Format: ebookPublished: March 13th, 2025Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – Memoir Rating: 2/5 Stars Although there are some entertaining parts to Bookish, I found it overall more irritating than anything else. Where the author tries to come off as funny (I think), the humour often falls flat, feeling more judgemental or simply ignorant. This is a sequelContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Bookish: How Reading Shaped Our Lives by Lucy Mangan”
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Book Review: Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keisha N. Abraham, John Woolf
Format: ebookPublished: September 1st, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – History Rating: 5/5 Stars I’ve been able to read a few books more recently which set out to spotlight overlooked historical figures, and they’ve all been pretty great. This is no exception. Abraham and Woolf present these short biographies that show Victorian Britain really wasn’t as monolithicContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keisha N. Abraham, John Woolf”
Book Review: The Early Life of Walt Disney by Andrew Kiste
Format: ebookPublished: September 17th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – Biography – History Rating: 4/5 Stars Let’s start here: I’m a Disney fangirl. I’m not the biggest, by any stretch. I don’t make regular pilgrimages to any of the parks, but if I could, I absolutely would. When I was 4, my family were involved in aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Early Life of Walt Disney by Andrew Kiste”
Book Review: The Fairy Tellers by Nicholas Jubber
Format: ebookPublished: January 20th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – History – Folklore/Fairy Tales Rating: 5/5 Stars If you have an interest in fairy tales beyond the tales themselves, I think Jubber’s book is an excellent deep dive not just in the history of the tales, but of the people who wrote and/or collected them. Yes, weContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Fairy Tellers by Nicholas Jubber”
Book Review: Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
Format: HardbackPublished: January 1st, 2007Age: Adult Genre: Nonfiction – Historical – Biography Rating: 5/5 Stars I love William Shakespeare. I love that he’s forever a mystery, and a contradiction – we can see his depth and range of emotion in his surviving plays, but we have very little knowledge of his life, how he mightContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Shakespeare by Bill Bryson”
#5OnMyTBR: Reading Soon
#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. The actual prompt for this week was ‘already bought’, but for these posts I do only count the books I currently have in one formatContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Reading Soon”
#5OnMyTBR: Over 400 Pages
#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. So, I keep track of the books I own, but there’s only two ‘groups’ where I have accurate page counts noted down – my physicalContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Over 400 Pages”
Recommended Biographies
I thought I’d do something just a little different today and highlight a few biographies I’ve really enjoyed, and would recommend to others! I’ve tried for ones that cover a wide range, but with my interests there might be some slight crossover in the themes. But if you’re looking for non-fiction and are interested inContinueContinue reading “Recommended Biographies”
Book Review: Meet the Georgians by Robert Peal
Format: PaperbackPublished: July 8th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars This was a great book to finish 2023 on! Meet the Georgians contains a range of short biographies on various historical figures from 1714 to the 1830s, including Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Eqiano, the Ladies of Llangollen, and many more. Peal keeps theContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Meet the Georgians by Robert Peal”
#5OnMyTBR: Not Set in UK/USA
#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 amended this one – the actual prompt is ‘In Translation’, but I’m not sure how many translated books are currently on my TBR! GotContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Not Set in UK/USA”
Unwrapping Words 