Hello Bibliofriends! This week's Biblioshelf Musings is for The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox. I would like to thank NetGalley and the publishers, Penguin Michael Joseph UK, for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for my honest review. After reading The Absolute Book, I found myself struggling to verbalise my reflections of reading it.... Continue Reading →
Howdy Bibliofriends! Life Update It's been a little while hasn't it? I took some time away from my blog over the past couple of weeks to deal with some things on the home front, and they're not fully sorted but it's also not really in my control to sort so my headspace is in a... Continue Reading →
Aloha Bibliofriends! In March I took part in the Taylor Swift based 'Tis the Damn Readathon with my friend who is one of the biggest Swifties I know! Quite often my reading ambitions fall on the fantasy side of magical realism so I always end up giving myself too much to do and then fall... Continue Reading →
Hello Bibliofriends! This week's Biblioshelf Musings is for The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart. There was such a buzz about this book across the blogosphere on it's initial release in Hardback format, that I was so excited to get my hands on an e-arc of it from NetGalley in preparation for the paperback release... Continue Reading →
Happy Sunday Bibliofriends! We are continuing the Around the World in 80 Books theme this week on Six For Sunday by creating a list focused on blue and green books. Blue and Green are two of my favourite colours so I'm really drawn to covers using those colour schemes. There were many books on my shelves... Continue Reading →
Hello Bibliofriends! A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, there lived a girl called Carrie Fisher who turned up at an interview for a small-budget space movie and ended up being one of the most iconic Science-Fiction Princesses of our time. This week's Biblioshelf Musings is all about The Princess Diarist... Continue Reading →
Happy Tuesday Bibliofriends, I hope your week is going well so far. A big thank you and shout out to Amy from A Fangirl’s Opinion who tagged me in this Meet the Book Blogger tag! It’s been quite a while since I’ve last done a tag like this so I was really excited to share... Continue Reading →
Happy Sunday Bibliofriends! We are continuing the Around the World in 80 Books theme this week on Six For Sunday by creating a list focused on characters who deserve a holiday. I must say, this is such an intriguing prompt for this week that I really had no idea quite where to start of who to... Continue Reading →
Hello Bibliofriends! This week's Biblioshelf Musings is a perfectly light-hearted audiobook called The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley which I read as part of my 'Tis the Damn Readathon TBR. I can't really remember the reason why I initially downloaded this, but with the return to more hectic teaching life on the horizon - this... Continue Reading →
Happy Sunday Bibliofriends! We are continuing the Around the World in 80 Books theme this week on Six For Sunday by creating lists focused on books set 'elsewhere in the world' to the place that we live. I have a massive case of 'pandemic wanderlust' at the moment and due to lots of things popping... Continue Reading →
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