2016: a year in the (shelf) life
It’s the beginning of a new year, which is the best (and only) time to look back on the reading year that […]
TBR be gone…
A funny thing happened this week – I realised that my once anxiety-inducing TBR pile has actually been whittled down to a […]
Top Ten Tuesday: Holiday Gift Guide
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog theme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week’s theme is the holiday gift guide, […]
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Let me preface this review with the fact that I am in no way religious at all – not even remotely. I […]
My NaNoWriMo Shame
By now, the 6th of November, I should be well into NaNoWriMo – I should have written tens of thousands of words already. I should be feeling good about myself and good about the state of my novel. Instead, I have no words written and just a pile of good intentions, the best of intentions, in fact. Which is why I am subscribing to the T.S Eliot school of thought: “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions”. […]
Top Ten Spooky Books
This week’s Broke and Bookish Top Ten Tuesday is all about Halloween and scary books, of which I have read, ummm, let […]
When do you quit a series?
So, how much time invested in a series is too much time to quit after the fourth book? I ask because I […]
Top Ten Tuesday: Recommendations
This week’s Broke and Bookish Top Ten Tuesday is all about recommendations. Before I joined the wonderful world of book blogging, I […]
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Never have I approached a book with such trepidation and, let’s face it, pure terror – both at what I would find […]
A bad case of the lazy bones
Boy oh boy it’s been a long time since I wrote a post. I wish I could say it’s because I’ve been […]
Top ten chuckles
This week’s Broke and Bookish Top Ten Tuesday is those books guaranteed to give you a laugh. I actually thought this would […]
Bookish quote of the day
“I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike – intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly […]
born and read 