Hello everyone, It is only six days until Christmas, and I hope you are all having an excellent week! Today I would like to share some of my favourite quotes that I came across in the books I have read on my Kindle in 2018. There are a fair few, so I have decided to … Continue reading Top Kindle Highlights of 2018 – Part One
Hello everyone, I have just taken part in my second 24-Hour readathon, which is hosted from 8pm on the last Friday of each month by my fabulous fellow book lovers Lili and Noriko. Overall it was fun, and I am happy with how it went! At the start it was fairly slow going, but in … Continue reading 24 Hour Readathon Wrap-Up – November 2018
Hello everyone, I am really looking forward to participating in the monthly 24-hour readathon hosted by my friends Lili and Noriko, which begins at 8pm on Friday. It is the second time I will take part, having done so back in July. Back then it was really fun and fulfilling, and I especially liked interacting … Continue reading 24 Hour Readathon TBR – November 2018
Hello everyone, First of all I have to thank Rae @ Thrifty Bibliophile for coming up with the idea for this post. I came across it on her wonderful blog (which you must follow, by the way!), and decided that I would like some of these posts myself. One of the impressive features of a … Continue reading Kindle Vocabulary Builder #1
Image credit: BBC Hello everyone, I am a regular visitor to the Bristol Central Library. A historic building located right next to the cathedral of the city where I live, it is where I get a lot of my physical books. The library is the largest and most visited in Bristol, containing the widest selection … Continue reading Bristol Central Library
Hello everyone, It is now only THREE WEEKS until Lethal White, the next book in the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith (that's J.K. Rowling to us) is released. I personally cannot wait, and am going to be building up to it by rereading the first three books in the series, which sit happily in my … Continue reading Rereading…Cormoran Strike
Hello everyone, I have just participated in my first 24-hour readathon, and I can honestly say that it was a different, but very fun and rewarding experience! The readathon takes place on the final Friday of each month, and is hosted by Lili of Lili's Blissful Pages and Noriko of Diary of a Bookfiend. The … Continue reading 24-Hour Readathon Wrap-Up
I came up with the idea for this post after noticing a curious pattern in a lot of the books that I have read during the last few months: The same character names keep appearing, almost from book to book. So I have mainly been reading domestic or psychological thrillers, which means that most characters … Continue reading The Same Names
I am so often side tracked by books. For example, if I walk past a bookshop I feel like I almost have to go inside and browse for some time, ranging from 10 minutes to two hours (depends on the size of the shop!). I've been known to spend entire afternoons at libraries, and there … Continue reading Take a Book, Leave a Book
First of all, Happy New Year! I hope that 2018 brings prosperity and fulfilment to you all, whatever you do and wherever you may be. Now, I just wanted to write a post on the wonderful blogging community that WordPress has helped to create and facilitate. When I began blogging I didn't really appreciate that … Continue reading A Tribute to the Blogging Community
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