Format: ebookPublished: April 7th, 2022Age: Adult Genre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars This was a Stuff Your Kindle gem, and though it’s not the type of romance I usually read, I really enjoyed it. Definitely made me keen to check out the next book in the series, too, which is always the sign of aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Sapphires and Secrets by Katerina Simms”
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Let’s Talk Bookish: Blogging Essentials
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. This is a fun topic! This one is a little late, as I tend to doContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Blogging Essentials”
Let’s Talk Bookish: Bookish Olympics
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 such a fun one, and I’m really excited to see what others comeContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Bookish Olympics”
Book Review: The Wicked Ones by Robin Benway
Format: ebookPublished: January 10th, 2023Age: Young AdultGenre: Fantasy – RetellingsGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars This book was a whole lot of fun, and Benway has done an excellent job with this prequel to the events of Cinderella. The Wicked Ones really adds some depth to the ‘ugly stepsisters’, and shows how they suffer under their mother’sContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Wicked Ones by Robin Benway”
That Dreaded TBR #68
My Goodreads Want to Read shelf is way, way too big. It’s a huge, disorganised mess, and I long ago had to stop using it to actually track books I want. So, these posts are my way of trying to reduce it, at least a bit. And so far I’ve done 68 of them, whichContinueContinue reading “That Dreaded TBR #68”
Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Favorite Books from Ten Series
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 one was pretty hard. It’s been a while sinceContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Favorite Books from Ten Series”
#5OnMyTBR: Mystery
#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. I don’t often read a load of Mystery books, but if they’re on my TBR something about them has definitely caught my eye. I doContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Mystery”
2024 Reading Challenges Update #7
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”
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”
Unwrapping Words 