This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is: Top Ten Books On My Summer TBR List. I feel like I did this one already. But I suppose this is slightly different – and more about my own plans for summer reading. So I’ll try not to be too repetitive! Beloved Strangers READ MORE
Author: RAIN CITY READS
STACKING THE SHELVES #25
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
WHY I’M NOT IN THE LEAST EMBARRASSED TO BE AN ADULT YA READER
Earlier this week I went to see the movie adaptation of one of my favourite books. A book that had a deep emotional impact on me while also making me laugh harder than many more comedic novels I’ve picked up. This movie, as you all know, was The Fault In Our Stars. Which just READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW: THE LIBRARY OF UNREQUITED LOVE – SOPHIE DIVRY
One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She starts to talk to him, a one-way conversation that soon gathers pace as an outpouring of frustrations, observations and anguishes. Two things shine through: her shy, unrequited passion for a quiet researcher named Martin, and an ardent and absolute love of READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES #24
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
GUESS WHAT I DID TONIGHT? (PREPARE TO BE JEALOUS)
So a couple of weeks ago I was browsing Chapters, and I saw a contest to win passes to an advance screening of The Fault In Our Stars in my town. I entered, you know, just for the heck of it. And then promptly forgot all about it. Then on Monday an email lands in READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY: TOP TEN BEACH READS FOR THE SUMMER
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is a seasonal: Top Ten Books That Will (or Should) Be In My Beach Bag This Summer. First of all, let me say that I’m not a seasonal reader, I’m more of an, “as the mood strikes me” reader. So I don’t really have READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | UP A TREE IN THE PARK AT NIGHT WITH A HEDGEHOG – P. ROBERT SMITH
Benton Kirby is in a spot of bother… His life hasn’t exactly gone to plan. This is hardly surprising, however, as he never really had one in the first place. Armed with a philosophy degree, a dead fiance, a brother who drives Death around London in his black cab, and a girlfriend with a READ MORE
STACKING THE SHELVES #23
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
Armchair BEA – Expanding Blogging Horizons
The Day 3 topic for Armchair BEA that I’ve selected is: Expanding Blogging Horizons What do you think about when you think about going beyond blogging or expanding your horizons? Is it a redesign of your blog? Have you branched out into freelance writing or even published a novel of your very own? Or, have READ MORE
Armchair BEA – Introductions
I’m getting started on this a little bit late because I wasn’t really sure if I was going to participate. But after seeing a few of the posts that have gone up, I’ve decided to jump on in! Since I’m late getting started, I’m going to try to do a few posts over the next READ MORE
Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish People I’d Like to Meet
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday on The Broke and the Bookish is a Freebie, which means I get to pick my own topic. So I pick…. (drum roll please)…Top Ten Bookish People I’d Like to Meet. I like this because it’ll allow me to highlight some of my favourite bloggers, as well as a few READ MORE
The Book Blogger Test
The lovely Stacie over at Books Galore tagged me to participate in this post. It’s basically a list of book-related questions on topics that I may or may not have mentioned on the blog before – mainly to help you guys get to know me even better! So without further ado, let’s get started! What READ MORE
Life of a Blogger: 101 Things I Hate
Life of a Blogger is a weekly meme hosted by Novel Heartbeat. Every week there’s a new topic, not related to book blogging. This week’s topic is the other side of last week’s: 101 Things I Hate. (For a full list of topics – past and future – go here.) Well this should be easy! READ MORE
Let’s Discuss: #WeNeedDiverseBooks and a Look at Must-Read Lists
A long, long time ago, I published a list of the 1,001 books you should read before you die, as decided by the BBC. A few weeks ago, a new comment was left on this long-forgotten post, pointing out how western-centric it is and bemoaning the lack of diverse authors and literary offerings. Diversity in READ MORE
Stacking the Shelves #21
Time to look at the books I added to my shelves this week with Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews! Not necessarily books I bought – also includes books I borrowed, was given or otherwise ended up with. Weeks where I don’t buy books I’ll scramble around my shelves and find some books I READ MORE
Meet Karolina from Bookshelf Reflections
A couple of months ago, an email landed in my inbox from Karolina asking if I’d be willing to let her interview me for her blog. Totally flattered, I agreed – on the condition that she’d let me interview her, too! We exchanged lists of questions, and spent (well, I did, anyway) a very long READ MORE
WWW Wednesday #20
It’s time for this week’s WWW Wednesdays, hosted by Should Be Reading blog (head over and check them out!). This link up asks three questions What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll be reading next? Here are my WWW answers! What did I recently finish reading? READ MORE