Haul: February 2019

This may look a bit on the larger side, but I promise I'm still sticking to my rules...   The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon I am not over-exaggerating when I say that The Priory of the Orange Tree is my most anticipated book of 2019. You may have already seen my…

Wrap-Up: August 2018

After the stress of Camp NaNoWriMo last month I was really looking forward to plenty of guilt free reading, and as it stands I didn't do too badly... The Foxhole Court (All For the Game #1) by Nora Skavic 🌟🌟🌟🌟 This is a YA contemporary that I bought years ago, because I kept seeing it…

TBR: Aciman-August 2018

Hello, and welcome to Aciman August! In case you missed my announcement I am using this month to read a whole load of books by Andre Aciman, who you may know as the author of Call Me By Your Name, and by whole load I mean a grand total of five.   Call Me by…

Haul: July 2018

Welcome to my second haul for July, this one for book that I bought with my own funds, rather than gift cards, or received as gifts. But if you ant to know what I got for my birthday then you can, with this handy Birthday Book Haul. If not, then why not take a look…

My Signed Book Collection 2018 (Pt.2)

Welcome to the second part of my signed books series! Feel free to check out Pt. 1, Books With Bookplates  which was up last month. Pre-Signed BooksPre-signed books are exactly what they sound like, books that I have bought already signed by the author. Most of these books are form Waterstones, or other shops, such…

Aciman-August Announcement

Hi guys, You may remember my gushing over a certain book at the beginning of the year, and even though I read it twice, I have been wanting to read it again, along with everything that Aciman has written. Speaking of Aciman books, here they are...   Fiction: Call Me By Your Name, Eight White Nights, Harvard…

Haul: June 2018

June is over, and but he time you're reading this I will be one year older, and hopefully also a little wiser. As I write this it's not yet my birthday, so I can only hope! Until then, here are the books that I bought this month.   The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin This…

April Wrap-Up

Even though it was Camp NaNoWriMo this month, the first one of the year, I still, somehow, found a little bit of time to read. I'm super happy that I managed to read, I just wished they were books from my TBR, but I guess you can't have everything.   Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz 🌟🌟🌟 Even…

February TBR

Hey, everyone! February already, the shortest month of the year, which means less time for reading... but I'm not going to let that stop me!   Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Confession time: I have already started this book last month, despite it not being on my January TBR, I just picked it up and…

January Wrap-Up

Let's begin with a couple of really late additions to my December Wrap-Up: 1606; Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro 🌟🌟🌟🌟 As and English Literature graduate it was probably one of the highlights of my year to go and visit Stratford-Upon-Avon, which was where I picked up a signed copy of this…