#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. 2024 is already shaping up to be a great year for books – for today’s #5OnMyTBR, I’m focusing on NetGalley books coming out in theContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: 2024 Releases”
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#5OnMyTBR: Loss
#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 always find these types of #5OnMyTBR to be the hardest, the ones where you have to really dig into what a book is aboutContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Loss”
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”
#5OnMyTBR: Titles Starting with a ‘G’
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here or in the post announcing it. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. Found it a bit more tricky to find titles starting with G – at the moment, there are none on my ReadingContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Titles Starting with a ‘G’”
#5OnMyTBR: Number in the Title
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here or in the post announcing it. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. #5OnMyTBR May 22nd: Number in the Title 666 and All That: Apocalypse When? by Paul Whiteman / One Flew Through the DragonContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Number in the Title”
Top Ten Tuesday: Books If You Liked Bridgerton
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 week’s TTT is actually ‘Books for People Who LikedContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books If You Liked Bridgerton”
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”
#5OnMyTBR: Flowers
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here or in the post announcing it. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. Well this is definitely an intriguing theme – ‘flowers’ feels so broad, yet it’s one I might struggle with just a little.ContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Flowers”
Book Review: The Runaway Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher: Doubleday ChildrensFormat: ebookRelease Date: January 1st, 2021Genre: HistoricalAge: Children’s/Middle GradeGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars There’s a lot of Children’s/Middle Grade books out there that adults can enjoy as well as children, and with this being an offering from Jacqueline Wilson, one of my favourite authors when I was a teenager, I thought I’d really enjoyContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Runaway Girls by Jacqueline Wilson”
Book Review: The Rake Mistake by Erica Ridley
Publisher: WebMotionFormat: ebookRelease Date: June 4th, 2021Genre: Historical – Regency – HumourGoodreads I really enjoyed this one. I picked it up purely because I was looking for something relatively short to tide me over from one year to the next, before I could start on my reading challenges. This is a prequel, but it’s bookContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Rake Mistake by Erica Ridley”
Unwrapping Words 