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 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”
Blogtober Day 5: Book Review – Revenge Arc by Cat Voleur
Format: PaperbackRelease Date: August 1st, 2023Age: AdultGenre: HorrorGoodreads 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 original reviewContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 5: Book Review – Revenge Arc by Cat Voleur”
Blogtober Day 1: Audiobook Review – Selling Dead People’s Things by Duane Scott Cerny
Narrated by: Duane Scott CernyPublisher: Thunderground PressAge: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – MemoirFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: July 15th, 2022Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I was really intrigued by this book right from the cover and title. I admit, the world of antiques and vintage items isn’t something I’m overly familiar with, outside of the occasional wander around antique shopsContinueContinue reading “Blogtober Day 1: Audiobook Review – Selling Dead People’s Things by Duane Scott Cerny”
Book Review: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Format: ebookRelease Date: February 28th, 2023Age: AdultGenre: FantasyGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars With all the great things I’d heard about this book, I may have been a touch hesitant going in – there’s always a slight fear I’m not going to get along with a book as much as others have. But, finally, I got aroundContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty”
The WriteReads Blog Tour: Scareground by Angela Kecojevic
Blurb Roll up, roll up, the Scareground is in town! Twelve-year-old Nancy Crumpet lives above a bakery and her life is a delightful mix of flour, salt, and love. Yet her mind is brimming with questions no one can answer: Why did her birth parents disappear? Why can she speak with the sky? And whyContinueContinue reading “The WriteReads Blog Tour: Scareground by Angela Kecojevic”
Book Review: A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
Format: ebookRelease Date: January 20th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Historical – LiteraryGoodreads Rating: 1/5 Stars Thank you to publishers Faber & Faber for providing a copy of this book via NetGalley. A little history before diving into the review, specifically about the event that starts this book – in October 1966, a coal slag heap collapsed inContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe”
Book Review: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
Format: PaperbackRelease Date: January 5th, 2000Age: AdultGenre: Romance – HistoricalGoodreads Rating: 2/5 Stars This book was so good until maybe the last third? Everything prior to Simon and Daphne getting caught in the garden is great, but unfortunately the book takes a downward turn from there and gets a bit messy. Do I still wantContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn”
Graphic Novel Review: Saga, Volume 1
by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (Illustrator)Publisher: Image ComicsFormat: PaperbackGenre: Sci-FiRelease Date: October 23rd, 2012Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars Finding myself run out of graphic novels and at a little bit of a loss as to what to pick up next, I eyed up my shelves and decided to do a re-read of what is, quite frankly, oneContinueContinue reading “Graphic Novel Review: Saga, Volume 1”
Unwrapping Words 