I feel like I really have no clue how I’ve done this month – it feels like I’ve made some progress, but my current paperback is taking a fairly long time to read! I blame it on longer chapters. I feel like I can’t read a 20 – 30 page chapter, but give me 5ContinueContinue reading “2024 Reading Challenges Update #7”
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Book Review: A Street Dog Named Pup by Gill Lewis
Format: ebookPublished: February 3rd, 2022Age: Children/Middle GradeGenre: ContemporaryGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars This book hurt. A truly emotional rollercoaster, wrapped up in an adorable looking package. Think of every film you watched as a kid featuring talking animals and very few humans, throw them together and tease out the best elements, and you’ve kind of gotContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Street Dog Named Pup by Gill Lewis”
On Editing
I don’t often talk a whole lot about editing on here, largely because the focus of this blog is what I’ve read, but editing work feeds into that, too. After all, editing involves ‘reading’ a manuscript, though in a more active way than if I’m reading something something for pleasure. Still, I feel like theContinueContinue reading “On Editing”
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Wish Had Less Pages
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. I feel like I don’t often get to talk aboutContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Wish Had Less Pages”
#5OnMyTBR: Reading Soon
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. The actual prompt for this week was ‘already bought’, but for these posts I do only count the books I currently have in one formatContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Reading Soon”
Let’s Talk Bookish: Swapping Lives With a Fictional Character
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme that was originally created and hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books starting in August 2019, and was then cohosted with Dani @ Literary Lion from May 2020 to March 2022. Book Nook Bits has hosted since April 2022. Oh, this is a tricky one, isn’t it? I feel like there’s a lot of worldsContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Swapping Lives With a Fictional Character”
Book Review: The Lost Girls of Foxfield Hall by Jessica Thorne
Format: ebookPublished: March 26th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: Historical/ContemporaryGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars I find it fascinating sometimes which books get marketed as horror and which don’t. Having read a lot of horror, The Lost Girls of Foxfield Hall could fall under Gothic, yet it’s marketed and presented as something completely different. It’s got strong horror elements, evenContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Lost Girls of Foxfield Hall by Jessica Thorne”
That Dreaded TBR #67
I don’t think I’ll manage 4 books going again for a while, but we’ll see. I’m finding it really interesting seeing what books I was interested in reading all those years ago, but never actually got around to. Hopefully I can actually read some of the earlier ones on the list at some point, andContinueContinue reading “That Dreaded TBR #67”
Top Ten Tuesday: Debut Novels I Enjoyed
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This was a fun one! I can’t always remember whichContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Debut Novels I Enjoyed”
#5OnMyTBR: Hyped Book You Skipped on in the Past
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. This is an interesting one. Sometimes, I’ve been greatly rewarded when reading ‘hyped’ books (Folk of the Air and Shades of Magic series both comeContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Hyped Book You Skipped on in the Past”
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