I wanted to put together a discussion on what makes a “great reader” – is it someone who is well read (whatever definition you place on that), is it someone who is well versed in classics, or is it someone who reads 100 books a year? When trying to piece together my thoughts I ended up […]
You Want Me To DEFACE My Books?!
So, here’s my history with annotating books. I don’t do it. I’ve never had the urge to do it, I’ve never really understood why someone would want to do it. It just feels… wrong. That being said, I do enjoy making notes in and highlighting sections of eBooks, but that’s not the same thing is it? It […]
Confession: I’m Being A Bad Blogger
I knew it was too good to last. I just knew it.
Top Ten Tuesday – Inspiring Quotes From Books
Top Ten Inspiring Quotes From Books I LOVE words. I love the power of them, the beauty of them and the emotion in them. However, while I love quotes, I don’t write them down anywhere to have a collection I can look back on. Perhaps this is something I should introduce? Do any of you […]
Author Guest Post – Animal Stories: Not Just For Kiddies
What do you first think of when someone says “talking animals”? I’ll bet you have images of fuzzy huggables like Peter Rabbit, The Jungle Book — or, if you’re thinking about more recent examples, maybe Phillip Pullman’s drunk bear Iorik Byrnison.
All these examples have one thing in common – they’re mostly for kids. None of them are characters you’d think of as catering to adults, right? Somehow talking animals easily sound like a childish device, as something we grow out of. But should we?
Top Ten Tuesday – Characters I’d Love To Check In With!
Top Ten Characters I’d Love To Check In With I always want to reread books, and yet I rarely do. Sometimes rereading books feels like catching up with old friends, and sometimes you wish you could get a “10 years later” peek into the lives of your favourite characters. Here are ten I’d love to […]
3 Month Challenge Check-In!
I started this blog in March of 2014, so I was a little late (and far too disorganized!) to sign up to any challenges last year. I knew I wanted to change that for 2015, and went about selecting my challenges carefully, making sure I didn’t sign up to too many, and trying to ensure […]
Stacking the Shelves & Wrappin’ It Up March 2015
The Books: I have a massive girl-crush on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so when I spotted three of her novels – Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah on The Book People for £4.99 I could not pass those up! I also got three books from Philippa Gregory’s Order of Darkness YA series on The […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Books I’ve Recently Added To My TBR
Top Ten Books I’ve Recently Added To My TBR We add like 10 books a day to our TBRs, right? Am I right?! I’m only going to mention books I’ve added to my physical TBR, which means I now own them and therefore have a far higher chance of reading them… someday. I’m posting my […]
Confessions of a Book Geek turns 1!
Guys and gals, I can’t believe I’m writing this post… but Confessions of a Book Geek has turned 1! Where has the year gone?! When I first started blogging, I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing (sometimes I feel like I still don’t) but I went with it, and I’m so glad I did. […]
My “Celeb” Personality Counterparts
Way back when Cait @ Paper Fury was still blogging as The Notebook Sisters she did a post about her Myers Briggs personality type. Being an avid psychology fan, and working in the corporate field for a good few years now, I’ve come across this before, and I’ve always found it to be ridiculously accurate. For anyone […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Books From My Childhood I’d Love to Revisit
Top Ten Books From My Childhood I’d Love To Revisit I constantly struggle with the urge to reread – I want to do it SO much more than I do, but with so many new reads building up on my TBR, I rarely get the chance. I’m signed up to the 2015 Reread Challenge, and […]
Review: The DUFF
17 year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “Duffy,” she throws her Coke in his face.
But things aren’t so great at home right now. Desperate for a distraction, Bianca ends up kissing Wesley. And likes it. Eager for escape, she throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with Wesley. Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out that Wesley isn’t such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.
2* Read!
Review: Dumped – Stories of Women Unfriending Women
Being dumped by a woman-friend is excruciating: you expect romantic relationships to break up eventually but you don’t expect it from your friendships. And when it happens, you feel as though there should be an Adele song for you but there isn’t. Dumped: Women Unfriending Women fills that void, exploring the universal experience of being discarded by those from whom you expected more. The essays in Dumped aren’t stories of friendship dying a mutually agreed upon death, or of falling out of touch and reconnecting years later to find you haven’t missed a beat. These are stories by established and emerging authors who, like you, may have found themselves erased, without context. These, like your own, are stories that stay with you, maybe for a lifetime.
4* Read!
What is the POINT of pre-ordering?!?
Here’s the backstory – I hadn’t pre-ordered a book for years until I got back into reading again in 2012. I read and loved Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth, and was lucky to have found the series just before the release of the third and final book, Allegiant. I was so excited that books […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Books on My Spring TBR
Top Ten Books on My Spring TBR Pile It can’t be that time of year again?! I missed last week’s TTT for the first time in a year. I was so busy with work, and thought I’d post late, but it dragged on for that long that I abandoned any hope of getting it up before […]
Confessions of a Book Geek 