easy. I live in Vancouver, better known as Hollywood North. I’m used to picking out familiar streets and landmarks while watching (some shows and movies that were easy to spot as Vancouver or the READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | COMFORT READS
This is a great prompt. I love reading for comfort, and I have so many books that are like old friends I can return to anytime I want, particularly when life is feeling dreary, doom-laden or just plan boring. Here are some of my favourite comfort reads! READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | (ONE) FAVOURITE BOOK QUOTE
I don’t usually write down quotes from books. I notice them, sometimes I add a page marker that will inevitably get stuck on another book when I put the one I’ve just read back on the shelf and end up marking a random page of a book I haven’t even read yet, but I READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | QUOTES ABOUT FEMINISM
I’ve done a bunch of book quote posts – quotes about reading, quotes with swearing, quotes about race, Oscar Wilde quotes – so I figured I’d tackle a new area of quotes and do another theme that’s important to me – feminism. So here are some quotes on feminism I loved from books. “I READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THIS IS GOING TO HURT – ADAM KAY
I’ve had this on my shelves since shortly after its publication about five years ago. In that time I’ve heard countless other bloggers and BookTubers chat about and review it (always in a very positive light), I’ve seen at least two other editions come out and I’ve seen it made in to a TV READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | WHAT I DO WHEN I’M NOT FEELING WELL
Anyone who’s been here a while knows that I live with more than one chronic illness. This makes pretty much everything complicated, but particularly illness. So I guess the short answer to the question of what I do when I’m not feeling well is simple: panic. This effect has only intensified with the arrival READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I WAS SO EXCITED TO READ BUT STILL HAVEN’T
This prompt describes like 90% of the books on my bookshelves and TBR lists. I get so excited about all the new books coming out by authors I loved, books on book prize lists, books people tell me about, books on most anticipated lists and books on any topics I am particularly interested in. READ MORE
LINK-UP | IT’S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING?
It’s been a few weeks since I remembered to do a Monday post, so I’m going to just include everything I’ve read since the last one. Here we go: Just Shelved: . . . . Most of these I read for the BookTube Prize, so I READ MORE
RE-READ REVIEW | Q’S LEGACY – HELENE HANFF
I read this one again after recommending it to someone and realizing it had been a while. I adored this book when I first read it, it was right down my bookish street and in Helene Hanff I found someone with both my love of books and sense of humour. Hanff is the author READ MORE
WEDNESDAY BLOGGING CHALLENGE | DO I BELIEVE IN ALIENS?
I’ve never really had much of a stance on this one. On the one hand, I don’t believe in little humanoid green guys who wander around in flying saucers occasionally popping in to accost someone on a rural highway (shame, really, cos I’d quite like it if there were a Paul out there). But READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKISH CHARACTERS
I love bookish characters. They’re some of my favourite people. I particularly like finding them in books. Here are a few of my favourites, real and imaginary. Aziraphale from Good Omens was the first one who came to mind when I saw this prompt. I loved READ MORE