Format: ebookPublished: March 13th, 2025Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – Memoir Rating: 2/5 Stars Although there are some entertaining parts to Bookish, I found it overall more irritating than anything else. Where the author tries to come off as funny (I think), the humour often falls flat, feeling more judgemental or simply ignorant. This is a sequelContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Bookish: How Reading Shaped Our Lives by Lucy Mangan”
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Let’s Talk Bookish: Reading Non-Fiction
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 7th November:ReadingContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Reading Non-Fiction”
Book Review: Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keisha N. Abraham, John Woolf
Format: ebookPublished: September 1st, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – History Rating: 5/5 Stars I’ve been able to read a few books more recently which set out to spotlight overlooked historical figures, and they’ve all been pretty great. This is no exception. Abraham and Woolf present these short biographies that show Victorian Britain really wasn’t as monolithicContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keisha N. Abraham, John Woolf”
Book Review: The Early Life of Walt Disney by Andrew Kiste
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”
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”
Let’s Talk Bookish: Pride Month Book Recs!
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. Before I get into thisContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Pride Month Book Recs!”
Monday Moods: Educational
Monday Moods is a new bookish meme created and hosted by Unwrapping Words (aka, me!). The premise is simple: every week, there’s a new ‘mood’, ranging from tropes to genres or actual moods (happy, sad, etc). On a Monday, feel free to post about books on your TBR, books you’d recommend, or a mix – whatever youContinueContinue reading “Monday Moods: Educational”
One Sentence Book Reviews – Part 3
I keep meaning to do these a bit more often, but other stuff often gets in the way and, well, it’s been a long time! But they seem to be popular posts so here’s another one. These are one sentence book reviews for the last 5 books I’ve read at the time of writing. OneContinueContinue reading “One Sentence Book Reviews – Part 3”
Monday Moods: Non-Fiction
Monday Moods is a new bookish meme created and hosted by Unwrapping Words (aka, me!). The premise is simple: every week, there’s a new ‘mood’, ranging from tropes to genres or actual moods (happy, sad, etc). On a Monday, feel free to post about books on your TBR, books you’d recommend, or a mix – whatever youContinueContinue reading “Monday Moods: Non-Fiction”
Top Ten Tuesday: Authors Who Live in My Country
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 one was pretty hard – sometimes it’s not soContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Authors Who Live in My Country”
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