Format: ebookPublished: January 10th, 2023Age: Young AdultGenre: Fantasy – RetellingsGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars This book was a whole lot of fun, and Benway has done an excellent job with this prequel to the events of Cinderella. The Wicked Ones really adds some depth to the ‘ugly stepsisters’, and shows how they suffer under their mother’sContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Wicked Ones by Robin Benway”
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#5OnMyTBR: Mystery
#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 don’t often read a load of Mystery books, but if they’re on my TBR something about them has definitely caught my eye. I doContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Mystery”
Book Review: A Street Dog Named Pup by Gill Lewis
Format: ebookPublished: February 3rd, 2022Age: Children/Middle GradeGenre: ContemporaryGoodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars This book hurt. A truly emotional rollercoaster, wrapped up in an adorable looking package. Think of every film you watched as a kid featuring talking animals and very few humans, throw them together and tease out the best elements, and you’ve kind of gotContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Street Dog Named Pup by Gill Lewis”
On Editing
I don’t often talk a whole lot about editing on here, largely because the focus of this blog is what I’ve read, but editing work feeds into that, too. After all, editing involves ‘reading’ a manuscript, though in a more active way than if I’m reading something something for pleasure. Still, I feel like theContinueContinue reading “On Editing”
Let’s Talk Bookish: Swapping Lives With a Fictional Character
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. Oh, this is a tricky one, isn’t it? I feel like there’s a lot of worldsContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: Swapping Lives With a Fictional Character”
That Dreaded TBR #67
I don’t think I’ll manage 4 books going again for a while, but we’ll see. I’m finding it really interesting seeing what books I was interested in reading all those years ago, but never actually got around to. Hopefully I can actually read some of the earlier ones on the list at some point, andContinueContinue reading “That Dreaded TBR #67”
Top Ten Tuesday: Debut Novels I Enjoyed
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 was a fun one! I can’t always remember whichContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Debut Novels I Enjoyed”
#5OnMyTBR: Hyped Book You Skipped on in the Past
#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. This is an interesting one. Sometimes, I’ve been greatly rewarded when reading ‘hyped’ books (Folk of the Air and Shades of Magic series both comeContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Hyped Book You Skipped on in the Past”
#5OnMyTBR: In Translation
#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 definitely need to read more translated books – there’s such a rich world outside English language books, and I’ve barely even scratched the surface!ContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: In Translation”
Let’s Talk Bookish: How Did You Get Into Reading?
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. Hm…this is an interesting one, and definitely the kind that requires me to dig deep, deepContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: How Did You Get Into Reading?”
Unwrapping Words 