Welcome to the nonsense that is my yearly reading stats! I’ve done this since 2020, and you can find my previous stats using these links: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. If you want to see a full list of the books I read in 2025 you can check out my Read in 2025 page!… Continue reading 2025 Reading Stats
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was previously hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List I’ve thought a lot about the books I want to read before the end of the year because it’s the middle of… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Winter TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was previously hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: Freebie Oops, I treated last week as a freebie but this week is actually a freebie. Unlike last week, I’ve made up my own topic this week and that… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: 2026 Releases I’ve Pre-Ordered
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was previously hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: Thanksgiving Freebie I’m not from the US (or anywhere else that has their own version of Thanksgiving) and I’ve done the topic “books I’m thankful for” many times before… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was previously hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: Books I Enjoyed that Were Out of My Comfort Zone. Dissolution by C.J. Sansom I’m not a big historical fiction reader and I usually hate books set in the… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Getting Out of My Comfort Zone
I haven’t done a Top Ten Tuesday post in a while. In fact, I haven’t done one since May 2020. Yikes. Anyway, I want to get back into blogging regularly but I’m finding it difficult to start so here I am, once again, taking part in TTT. I’m planning to post these until the end… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: The First Ten Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelves
So, at the end of September, I posted a list of 16 books I wanted to read before the end of the year. Ambitious, considering I’d only read 24 books up to that point and still ambitious, considering how far I’ve got so far. I’m getting ahead of myself. This post is a quick update… Continue reading End-of-Year Reading List: October Update
Autumn, my favourite season, is finally here. Crisp air, cosy sweaters, and hot chocolate. What more could you ask for? It’s also usually when I hit my reading stride (if we ignore January which is always, for some reason, my best month of the year). That said… I’ve got a little confession to make. This… Continue reading Books I’ll Be Cosying Up With Before 2026
It’s that time again! Yes, it’s time for the 20 Books of Summer challenge. The #20BooksofSummer2025 challenge runs from Sunday the 1st of June to Sunday the 31st of August and you can find all the information you need about the challenge here. We have two new hosts for 2025: Annabel at AnnaBookBel and Emma at Words and Peace. I… Continue reading 10 Books of Summer 2025
April is (almost) over and that means it’s time for another round of mini reviews! The Princess Bride by William Goldman I’ll preface this by admitting that I’ve never seen the film adaptation of this so I had no idea what I was getting into. That being said, reading this was so much fun! I… Continue reading Monthly Mini Reviews – April 2025
warm days will never cease 