2025 Reading Challenges Update #9

We are very rapidly approaching the end of the year and I’m…not as far on the reading challenges as I would like, at this stage. Some I’m still hopeful about, but I definitely think for next year I’m going to reduce the amount I’m doing, maybe just by one, though I’m still looking at aContinueContinue reading “2025 Reading Challenges Update #9”

Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List

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. We are hitting autumn and I can definitely feel itContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Fall 2025 to-Read List”

Let’s Talk Bookish: Duologies vs. Trilogies

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, with Dini at Dini Panda Reads as co-host from February 2025. Let’s Talk Bookish July 4th:DuologiesContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Duologies vs. Trilogies”

Blogmas Day 6: 2025 Reading Challenges

Usually I save this for the start of January and highlight a few books on my reading list, but Blogmas felt like a great time to just do a quick rundown of the challenges I’ll be taking part in next year. I’m doing 5 – mainly because they’re all relatively small, and cover the kindContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 6: 2025 Reading Challenges”

Top Ten Tuesday: Titles/Covers With Animals

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. As soon as I saw this prompt I knew itContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Titles/Covers With Animals”

Why Do I Blog?

I always find it interesting when bloggers dive into their motivations and reasons behind their blogs, so thought I’d do one of these for today. Blogging is, largely, time consuming, cost draining, and thankless. Especially in recent years with the rise of more image-based social media, meaning book bloggers often get overlooked in preference forContinueContinue reading “Why Do I Blog?”

Book Review: The Davenports by Krystal Marquis

Publisher: PenguinFormat: ebookRelease Date: February 2nd, 2023Age: Young AdultGenre: Romance – HistoricalGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars This was a really good read! It’s YA Historical Romance, centred around a Black family during a turbulent time of American history. It’s been compared to Bridgerton, and I can most definitely see the parallels; I would absolutely love toContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Davenports by Krystal Marquis”

That Dreaded TBR #45

It’s that time again folks – five books from my very large Goodreads Want to Read shelf, and a chance for me to see if I am still interested in these or if they no longer sound intriguing to me. These books have been sitting on my Want to Read for ten years now, andContinueContinue reading “That Dreaded TBR #45”

Audiobook Review: Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Narrated by: Rengin AltayGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryAge: AdultPublisher: Grand Central PublishingFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: September 1st, 2020 Rating: 5/5 Stars This book is a series of biographies on various women from the Regency era, paying particular attention to difference between the popular portrayal of the era from Romance novels and shows like Bridgerton, to the actualContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch”

Book Blogger Hop: March 17th – 23rd

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: March 17th – 23rd”