I hope I find you well and being generally fabulous, because there truly is no other way to be. I've got a great topic for you this week, I can't wait to make the list and confront my fears. It's going to be like a therapy session, but with myself. I hope you like it because … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: A Scary TBR
Today is going to be fun - why? Because I'm telling you, obviously. Actually, today is Mother-In-Law day and as a celebration of that (because why not?) I've decided to do a post inspired by it! There's a delightful website called Days of the Year which tells you what is being celebrated on every day of the … Continue reading Serendipitous Parenting: The Best Motherly Figures
You might be wondering why you're reading "September" when it's very clearly October. Well alright, don't get snappy with me. I do know what month it is. Unfortunately, there was a massive, gigantic, titanic, mammoth, galactic delay on September's edition of The YA Chronicles for reasons completely out of their hands. So after crying myself to … Continue reading The YA Chronicles Unboxing || September 2016
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 5/5 STARS // GOODREADS // Genre: Fantasy [Supernatural], Young Adult, Historical Fiction Author: Ransom Riggs Published: June 2011 Publisher: Quirk Books Pages: 352 {paperback} Originally posted on Goodreads This review is spoiler-free until I state otherwise Initial Thoughts Upon Finishing Oh wow this really was so good! … Continue reading Curiosities in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Welcome back! I hope you're having a more successful Wednesday than myself. I'm currently pouring over 17th century accounts of the Atlantic slave trade for an essay . . . isn't uni life fun? You'll be please to know, however, that I've been very good this first half of the month with book buying (spoiler: … Continue reading Wishlist Wednesday [#32]
Is anyone else positively gasping for Christmas? It's just about the only thing I can THINK of at the moment. Which is crazy because it's mid-October but boy oh boy do I love Christmas. I cannot wait to have oodles of time to lounge about and read. Not mention reading some of these spectacular books … Continue reading Waiting on Wednesday [#44]
It would seem that I'm entirely unable to actually stick to the topic for Top Ten Tuesday. Not only this week have I given up the pretence of racking my brains trying to think of appropriate books, but I've flat out created by own list to make. Because what fun are rules if you actually … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Back in the Day
Oh look! Another book tag. I'm on a roll. I wasn't actually tagged to do this (but pssht, who needs to be tagged to do anything?) but if I could date a website, it'd be Goodreads, so OF COURSE I had to do the tag. I saw this done by Naomi @ Professional Fangrl so … Continue reading The Goodreads Book Tag
The Just City by Jo Walton 4/5 STARS // GOODREADS // Book one in the Thessaly series Genre: Sci-Fi, Philosophy Author: Jo Walton Published: January 2015 Publisher: Corsair Pages: 368 {paperback} Originally posted on Goodreads Initial Thoughts Upon Finishing This was a ridiculously interesting book. I have quite literally never read anything more thought provoking. All … Continue reading Philosophy in The Just City
I was (and let's be honest, still am) a huge fan of The Sims. I could not tell you for the life of my what exactly it was about that computer game that I found impossible to stop playing but ARGH IT'S SO ADDICTIVE. When I saw jessethereader do this tag on BookTube I knew … Continue reading The Sims Book Tag
Upside-Down Books 