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. This is an interesting one – it’s not ones thatContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Defied My Expectations”
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Book Review: Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman, Jonathan Plackett
Format: HardbackRelease Date: October 19th, 2021Age: Children’sGenre: FantasyGoodreads Rating: 1/5 Stars I was left feeling fairly unimpressed with this book. It felt low-effort, and I’m not totally sure what they were trying to say about gender in the way they’ve constructed this. The fairy tales are the Andrew Lang texts, put through an algorithm, withContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman, Jonathan Plackett”
Audiobook Review: How Not to Fall in Love, Actually by Catherine Bennetto
Narrated by: Rosie JonesPublisher: Simon Schuster Audio UKGenre: Rom-ComFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: January 1st, 2016 Rating: 1/5 Stars This is going to be a bit of a ranty review, I’m afraid. And it might possibly be one of my harshest reviews to date, but if this is a book you’ve been eying up, I’d actually recommendContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: How Not to Fall in Love, Actually by Catherine Bennetto”
Book Review: Everything Is Beautiful by Eleanor Ray
Format: PaperbackRelease Date: February 4th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: ContemporaryGoodreads Rating: 2/5 Stars I didn’t enjoy this as much as I thought I would. If I’m honest, parts of it were downright messy, and it couldn’t seem to decide what genre it wanted to slot into it. I’m all for blending genres, but it’s done in suchContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Everything Is Beautiful by Eleanor Ray”
Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds – Gwenda Bond [Books]
Suspicious Minds is the first Stranger Things tie-in novel, and as such, I was really excited to read it. I love the Netflix series, adore the characters, and was eager to find out more about the Stranger Things universe, prior to the events of the TV show. Especially as this novel focuses on Terry, Eleven’sContinueContinue reading “Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds – Gwenda Bond [Books]”
Unwrapping Words 