Let’s Talk Bookish: Cancel Culture

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. August 11th: Cancel Culture in the Book Community Prompts: What are your thoughts on cancel cultureContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Cancel Culture”

Book Review: No Ordinary Thursday by Anoop Judge

Format: ebook Release Date: August 1st, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary Goodreads Rating: 2/5 Stars I’ll put my hands up straight away and admit this wasn’t for me. It was a book I grabbed quite a while ago from ‘Amazon First Reads’, and as such I’ve been meaning to read it for a fair while. It cameContinueContinue reading “Book Review: No Ordinary Thursday by Anoop Judge”

That Dreaded TBR #50

Wow, number 50! For those good at maths, that’s a total of 250 books I have gone through in my never-ending quest to reduce my TBR. And as today’s starts at 115, excluding any books removed today, it means I’ve got rid of a total of 131 books that were previously on my Goodreads WantContinueContinue reading “That Dreaded TBR #50”

#5OnMyTBR: Woods

#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 fun one! I tried to go for books that mention woods in the title, are set in/around woods, or maybe have woodsContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Woods”

Book Blogger Hop: August 4th – 10th

Book Blogger Hop What fictional character would you most like to meet in person? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer) This is a hard one! I feel like I so often read books with such great characters, and when I do feel a connection to a character, I often feel like they’d be fun to meetContinueContinue reading “Book Blogger Hop: August 4th – 10th”

Let’s Talk Bookish: Reading and Mental Health

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. August 4th: Reading and Mental Health (Jillian @ Jillian the Bookish Butterfly) Prompts: How does reading impact yourContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Reading and Mental Health”

Book Review: Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne

Format: ebook Release Date: January 18th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary RomanceGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars Thank you to Headline Eternal for providing a copy of this book via NetGalley – views remain my own. This was really enjoyable. A very loose retelling of Pygmalion, Made in Manhattan features Violet – a Manhattan socialite who knows exactly howContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne”

Reading Challenge Update #7

It’s August! And I can confirm following my previous post, the heat was turned down – a bit too much! As I type this it’s very gloomy and grey outside. We just can’t seem to win! But even with miserable weather we’ve had days where it’s been miserable and muggy – it would be niceContinueContinue reading “Reading Challenge Update #7”

#5OnMyTBR: Animal

#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. Another really fun topic from #5OnMyTBR! This one wasn’t hard to find books for at all, as there’s a fair few I have that eitherContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Animal”

Book Review: A Duke of a Time by Tamara Gill

Format: ebook Release Date: February 7th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Historical RomanceGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars This is one of those books I found myself really enjoying and getting into at certain points, only to then have something minor whip me out the story. The ‘issues’ might be particular to me, but this just scraped by with aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Duke of a Time by Tamara Gill”