My Favourite 21 Books of 2021

I did say in my last post that I would be writing about my top/favourite books of the year, and as promised here it is! I decided that I would do twenty-one books this year as it's 2021 as a bit of fun. If I'm still doing this next year hopefully I'll have read enough…

Why I Ended Up Taking An Unexpected Break From This Blog – and Why I Still Am

Long title, I know. But I think it's time to address why I suddenly went quiet on here and stopped posting anything in October. I could go on about different reasons why I stopped posting on this blog and a large part of it is is that I just burned out. I started to get…

First Lines Friday 15th October 2021

This week's first lines are... Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy, HINT 1: this is a collection of poems HINT 2: the poet was one of the most important female poets of the 1800s By the way, no it is not Emily Dickinson. HINT 3: the…

Monthly Wrap Up | September 2021

Hello everyone! Welcome to another Monthly Wrap Up. I'll be honest and say that I didn't know if I would bother doing a wrap up for September as I didn't do much reading for most of it really. I found myself reading in drips and drabs over the month and only finished one book on…

First Lines Friday 8th October 2021

This week's first lines are... When the stilt-walker approached, Sesily Talbot realized someone was toying with her. She should have noticed immediately, when she'd stepped off the boat and through the river gates of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, when the dancer dressed as an enormous peacock, brilliantly coloured tailfeathers spread wide as a Marylebone rowhouse,…

3 Horror Anthology/Short Story Collections to Read for Halloween

Hello everyone! Today I wanted to talk about some horror short story collections that I would recommend reading for Halloween. These are all adult horror stories and some of them can go into detail and be a bit graphic. As these are all horror you can't really expect them to be super happy and go-lucky…

First Lines Friday 1st October 2021

This week's first lines are... Kit Webb had principles. He was certain of it. Even at his worst, which had reliably been found at the bottom of a bottle, he hadn't hurt anyone, at least not too badly. Well, at least not on purpose. HINT 1: an LGBT+ romance novel HINT 2: set in 1751…

Book Tour and Review: The Chronicles of Iona: Exile by Paula De Fougerolles

Hello everyone! Today's post is a book review for a book tour hosted by @WriteReadsTours/@TheWriteReads for the book The Chronicles of Iona: Exile by Paula De Fougerolles. A story about two of the men that laid the foundations for Scotland, Saint Columba and Áedán mac Gabráin, in the 6th century. It's a great story for…

Which Is Better: Scribd or Amazon Kindle Unlimted and Audible?

Hello everyone! And welcome to a discussion post I've been wanting to write for a while but was a bit nervous to share. There are a few different ways to access eBooks and eAudiobooks, but I thought that I would discuss some of the more well-known and talked about options. All three of which I…

First Lines Friday 24th September 2021

This week's first lines are... It was beautiful. It was remarkable. It was unique. It was the reason that the Marquis de Carabas was chained to a pole in the middle of a circular room, far, far underground, while the water level rose slowly higher and higher. HINT 1: A novella written by an award…