ARC Review: “Frontier” by Grace Curtis
My thanks to Hodder & Stoughton for an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. In a dystopian future, most of humanity has fled a ravaged Earth,…
“Utopia” and the little things that make it
This morning I came across a little poem I wrote eight months ago, in response to the prompt “utopia”, and liked it enough that I wanted it on the blog. Please forgive…
Book Review: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
A Thousand Ships is a retelling of the aftermath of the Trojan War, drawing on source material from the Iliad and Euripedes’ Trojan Women, amongst others. Thematically it follows other books such…
WWW Wednesday, 8 February 2023
WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words. All you have to do is answer the following three ‘W’ questions below. What did you recently finish reading?What…
ARC Review: The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood
My thanks to Hodder & Stoughton Audio for an advanced copy of this in audiobook form in exchange for an honest review. There are a lot of Greek Myth Retellings out there,…
Characters of the Year Book Tag!
I first saw this post done by Jaime over at Keeper of the Wood Between Worlds, and liked the challenge of thinking back over 2022’s reading in terms of the characters I…
Book Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a novella set around one of the side character’s in Patrick Rothfuss’ fantasy epic, The Kingkiller Chronicle. This is a Sunday-afternoon ramble on why I love…
Book Review: Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
Oxford in 1836 is the centre of an empire, the seat of all knowledge, learning, technology, colonialist privilege, and – crucially – of the magic that drives it all. In the tower…
Book Review: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Meet Ove. A man with routines. A man with principles. A man who drives a Saab (and thinks that anyone who drives anything different must be something of a lunatic). A man…
Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2022
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a…
First Lines Friday! #4
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its…
WWW Wednesday, 18 January 2023
WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words. All you have to do is answer the following three ‘W’ questions below. What did you recently finish reading?What…
Book Review: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
In some respects, it’s difficult to review The Secret History – Donna Tartt’s 1992 masterpiece that ended up popularising the dark academia sub-genre – because it feels like everything that could have…
WWW Wednesday, 11 January 2023
WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words. All you have to do is answer the following three ‘W’ questions below. What are you currently reading? What did…
Wrap Up! All the Books I Read in 2022
Welcome to a canter through my last year in books! I read 40 books in the last year – a nice round number that I’m pleased with, particularly given 2022 coincided with…
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