Publisher: Doubleday ChildrensFormat: ebookRelease Date: January 1st, 2021Genre: HistoricalAge: Children’s/Middle GradeGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars There’s a lot of Children’s/Middle Grade books out there that adults can enjoy as well as children, and with this being an offering from Jacqueline Wilson, one of my favourite authors when I was a teenager, I thought I’d really enjoyContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Runaway Girls by Jacqueline Wilson”
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That Dreaded TBR #43
Getting back into the swing of these. It’s so fun to go through and see what books still catch my interest and what I’ve…kind of gone off! The oldest book on my Want to Read is Under the Dome, which I do have here, so I’m going to try and work it into a readingContinueContinue reading “That Dreaded TBR #43”
Top Ten Tuesday: Love/Valentine’s Day Freebie
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 hope whatever your plans are for today, you areContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Love/Valentine’s Day Freebie”
#5OnMyTBR: Love
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here or in the post announcing it. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. I’ve seen this one going around for a while, and it looks really intriguing. With the position the blog is in atContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Love”
Graphic Novel Review: Spider-Man: Reign
by Kaare AndrewsPublisher: Marvel Comics GroupFormat: HardbackGenre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy/SuperheroesRelease Date: April 25 2007Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars Related Reviews Spider-Man: Coming Home / Spider-Man/Deadpool Volume 1 / Volume 2 Ah, another 00s Marvel graphic novel that imagines the characters as darker and grittier. This one takes place in the future, where the fear of super terrorists hasContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Spider-Man: Reign”
Book Blogger Hop: February 10th – 16th
Book Blogger Hop The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, it was relaunched on February 15, 2013 by Billy @ Ramblings of a Coffee Addict. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end the following Thursday. There will be a weeklyContinueContinue reading “Book Blogger Hop: February 10th – 16th”
Let’s Talk Bookish: Emergency Books
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. February 10: Emergency Books (The Bageler @ It’s the Bageler) Prompts: Do you carry around emergency books? The Bageler explainedContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Emergency Books”
Book Review: Be Scared of Everything by Peter Counter
Publisher: Invisible PublishingFormat: ebookRelease Date: October 13th, 2020Genre: Non-Fiction – Essays – HorrorGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars There’s something about horror that draws to it those of us who are, in some ways, different, and Peter Counter explores just some of them – sometimes unintentionally – in his collection of personal essays about the genre. There’sContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Be Scared of Everything by Peter Counter”
BBNYA Blog Tour: Sacrifice by Vicky Walklate
Publisher: Champagne Book GroupLength: 238 PagesGenre: Fantasy, RomanceAge Category: AdultDate Published: 14 June 2021Amazon: Canada / USA / UKGoodreads Blurb Dragon gods rule the realm, demons lurk in the shadows, and a sorcerer hides a dangerous secret. A war is brewing in Jothesia, and the gods have no idea. Being selected as human sacrifice toContinueContinue reading “BBNYA Blog Tour: Sacrifice by Vicky Walklate”
Book Tag: The Last Book I…
I spotted this one over at Meg’s Magical Musings, and knew it was a tag I wanted to try out eventually. Looks like a good one, so let’s dig in. The last book I bought My last visit to Waterstones, I picked up the sequel to Jennifer Killick’s Dread Wood, Fear Ground. This worked outContinueContinue reading “Book Tag: The Last Book I…”
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