Format: ebookRelease Date: July 18th, 2023Age: AdultGenre: Horror Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars As part of Blogtober, I’m reposting some of my Divination Hollow reviews from the last year. Usually, I review horror and similar genres over there, but October seems like a great time to highlight some of my favourites! You can read the originalContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 15: Book Review – Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle”
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Book Review: You Say Potato by Ben Crystal & David Crystal
Format: HardbackRelease Date: October 9th, 2014Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – History – LanguageGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars As someone who doesn’t have a stand-out, clear accent (I was told at university, “You sound Welsh when someone knows your Welsh. Otherwise you…don’t.” This was not the time I got drunk, slipped into a South Wales valleys accent, andContinueContinue reading “Book Review: You Say Potato by Ben Crystal & David Crystal”
Blogtober Day 14: Book Blogger Hop October 13th – 19th
Book Blogger Hop Blogtober 2023: Day 1 / Day 2 / Day 3 / Day 4 / Day 5 / Day 6 / Day 7 / Day 8 / Day 9 / Day 10 / Day 11 / Day 12 / Day 13 Do you read anything specific in the fall? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee AddictedContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 14: Book Blogger Hop October 13th – 19th”
Blogtober Day 13: Goodreads Most Popular Horror Part 6
I’m diving back into the most popular horror list – something that’s drawn me back so quickly is how few of the last ones I’d actually heard of! Even if I can’t read every new release, I thought I’d been pretty good at keeping up with new horror releases and what’s out there, but apparentlyContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 13: Goodreads Most Popular Horror Part 6”
Blogtober Day 12: Favourite Autumnal Book Covers
As I had a review up earlier, I thought for Blogtober Day 12 I’d head back to Jenniely’s excellent website and take another look at the prompts there. This was quite hard to find a few of these covers – it feels like ‘autumn’ isn’t something on a lot of the covers for the booksContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 12: Favourite Autumnal Book Covers”
Book Review: As Far as You’ll Take Me by Phil Stamper
Format: ebookRelease Date: February 9th, 2021Age: Young AdultGenre: ContemporaryGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars Firstly, thank you to Bloomsbury for providing me a copy of this book via NetGalley – views remain my own. If you’re going to pick up this book, please be sure to check out the content warnings beforehand. The book deals with aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: As Far as You’ll Take Me by Phil Stamper”
Blogtober Day 11: Goodreads Most Popular Horror Part 5
Folks who read my blog around this time last year might recall I started going through Goodreads’ Most Popular Horror Books – horror books published between October 2017 and September 2022, with popularity measured by shelving – books from readers’ Read and Want to Read, and overall star ratings. You can see the full listContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 11: Goodreads Most Popular Horror Part 5”
Blogtober Day 10: Top Ten Tuesday – Eight Horror Books
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. So I did adjust this week’s Top Ten Tuesday -ContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 10: Top Ten Tuesday – Eight Horror Books”
Blogtober Day 9: #5OnMyTBR – Gothic
#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. With another perfect-for-Blogtober prompt, it’s time for this week’s #5OnMyTBVR! I love Gothics, but I haven’t read nearly enough, and I’m very glad to haveContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 9: #5OnMyTBR – Gothic”
Blogtober Day 8: Book Review – The Dark Half by Stephen King
Format: HardbackRelease Date: January 1st, 1989Age: AdultGenre: Horror – ThrillerGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars As part of Blogtober, I’m reposting some of my Divination Hollow reviews from the last year. Usually, I review horror and similar genres over there, but October seems like a great time to highlight some of my favourites! You can read theContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 8: Book Review – The Dark Half by Stephen King”
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