Hello Humans! I know everyone and their mum is writing a reading goals post for this year, so I'll try to keep this snappy. Put simply, I want to read 250 books this year, the exact same goal as I had in 2018. I actually managed to surpass that goal, reading 288 books last year,... Continue Reading →
My #OWNVEMBER TBR
Hello humans! Last Wednesday I announced that I was planning on focussing my reading in November to the books that I own since recently it feels like I've just been reading ARCs while my pile of books at home just grows and grows. I thought it would help to make some kind of a TBR... Continue Reading →
These are a Few of my Favourite Tropes – Pets and Familiars
Hello humans! It's part four of my series looking at some of my favourite tropes or features in books and after a bit of thinking I'm super excited for today's post. Anyone who knows me in real life knows that my life will be made as soon as I have a pet dog of my... Continue Reading →
These are a Few of my Favourite Tropes – Dragons
Hello humans! Welcome to the third part of my 'favourite tropes' series. If you haven't read them yet I urge you to check out my musings on Strong Female Characters and Women Inventors. Today's trope - I'm not sure it counts as a trope. It's more of a character and a setting feature all rolled into one.... Continue Reading →
These are a Few of my Favourite Tropes – Women Inventors
Hello humans! Last week I started a series where I'm planning on talking about some of my favourite tropes in fiction (particularly science fiction and fantasy). Last week I talked about strong female characters, which does tie into this week's trope. I want to talk about one of my absolute favourite tropes - women inventors.... Continue Reading →
These are a Few of my Favourite Tropes – Strong Female Characters
Hello humans! I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to talk about in today's post, I pondered and pondered and eventually decided I wanted to do a series talking about some of my favourite tropes and suchlike in sff books. I pondered some more and decided that the first thing I wanted to talk about... Continue Reading →
Should We Describe Books As Feminist? – Musings
Hello humans! I've been doing a fair bit of thinking lately on book marketing. It's actually the field I work in, though I work in non-fiction so it's not quite the same as the books I blog about. That being said, it does give you an understanding of what goes into marketing books, and the... Continue Reading →
2018 Goals and Projects
Hello humans! Since it's June I thought it would be a good time to have a look at some of the things I'm trying to do this year and to take some time to get excited about them again. You know how it is, you have grand plans at the start of the year and... Continue Reading →
Books as a means to escape…
Hello humans! It’s been a wee while since we’ve had a silly Sunday post isn’t it? I blame the book reviews. But at last I have found a space in my schedule to write this post, I hope you enjoy it! We all know books are a means to escape, escaping from the drudgery of... Continue Reading →
On Ready Player One and The Problem with Passion
Hello humans! As you may know (but don’t worry if you don’t, I’m about to tell you) Sundays on this blog are days when I try to post something a little more than a book review. Sometimes that’s a silly post about how bookworms are basically Disney villains, sometimes it’s something even weirder. Today its... Continue Reading →
Why Bookworms are basically Disney Princesses
Hello humans! A week or so ago I posted about why Bookworms are basically Disney villains and you guys seemed to like it so I did some more thinking and I've come up with some ideas...but this time for Disney Princesses. Much like Tiana, we're hard workers Just watch a bookworm power through a 500+ page... Continue Reading →
Why Bookworms are Basically Disney Villains
Hello humans! Welcome to another silly Sunday post! I've had so many reviews to fit in this month and I didn't want to bombard you with posts. But I'm back now and I thought I'd share with you some similarities I have found between your favourite bookworms and your favourite villains! Much like Ursula, we... Continue Reading →