#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. Well, a big Happy Birthday to #5OnMyTBR! I know I’m relatively new to #5OnMyTBR, but I love doing it so much, and I’ve had aContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Happy 4 Years of #5OnMyTBR Freebie!”
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Let’s Talk Bookish: Do Tropes Count As Spoilers?
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. I love getting to talk about tropes. They’re such a valuable tool, not just for craftingContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Do Tropes Count As Spoilers?”
Book Review: Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939 – 1945 by Becky Brown
Format: ebookPublished: October 8th, 2020Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars In Blitz Spirit, Becky Brown has assembled a series of extracts from the Mass Observation project, which tasked ordinary people with writing dairies immediately prior to and during the war years. It’s worth noting that Brown’s bibliography at the end shows there’s aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939 – 1945 by Becky Brown”
Top Ten Tuesday: Books on my Spring 2024 TBR
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 really love when it’s time to do the TBRContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books on my Spring 2024 TBR”
#5OnMyTBR: Exploration
#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 was a hard but fun one! I had to stretch ‘exploration’ a little, as otherwise I’d really have very little. But I’ve managed toContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Exploration”
Book Review: In the Shadow of Queens: Tales from the Tudor Court by Alison Weir
Format: ebookPublished: September 30th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: HistoricalGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars This collection of short stories has definitely made me want to pick up the Six Tudor Queens series. In In the Shadow of Queens, Alison Weir introduces us to various figures who were part of or adjacent to the Tudor court during the lives ofContinueContinue reading “Book Review: In the Shadow of Queens: Tales from the Tudor Court by Alison Weir”
That Dreaded TBR #59
Another week, another look at the what-the-hell-was-past-Elle-thinking shelf on Goodreads! But that, I mean my want to read shelf, which is way too long and in need of a huge clear out, which I’ve been doing with these blog posts. And I realised I’m almost at number 60, which makes me kind of excited? ItContinueContinue reading “That Dreaded TBR #59”
Book Review: A Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley by Vivian Jones
Format: PaperbackPublished: June 22nd, 2017Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – MemoirGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I picked this up ages ago for research purposes, and because the blurb made it sound like a great way to find out what life was like in mining valleys towards the start of the 20th century. The mines are such a keyContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley by Vivian Jones”
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’m Worried I Might Not Love the Second Time Around
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’ve stuck to six books for this week’s topic, partlyContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’m Worried I Might Not Love the Second Time Around”
#5OnMyTBR: Historical
#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 got so excited seeing this topic – there are many, many historical books on my TBR, of various kinds – some mystery, some historicalContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Historical”
Unwrapping Words 