Format: ebookPublished: January 30th, 2025Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary – Literary Rating: 4/5 Stars Judging by the Goodreads reviews, I might be in the minority in really liking this! I do think if you’re going to pick it up though, there’s a few things to be aware of. It’s not a romanceThe MC is exceptionally messyIt’s weirdContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su”
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Book Review: Keep A’Livin’ by Kathya Alexander
Format: ebookPublished: April 11th, 2024Age: Adult Genre: Literary – Historical Rating: 3/5 Stars I will admit upfront this one just wasn’t for me. I usually quite like novel-in-verse, but I just didn’t gel with this. Maybe a bit too on the literary side? I found a lot was a bit too jumpy for my personalContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Keep A’Livin’ by Kathya Alexander”
Book Review: Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
Format: ebookPublished: May 7th, 2024Age: AdultGenre: Historical – LiteraryGoodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars This wasn’t a bad book, but it’s much more introspective, character and atmosphere driven than I usually like. I found it to be quite meandering; although it’s relatively short it felt like it took a long while to get anywhere, and the endingContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor”
Audiobook Review: True Biz by Sara Nović
Narrated By: Lisa Flanagan, Kaleo GriffithPublisher: Little, Brown AudioAge: Young AdultGenre: Contemporary – LiteraryFormat: AudiobookPublished: April 5th, 2022Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars True Biz was an engaging, interesting novel about students and teachers at the River Valley School for the Deaf. Alongside the plot (we’ll get to that in a moment), there are small interludes thatContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: True Biz by Sara Nović”
#5OnMyTBR: Coming of Age
#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. Coming of age is a great choice for #5OnMyTBR, but I admit, it’s hard to always pin down ‘coming of age’ until you’ve read theContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Coming of Age”
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”
Book Review: No Ordinary Thursday by Anoop Judge
Format: ebook Release Date: August 1st, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary Goodreads Rating: 2/5 Stars I’ll put my hands up straight away and admit this wasn’t for me. It was a book I grabbed quite a while ago from ‘Amazon First Reads’, and as such I’ve been meaning to read it for a fair while. It cameContinueContinue reading “Book Review: No Ordinary Thursday by Anoop Judge”
BBNYA Spotlight: The Blue Hour by MJ Greenwood
This year, the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the 50 books that made it into Round Two with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title. BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 10ContinueContinue reading “BBNYA Spotlight: The Blue Hour by MJ Greenwood”
Audiobook Review: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Narrated by: Daisy DonovanPublisher: Tinder PressFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: March 31st, 2020 Rating: 4/5 Stars This is definitely an interesting book, but as I listened to the Audible version I think there were quite a few things I missed, but I’ll touch on that later. Really, what ideally would happen is eventually I’d pick up aContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell”
Book Review: Fight Night by Miriam Toews
Publisher: Faber and FaberFormat: ebookRelease Date: March 8th, 2022Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I haven’t read anything by Toews until Fight Night, but this book has definitely made me more interested in reading more from her. Swiv, nine-years-old and living in Toronto, is tasked by her grandmother to write to Swiv’s absent father. In Swiv’s voice,ContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Fight Night by Miriam Toews”
Unwrapping Words 