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”

Book Review: To Steal a Heart by Kate Bateman

Format: ebookPublished: February 23rd, 2016Age: AdultGenre: Historical Romance – RegencyGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars To get an idea of how much I really enjoyed this: before I’d even finished, I purchased book 2. Actually, by coincidence, I picked that up shortly after we were introduced to the couple who are the focus of book 2, soContinueContinue reading “Book Review: To Steal a Heart by Kate Bateman”

Book Review: An Improbable Season by Rosalyn Eves

Format: ebookPublished: April 25th, 2023Age: Young AdultGenre: Regency RomanceGoodreads Rating: 2/5 Stars Some genres/subgenres don’t translate well to Young Adult, and unfortunately I think Regency might just be one of them. For starters, Regency often does deal with young adult characters because of the historical context, and it’s also the reason you might get aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: An Improbable Season by Rosalyn Eves”

Audiobook Review: The Life and Works of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser

Narrated by: Devoney LooserPublisher: Audible AudioGenre: Non-Fiction – LiteratureFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: January 29th, 2021Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I really like The Great Courses series. These lectures are entertaining and informative, and I definitely think I’ll continue to check them out. I especially liked Looser in this one, who had a really clear and interesting deliveryContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: The Life and Works of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser”

#5OnMyTBR: Titles Starting with a ‘G’

#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook  and you can learn more about it here or in the post announcing it. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. Found it a bit more tricky to find titles starting with G – at the moment, there are none on my ReadingContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Titles Starting with a ‘G’”

Top Ten Tuesday: Books If You Liked Bridgerton

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 is actually ‘Books for People Who LikedContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Books If You Liked Bridgerton”

Audiobook Review: Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Narrated by: Rengin AltayGenre: Non-Fiction – HistoryAge: AdultPublisher: Grand Central PublishingFormat: AudiobookRelease Date: September 1st, 2020 Rating: 5/5 Stars This book is a series of biographies on various women from the Regency era, paying particular attention to difference between the popular portrayal of the era from Romance novels and shows like Bridgerton, to the actualContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch”

Book Review: The Rake Mistake by Erica Ridley

Publisher: WebMotionFormat: ebookRelease Date: June 4th, 2021Genre: Historical – Regency – HumourGoodreads I really enjoyed this one. I picked it up purely because I was looking for something relatively short to tide me over from one year to the next, before I could start on my reading challenges. This is a prequel, but it’s bookContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Rake Mistake by Erica Ridley”

Book Review: A Very Daring Christmas by Charlie Lane

Publisher: WOLF PublishingFormat: ebookRelease Date: October 18th 2022Genre: Romance – Regency – ChristmasGoodreadsPart of Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Regency Anthology – Once Upon an Aggravatingly Heroic Kiss Review / A Diamond for Christmas Review / The Governess Gamble Review / The Countess’s Christmas Groom Review This novella had quite a few “aww” moments. ItContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Very Daring Christmas by Charlie Lane”

Book Review: Once Upon an Aggravatingly Heroic Kiss by Bree Wolf

Publisher: WOLF PublishingFormat: ebookRelease Date: Genre: Romance – Regency – ChristmasGoodreadsPart of Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Regency Anthology I will do a full review for the anthology as a whole once all finished, but each of these seven also serves as a standalone novella – as far as I can tell, most of theseContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Once Upon an Aggravatingly Heroic Kiss by Bree Wolf”