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 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 …

False First Impressions | All the Wrong Assumptions I’ve Made About Books!

I've made quite a few wrong assumptions about books in my time. Some are silly, some are me judging a book by its cover, and I thought it might be fun to share them with you! The time I nearly wrote off a queer book by thinking it was straight Before I knew of Adam …

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 …

Top 10 Tuesday | Books By My Favourite Authors I Still Haven’t Read

Happy Tuesday! I was so excited by this topic, and honestly it was my motivation to get this blog up before this week. I've been mentally playing along for months every time I read a Top Ten Tuesday post, so it's nice to get to write one for real! Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly …

First Lines | Of My Books and My Blog

Welcome to my new blog! I've been struggling with ways to introduce it, so I turned to the opening lines of my favourite books for inspiration!