Tag: Book reviews

• A little update – taking a break from blogging

  This year I have been trying out new types of blog posts, namely the monthly reading diary and then a post in the middle. I haven’t posted an individual book review since early December. For me I felt that reviewing each book I read in separate posts put too much pressure on me, and on […]

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  June 22, 2022

  Articles, Personal

  Blogging, Book blogs, Book reviews, Personal, Publishing, Reading

• New year, new books… and more

  So, somehow, it’s now 2022. Today feels like the actual start of the new year because it’s the first day I’m back in my usual weekly routine with my husband at work and my son at nursery, and I’m alone in the house (with the dog) for the first time in like three weeks. And […]

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  January 5, 2022

  Articles, Comment, Personal

  Articles, Book blogs, Book reviews, Books, Comment, Instagram, Newsletters, social media, Substack

• The Reading Cure by Laura Freeman (2018) – shortlisted for The Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer Of The Year Award, in association with The University of Warwick

  I’d had The Reading Cure on my GoodReads TBR for a while, so I was pleased to see that it was shortlisted for The Young Writer Of The Year Award, and I would have a reason to actually hurry up and read it. It is a memoir that blends together the personal and the literary, […]

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  November 14, 2018

  Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2018, Book reviews, Hardback, Laura Freeman, Non Fiction, Orion Publishing, Review copy, The Reading Cure, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Young Writer of the Year Award

• House of Glass by Susan Fletcher (2018)

  I loved Susan Fletcher’s last novel, Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew, so I was very happy to accept a review copy of House of Glass, which was published at the start of November. It’s another historical drama, this time centering on a woman named Clara Waterfield, who is employed to create […]

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  November 13, 2018

  Fiction, Reviews

  2018, Book reviews, Fiction, Historical fiction, House of Glass, Little Brown, Review copy, Susan Fletcher, Virago

• Announcement! Young Writer of the Year 2018

  Happy Wednesday dear readers! I am very pleased to announce that this year I am part of the Shadow Panel for the Young Writer of the Year Award. Along with four other book bloggers, I will be reading the books on the shortlist for the award and choosing a Shadow winner. They all look fascinating […]

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  October 31, 2018

  Articles, Events

  #YoungWriterAwardShadow, 2018, Announcement, Blogging, Book award, Book blogs, Book reviews, Events, Young Writer of the Year Award

• hello september! an update

  i was going to write and publish a book review today, but i realised it wasn’t really what i wanted to post right now. i know this is a book blog, but for me it’s also very personal. it is my life in books. books are right at the heart of me. but recently books […]

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  September 1, 2018

  Comment, Personal

  A Little Bird Told Me, Agora Books, Blogging, Book reviews, Life Among the Savages, Marianne Holmes, Personal, Reading, Shirley Jackson, The Road Through the Wall

• Recent reads roundup! Miss Jane (2016), Mindhunter (1995), and The Butcher’s Hook (2016)

  As I wrote about in my last post, I had a bit of a reading slump at the end of 2017 (after a very mixed bag of reading throughout the year), and didn’t get to read much over the Christmas holidays as I had a cold, then the flu, then a chest infection. But now […]

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  January 28, 2018

  Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews

  Book haul, Book reviews, Brad Watson, Christmas, Fiction, Janet Ellis, John Douglas, Mindhunter, Miss Jane, Non Fiction, Recent reads, The Butcher’s Hook, Waterstones