Book reviews, recommendations and literary life
Book reviews, recommendations and literary life
I picked up The Binding on an innocent visit to the local Oxfam bookshop. I wasn’t intending to buy anything of course, but I tripped and fell, which led to me leaving with this and probably some others. But let’s not dwell on that, or why I am buying more books when I already work in …
I was lucky enough to get a proof copy of Cecily before it came out in July. My first thoughts were how beautiful the cover is! It’s extremely striking and is so much more modern than lots of other historical fictions novels. That aside, I was excited to read it. I’d already heard good things …
Something I’ve really got into lately is signing up for newsletters. There’s something so glorious about them landing into your inbox, a gleaming light amongst the boring emails from your bank or the junk ones telling you you’ve won $1,000,000!!! (I have blocked these so many times, but damn they are persistent.) Anyway, I thought …
Every month when it’s time to pen this post, I open up Goodreads to remind myself of what I actually read. This month when April Wrap Up time came around, I was genuinely shocked to find that I’d read seven books. Seven! Blimey. That explains why I haven’t done much else really… It’s been a …
Two things that won’t shock anyone. 1. I miss travelling and holidays. 2. I think Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. As such, I recently picked up The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris which has been on my bookshelf for around a year now. I have …
Told you I’d be catching up on my posts, didn’t I? Here we are with my March wrap up. This may sound obvious given the nature of this blog, but I am really enjoying reading at the moment. Sometimes it falls by the wayside when life gets too busy (and that’s fine by the way) …
Luster seemed to be the book on everyone’s lips at the start of this year. My grand plans had been to look away from all the noise of new books and focus on the ones that I have outstanding to read. Within I’ll say a few days of scrolling on Instagram, I’d ordered Luster. Oops. BUY ON …
Oh um hi, so I realise it’s April but I realised with a jolt the other day how perilously behind I am with the blog in general. I’ve been popping up reviews on Instagram rather than here just because it’s quicker but I miss blogging! So better late than never (right?) here’s my February Wrap …
Was January 2021 not the longest month ever? At last count, I think it was approximately 400 days long. But no matter, we’ve done it now! And hopefully, it was a good month for you, reading or otherwise. I hadn’t realised until I started writing this post how much I had neglected my monthly wrap-ups …
I was really lucky and received some beautiful books as presents at Christmas time, including Hamnet. If you’re on bookstagram you couldn’t move for seeing this book last year. It seems like Hamnet was universally applauded, which is cemented by the fact that it won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction award. With such strong recommendations …
