Recent Reads | Fantasy in all flavours

Hello, my lovely lemons! 🍋 In a twist I wasn't expecting, after months of reading slumps March has seen me reading furiously. And fantasy has been the name of the game. Mostly it hasn't even been intentional - my TBR Jar has been doing the choosing, and I've been adding in a few books in …

I Paid an Expert to Pick What I Read | Trying Out BookRiot’s Tailored Book Recommendations (TBR) Service

Hello my lovely lemons! I've got a very interesting post today. About a week ago I signed up to BookRiot's newsletter. And, as it turns out, I'm very susceptible to email marketing and had some spare cash. I got an email about their Tailored Book Recommendations (TBR) service, where you tell them all about what …

Why We Need More Female Names on Fantasy Books | A Discussion

Hello everyone! I hope you're celebrating Women's History Month in style (and by reading lots of female authors!). While it's wonderful to celebrate women from history (and modern times), I think we would be doing them a disservice if we don't acknowledge some of the issues still faced today. There are many ways I could …

Top Ten Books From the Last Ten Years | Let’s Go Back In Time

I don't participate in Top Ten Tuesday every week, but some topics are just too fun to miss out on. As soon as I saw this topic I knew how much I'd enjoy organising my Goodreads 'Read' shelf by publish date and scrolling through the results. When I pick up a book I don't tend …

Top 5 Tuesday | 5 Books I Predict Will Be 5 Stars

This is such a fun topic, I couldn't wait to write this post! Sometimes I'm really good at predicting which books I'll rate 5 stars, but sometimes I just pick up a random novel and it takes me by surprise. So, it's a toss up as to how many of these will be right, but …

Top 5 Wednesday | Books I Didn’t Get to in 2018

Seeing as this was the year I joined Goodreads, I set myself a lot of reading goals. I found plenty of new books to add to my TBR, and (predictably) did not get around to reading them all. So here are all the books I bought but didn't read in 2018. Hopefully I'll get to …

Top 10 Tuesday | Books I’d Like to Find Under the Tree

While my books look incredibly festive, I'm not sure how bookish my Christmas is looking. I've got tinsel all around my bookshelf (yes, sadly, bookshelf singular), but who knows how many new additions are waiting under the tree? I really love this prompt, so I'm using it as a way to narrow down my most …