So like many of you I'm sure, I have a penchant for tracking my reading in multiple places - a bullet journal being one of them! It's such a fun and creative outlet and today I wanted to share with you what things I track. I first started doing this last year in 2021 and … Continue reading What I Track in My Reading Bullet Journal!
【 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY 】 ★★★★★ This was spectacularly wonderful. Genre: ClassicAuthor: Jane AustenPublished: October 1811Publisher: Penguin ClassicsPages: 409 (paperback) Having struggled through Pride and Prejudice when I was younger, I was apprehensive going into this that this much-loved story would suffer the same fate. But not at all! I laughed, I exclaimed and I … Continue reading Trials and Tribulations in Sense and Sensibility | Book Review
【 THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME 】 BOOK #2 IN THE BRIDGERTONS SERIES This was one gigantic nope. ★ Genre: Historical RomanceAuthor: Julia QuinnPublished: December 2000Publisher: PlaktusPages: 384 (paperback) I was really surprised (in a bad way) by this book given how much most other people seem to love it. I found it uninspiring and … Continue reading Awful Story in The Viscount Who Loved Me | Book Review
Hello everyone! One trope that seems to be popping up a lot in my world at the moment is the trope of found family. So I thought we could look at 5 books that are awesome and feature this trope. Found family is when the character literally find friends who become like a family to … Continue reading 5 Books with the Found Family Trope
【 THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE 】 ★★★★★ This surprised me. Up until the very last page I thought it was going to be four stars. And then, BOOM. Genre: FantasyAuthor: V. E. SchwabPublished: October 2020Publisher: Tor BooksPages: 444 (hardback) This has to be one of the most hyped books at the moment and … Continue reading Forgetting in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | Book Review
【 ARABELLA'S ALPHABET ADVENTURE 】 ★★★★ A super cute and colourful bookish adventure. Genre: Children's Fiction, Picture BookAuthor: Suzy ZailIllustrator: Christopher NielsenPublished: March 2022Publisher: Walker BooksPages: 32 (hardback) Thanks to Walker Books for a review copy Review on Goodreads This picture book was a pleasant surprise – I had thought we might go on an … Continue reading Bookish Escapades in Arabella’s Alphabet Adventure | Picture Book Review
February was a surprisingly good reading month for me! Also let's pretend we're not halfway through March ... I had thought I'd already written this post and much to my horror I realised I hadn't. SO, let me tell you what I got up to last month because I managed to read (a rather impressive … Continue reading February Wrap-Up! | 2022
【 SISTERS OF THE WOLF 】 ★★★★ A really cool story set tens of thousands of years in the past about the first peoples of Canada. Genre: Historical FictionAuthor: Patricia Miller-SchroederPublished: August 2021Publisher: Dundurn PressPages: 336 (paperback) Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this for review This was sooo interesting and I found the … Continue reading Ice Age Dramas in Sisters of the Wolf | Book Review
【 CLAP WHEN YOU LAND 】 ★★★ A very powerful story, but haltingly written as poetry. Genre: Contemporary, PoetryAuthor: Elizabeth AcevdeoPublished: May 2020Publisher: HarperTeenPages: 417 (paperback) In sum, what didn't work for me was solely the form of writing. I thought the story itself was actually very compelling and beautiful – and touching on really … Continue reading Serious Poetry in Clap When You Land | Book Review
March is such an exciting month for releases this year – I was just jumping up and down with excitement as I looked through all the books coming out this month. It is the month of CONTEMPORARIES. I swear, there are so many great contemporary stories about to hit our shelves, so get yourselves ready. … Continue reading New Releases! | March 2022
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