Books, pops and random ramblings
Firstly, how in the world is it June already?! What even happened to May? I feel like it disappeared in a blink of an eye. I failed miserably with my May TBR, so I'm determined to do better this month. With my furlough supposedly ending on the 1st July, I want to try and read... Continue Reading →
Synopsis Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in. At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. And now that she's an adult, Augusta has no interest in the goings-on of the small town... Continue Reading →
Synopsis You are invited!Come inside and play with G.O.D.Bring your friends!It’s fun!But remember the rules. Win and ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.™ Lose, you die! With those words, Charlie and his friends enter the G.O.D. Game, a video game run by underground hackers and controlled by a mysterious AI that believes it’s God. Through their... Continue Reading →
I'm a bit late to the wrap-up party, mostly because it's taken me this long to pick just 10 books out of the 163 that I read last year. After much deliberation, these are the 10 books that really stand out from my 2019 reading year. The ones that were original, that stayed with me... Continue Reading →
Synopsis All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship... Continue Reading →
One of my favourite parts of the book community, is the amazing merch that is created by talented individuals. I love discovering new shops, creators and products, so wanted to share some of my favourites, particularly with Christmas on the horizon. Of course, I was always going to start with my absolute favourite, PaperandWord. I've... Continue Reading →
Synopsis In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. On Abeth the vastness of the ice holds no room for individuals. Survival together is barely possible. No one survives alone. To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself... Continue Reading →
Synopsis Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of... Continue Reading →
I really enjoyed the NEWTs Readathon challenge, and it definitely helped me stay focused and read through a bunch more books in August, than I might have otherwise. I decided to set myself my own reading challenge for September, and it's one I've been meaning to do for a while: Read through the first 10... Continue Reading →
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