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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Four Bookworm Confessions I should probably keep quiet

Hello humans! It's Sunday so it's time for another post where I give legitimate life advice. Ahem. Today I want to talk about some bookworm confessions. I'm talking about the things we don't want to tell anyone about. It's time to get this out in the open. Time to start sharing these things and ending...

My 2018 Blog Set Up – How I’m Staying Organised This Year

I can almost see 2019 Judith looking back on this blog post and laughing hysterically. Any time in my life where I have attempted to 'get organised' it usually ends in disaster. Now most of the time those disasters are small, I have yet to set anything on fire with my organisation. Yet. Anyway I...

Musings #2 My Degree

Good morning humans! Yes! As I said in my post last week I'm going to try to write these musings as and when I feel like it, and boy I'm feeling like it now. So I graduated last summer with a shiny new degree from Oxford University in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History (or CAAH...

Caught Between Two Worlds – The perils of trying to read too much at once.

A fairytale ... on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must be for him no other. W. H. Auden Auden, a poet writing in the mid 20th century, said this frankly marvellous quote about fairy tales which I found as the heading to...