It’s that time of the year again when people set goals to give them something to aim for during the year. These aren’t necessarily “resolutions” for me, just things to aim for in terms of reading!
In my last post, I talked about how last year’s goals went – it was a mixed bag! So let’s look forward…
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In April 2020, I decided I was going to keep a reading journal.
For most of my life, I’ve been writing reviews – I used to keep PowerPoints and each book would have a slide. I think this started in 2013, before I began this blog, and then my reviews transferred to Goodreads and I would post a book review for every book I read. But in 2020, the world – well, you know what happened.
Continue reading “Why I Love my Reading Journal | 12 Days of Blogmas”I’d been in a put of a book slump, but the past couple of weeks has rejuvenated my love of literature, and has got me very excited to think about the books I’d love to get my mitts on!
Of course, I have tonnes of books unread on my shelves, but like any bookworm (read: hoarder) I am always looking for interesting new tomes to add to the list…
Continue reading “Books I’d Love to See Under my Christmas Tree!”What a lovely box this one was! The first box I’ve received with the new BTM branding, this was a very enjoyable package to open. Let’s get into it!
It’s October! The season of cosiness, autumn, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and plenty of Gothic, spooky books.
This month, I am actually posting a to be read/possibility list, because I want to participate in two readathons, and therefore there are lots of books I want to complete. So far, I’ve read two books in October (though none are on my TBR…), so I’m already doing quite well I think!
The ninth month of the year is, somehow, over!
September was somehow more hectic than August, and I had my most disappointing reading month of the year so far, reading only 3 books. Whilst the books were really enjoyable, I do wish I had made reading more of a priority and read more books this month! That’s definitely one of my goals for October: to make time to read.
Continue reading “Monthly Reading Wrap-Up | September 2021”I love reading series; I think the fact you can be so fully immersed into the world is wonderful, and there is so much scope for world building. Think of the things you’re still learning about the novel and characters in the final novel that you never even thought about in the first!
The majority of the series on my shelf have been read… apart from the final novel. It’s always this last volume that I have trouble finishing. Why is that?
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How do the summer holidays always go by so fast?! Even though I am now a teacher, not a student, it still feels like the last day of school was just yesterday!
In August, I did not read as many books as I wanted to. Thought I thought it was going to be a relatively quiet month, August turned out to actually be rather hectic and busy. I did a lot of adventuring and day trips, as well as a couple of overnight trips; I finished my Masters, and my first edited novel; and I had a good time! Maybe August wasn’t as productive and book-filled as I’d expected, but sometimes that’s not a bad thing.
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I swear, I only went in for, like one book. Maybe two, at a push. Certainly not the *cough* five I came out with…!
I haven’t done a book haul on this blog for a while, but these books seriously excite me, and I want to share them with you!
Continue reading “Brighton Book Haul!”Trigger Warnings for this book: bestiality, murder, rape, assault, mental health, self harm.
Samantha is not the typical student you would on the famous Warren Creative Writing MFA, especially as a scholarship student. She is ostracised by the rest of her all-female cohort, a group of women who call one another “Bunny” and hug for too long. Then Samantha receives an invitation to their “smut salon”. As Samantha is dragged deeper into their sanctimonious world, the edges of fantasy and reality begin to blur, and the Bunnies push her to the edge.
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Sprinkled With Words 