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 →
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 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 →
Hello Bibliofriends! This week's Biblioshelf Musings took me a dark, deceptive trip down memory-lane to the fascinating art-world of Italy. The Favour by Laura Vaughan is a tricksy, mind-bending novel filled with a cunningly unreliable narrator, an insight into the lavish lifestyles of the social elite all framed with the overarching question, just how far... Continue Reading →
Happy Sunday Bibliofriends! We have a brand new theme for March with our Six for Sunday prompts and I am so excited for Around the World in 80 Books! This week we are focussing on books set in the country where we live. Now initially, when I wrote all of the prompts in my planner... Continue Reading →
Hello Bibliofriends! This week’s Biblioshelf Musings is of the poetry genre! I was approached by the author Daniel Ståhl to read Requiem (In Memory Of All That Should Have Been), his collection of sonnets at the beginning of this year and since I haven't really read any poetry recently, I thought this would be a... Continue Reading →
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