I’m committing the deadliest of sins and double-posting today… I had a burst of inspiration earlier to post about #booksfortradeUK, and now I’ve just decided to join Armchair BEA. So I have no choice. Double posting it is! Today’s topic is Social Media. I won’t lie – a big part of my day job is […]
#booksfortradeUK
Hey, Book Geeks! I wanted to do a quick post today to talk about a new hashtag that has been sweeping across Twitter, and that is #booksfortrade. I’m not sure how this started, but it seems to have taken off and is doing really well, especially among Book Bloggers who are always coming down with […]
I’m Late, But I’m Here! #ABEA
I was hoping to schedule some posts over the weekend, to get back into blogging with a BANG in June, but I’ve been spotting Armchair BEA posts all over the place, and as I’m suitably raging that I can’t attend the real thing, I thought I would join in with Armchair BEA this year instead 🙂 […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Books for my Beach Bag 2015
Top Ten Books That I Want In My Beach Bag Last year I did the Top Ten Books For Your Beach Bag, this year I’m unashamedly making it all about me. I’m still trying to make some time for reading and blogging after getting my dissertation out of the way last week, I’m getting there […]
New Book By Mila Gray!
Hello, Book Geeks! I know I’ve been quiet lately, but my dissertation is almost finished and then I can come back to my cosy corner of the Internet! Until then, I’m excited to be participating in the cover reveal for Mila Gray’s new book, This Is One Moment, described as “the steamy, romantic follow-up” to Come […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Books I’d Rather Be Reading Right Now
Top Ten Books I’d Rather Be Reading Right Now Instead Of Writing This Never Ending Dissertation… Well, the post title I went with was a little catchier. Typical for me that I make a big commitment to posting more often on the blog, and have some great ideas for posts, the same month my dissertation […]
I’m Featured on Inside and Out
Just a quick update post from me today 🙂 I’m busy working on my dissertation at the minute (my last one for a while, I need a break!), but I have lots of exciting things planned for the blog when I get this over me. In the meantime, I’m featured today over on Bookmark Lit […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Authors I Want to Meet
Top Ten Authors I Would Love To Meet I bet a lot of people can guess who’s going to appear on my list today… OK, we’ll start with the more obvious ones (for me), and then I’ll try to shake it up a bit! 1. J K Rowling – I’d need prior warning before this […]
Review: To Kill A Mockingbird
‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’Â A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel – a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man’s struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.
5* Read!
Sync – Free Audiobooks for 2015!
SYNC was super successful in 2014, so they are back with a *bang* for another year! Starting May 7th 2015, SYNC will give away two complete audiobook downloads for free each week – a current young adult title along with a thematically paired classic. Sign up for email or text alerts and be the first to know when […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Books I’ll NEVER Read
Top Ten Seven Books I’ll NEVER Read “Cuz we-eeee, are never, ever, ever, getting back together” – I’m not the only one who had this stuck in their head the whole way through writing this post, right? I don’t know if I can ever say I’ll never read a book. That’s pretty extreme. There are books […]
Review: The Good Psychopath’s Guide To Success
What is a good psychopath? And how can thinking like one help you to be the best that you can be?
Dr Kevin Dutton has spent a lifetime studying psychopaths. He first met former SAS hero Andy McNab during a research project. What he found surprised him. McNab is a diagnosed psychopath but he is a GOOD psychopath, able to dial up or down qualities such as ruthlessness, fearlessness, conscience and empathy to get the very best out of himself – and others. Drawing on the combination of McNab’s wild and various experiences and Dr Dutton’s expertise, together they have explored the ways in which a good psychopath thinks differently and what that could mean for you. What do you really want from life, and how can you develop and use qualities such as charm, coolness under pressure, self-confidence and courage to get it?
4* Read!
Stacking the Shelves & Wrappin’ It Up April 2015
Where the hell did April go?!? 2015 seems to be going past much quicker than I was expecting it to – we’ll be at the halfway mark to Christmas shortly, and that is just scary! This month felt like a bit of a bust for me, but we’ll put together the monthly wrap-up anyways to see how […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Male Characters Who Have My Heart
Top Ten Male Characters Who Have My Heart It’s a bit of a free pick this week – sometimes I feel like I haven’t read widely enough yet to be able to fill a TTT post on characters alone, but I do have a weak spot for my book boyfriends, so here’s ten of my […]
Review: We All Looked Up
Before the asteroid we let ourselves be defined by labels: the athlete, the outcast, the slacker, the overachiever. But then we all looked up and everything changed.
They said it would be here in two months. That gave us two months to leave our labels behind. Two months to become something bigger than what we’d been, something that would last even after the end. Two months to really live.
2.5* Read!
Top Ten Tuesday – My Author BFFs
Top Ten Author BFFs This week’s topic is Top Ten Favourite Authors. I’ve concluded that the girls at The Broke and The Bookish are just cruel. I’m going to try and not make this too predictable (I said try), I’m also linking up any reviews I’ve written for books by these authors, so here we go! […]
Confessions of a Book Geek 