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”
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Take Place During the Georgian Era
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. The full prompt for today is – Books Set in/TakeContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Take Place During the Georgian Era”
Book Review: The Story of Cardiff by Nick Shepley
Format: PaperbackPublished: October 1st, 2011Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – History Rating: 5/5 Stars I might be biased here, but I really do think Cardiff is a great city, though definitely not reaching its full protentional, which is often a huge shame. I’ve lived near/in Cardiff my whole life, growing up with the city as a backdropContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Story of Cardiff by Nick Shepley”
Audiobook Review: The World According to Cunk: An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever, Space Permitting by Philomena Cunk
Narrated By: Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan)Publisher: John MurrayAge: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – HistoryFormat: AudiobookPublished: October 3rd, 2024 Rating: 5/5 Stars For those who aren’t aware, Philomena Cunk is a character played by Diane Morgan, and if you haven’t come across her before, I strongly suggest checking her out. Morgan plays the part brilliantly on TV, butContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: The World According to Cunk: An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever, Space Permitting by Philomena Cunk”
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”
#5OnMyTBR: Nonfiction
#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. At the time of writing this, there haven’t been any prompts added for #5OnMyTBR for January, so to keep it simple I thought I’d highlightContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Nonfiction”
Book Review: The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners by Seumas Milne
Format: PaperbackPublished: December 1st, 1994Age: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – History – Politics Rating: 5/5 Stars We’re now at 40 years since the 1984-85 miners’ strike, and 30 years after the initial publication of The Enemy Within. Reading it now, in 2024, it’s borderline depressing how we’re still feeling the impact of the way things played outContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners by Seumas Milne”
#5OnMyTBR: Nonfiction
#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. As a theme kind of emerged within nonfiction for my first few books, I decided to stick with it for the rest. So, here’s 5ContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Nonfiction”
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: Books About Books
#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. Today’s topic is a really fun one, and I had a great time picking out my TBR books that are about books! There are soContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Books About Books”
Unwrapping Words 