Format: ebookPublished: March 13th, 2025Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – Psychology Rating: 5/5 Stars This is an absolutely excellent resource for anyone with ADHD or who have loved ones with ADHD. It’s got all the essential information, while making it clear there’s still a lot we don’t know, and that everyone who has ADHD is different. It’sContinueContinue reading “Book Review: ADHD Unpacked by Alex Conner & James Brown”
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Top Ten Tuesday: Freebie – Books of the Year (So Far!)
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 prompt was a choice between a freebieContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Freebie – Books of the Year (So Far!)”
Book Review: Write Great Dialogue by Irving Weinman
Format: PaperbackPublished: January 1st, 2012Age: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – Reference – Writing Rating: 3/5 Stars This is a writing guide designed to teach you how to write dialogue – it’s not as simple as merely mimicking the way people speak, and it’s a very tricky area of writing. I think Weinman does a good job ofContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Write Great Dialogue by Irving Weinman”
Book Review: Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
Format: ebookPublished: January 27th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – Politics Rating: 5/5 Stars Nan Sloane has done an excellent job in detailing, as much as possible, the lives of women who had an impact of politics, before women were even able to have a proper voice within politics. She explores the lives of women – notablyContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane”
#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”
Audiobook Review: Gay Britannia: Celebrating LGBTQ+ History in Britain
Narrated By: VariousPublisher: BBC Digital AudioAge: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – History – BiographyFormat: AudiobookPublished: June 20th, 2019 Rating: 5/5 Stars If you’re considering picking this up, it’s worth being aware this isn’t really a ‘typical’ audiobook. It’s a series of shows broadcast on BBC Radio covering a wide range of topics, from activists and celebrities discussingContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: Gay Britannia: Celebrating LGBTQ+ History in Britain”
Book Review: Love That Journey for Me by Emily Garside
Format: ebookPublished: June 24th, 2021Age: AdultGenre: Nonfiction – Essays – Pop Culture Rating: 5/5 Stars For many, Schitt’s Creek is an incredibly important TV show. It’s the kind of media where fans have often come across it ‘when they need it’, or turn back to it in difficult times. It means so much to soContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Love That Journey for Me by Emily Garside”
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”
Blogmas Day 2: #5OnMyTBR – Gift
#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. The first #5OnMyTBR of Blogmas! And what a good one. It can be taken in different ways, too, which I really like, but for todayContinueContinue reading “Blogmas Day 2: #5OnMyTBR – Gift”
#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”
Unwrapping Words 