Sharing literary gems from around the world
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Disclosure: November Wrap Up 2020 contains affiliate links. I’m an affiliate for Blackwell’s and BookShop UK, so this post contains affiliate links to their sites. If you buy a book via my links, I’ll earn a small commission at no extra cost to you – thank you! Titles with an asterisk* were received free from the publisher in…
Disclosure: Eight Big Books to Curl Up with this Winter contains affiliate links. I’m an affiliate for Blackwell’s and BookShop UK, so this post contains affiliate links to their sites. If you buy a book via my links, I’ll earn a small commission at no extra cost to you – thank you! Titles with an asterisk*…
I’m actually surprising myself by writing a Non-Fiction November post. Non-fiction is not my thing really. I’ll take getting lost in a fictional novel any day. But recently, I’ve found myself branching out more and more, picking up memoirs and essay collections which would have sent me running a few years ago. Non-Fiction Progress Thanks…
Hello and welcome to my October wrap up! It’s been another weird month, full of ups and downs in terms of workload and my mental health. I think that’s reflected in my wrap-up. I read a tonne of books via audio and reached for thinner books since my attention span couldn’t deal with the chunkier…
One of the many things I love about books is finding patterns in my reading! For example, this year I’ve read a lot of Argentinian lit without setting out to. I read The Henna Wars by Irish-Bangladeshi author Adiba Jaigirdar recently and I loved it. It made me want to scour my shelves for other…
One of the most frequent questions I receive on Instagram is where to start with Robin Hobb. With a series of 16 books, this isn’t surprising! It also doesn’t help that Hobb names all her books quite similarly – how many assassins and fools can one title have?! But we forgive her, of course. A…
Hello, and welcome to my September wrap up! I am genuinely concerned to be writing those words. How is it time for a September wrap up already?! I swear it was May like two weeks ago. Anyway. Time is just a construct. Let’s take a look at the books I read this month. I’m happy…
Hello and welcome to another weekly reading diary! This week I’ve finished a new favourite rom-com in the form of Chloe Brown, devoured three and a half books during a readathon, and began scaring myself silly with some very dark Japanese crime fiction! Disclosure: titles with an asterisk* were gifted by the publisher in exchange…
If you’d told me three years ago that I’d be writing a blog post entitled ‘Fifteen of the Best Short Story Collections’, I’d have laughed in your face. Yes, in the past I proclaimed to hate short story collections – hate. It makes me shudder to think about it now! Then I challenged myself to…
