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Ten series to start
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from The Broke and Bookish is the top new series I want to start. This is a hard one for me, mostly because I’m in the business of reducing my TBR, so I’d rather not even...
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So far in The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Less than 100 pages into The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan. My thoughts so far? Well, when a book contains passages like the one below in the first 30 pages, as Annie would say “I...
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One Lovely Blog Award
It was so lovely (see what I did there) to be nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award by both Lu-Lu’s Rants and Reads and The Worn Bookmark – thank you! So, to the rules of the nomination: Thank the...
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Final thoughts: Narrow Road to the Deep North
I’m here to tell you that the Man Booker judges got it right my friends. Not that I’ve read any of the other books on the shortlist (or on the longlist for that matter), but I can’t see how any of them...
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Giving up on The Scarlet Letter
How many pages of a book do you have to hate before it’s ok to give it up? Usually, I have real issues quitting books, but I’m 20 pages in to The Scarlet Letter and I don’t think I can go on. And the...
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Shelf Life – October 2014
Can you tell that I’ve discovered Canva? Anyhoo – my month of reading has included some crackers. Now, I’m not going to stretch the friendship by boring you with all the details – I wrote blog posts...
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Guess what?
I have been working up to this post for a long time. I’ve known it was coming; it hasn’t been far from my thoughts for weeks. It’s been simmering away in the back of my mind, making me nervous,...
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Secret Santa – bookish style
Cheap hand cream, a penis candle, a set of mugs with photos of teddy bears on them, a yoyo and candy underpants. Some people would call these items junk; I call them the last five years of Secret Santa...
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I’m no quitter
If you are finding a book really hard to read, do you keep going? Do you think reading should be challenging? I’m not talking about whether the ideas or content should be challenging, because I...
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Top Ten Tuesday – get these people in the limelight already
I love the theme of this week’s Top Ten Tuesday – I just hope Geraldine Brooks is taking notice so she can do for some of these what she did for March: Lydia Bennett (Pride and Prejudice) – while I’m...
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Audio books – worth it?
Audiobooks are expensive. Fact. Enough said. End post. But seriously, the first time I looked at buying an Audible subscription I was outraged at the price. $15 a month, and all I get is one measly...
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Top ten Tuesday – sequels
This week’s Broke and Bookish Top Ten Tuesday, is the ten sequels you are looking forward to. I’m not a massive series reader, so I’m not going to make it to ten, but here are the ones making me...
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To reread or not to reread…
Why do we reread books? There are so many amazing books out there in the universe, and only a (relatively) short amount of time to get through them all, so why do we waste time by going back to the...
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Why I suck at reviewing
I sat down today to write a review of the book I just finished and I realised something: I’m terrible at writing reviews. Let me count the ways: I find it almost impossible to reduce a work of hundreds...
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Shelf Life – November 2014
Wow, December really snuck up on me this year (said me, every year). It’s almost Christmas, and we all know what that means – a brand new haul of books to add to my TBR pile. Yay, and gulp. November...
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Top ten books I’m excited about for 2015
Seeing as I didn’t get through all of my TBR pile in 2014, I envisage 2015 including much of the same. So, in the interests of staying true to my book-acquisition-limiting exercise (note the lack of...
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The listening vs reading debate
After a particularly heated discussion with workmates and an offhand comment from someone in my book club, I need to know – does listening to a book on audio count as reading? Actually, that’s a lie. I...
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Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Ever the late-adopter, I have finally joined the rest of the world and read the first book in Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder. And I loved it. Loved. It. I smashed through it in two...
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Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
It’s pretty rare for me to read a book that I instantly know I’ll reread. I’ve written ad nauseum on this blog about not having time for rereads, and the panic that this lack of time has induced, so...
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Top ten books of 2014
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from the Broke and Bookish is the top books from 2014. Personally, I would love for this post to be the best books released in 2014, because that would mean I was so...
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