My Christmas TBR List

Christmas is a time for turkey, mulled wine, and books!

My Top Seven books of 2015

As 2015 draws to a close, everyone seems to fall in love with lists; our top fives, tens, fifteens, twenties; the challenges we’ve completed; what we’re planning to read next year; the heroes we simpered over – anything and everything bookish you can think of, there's a list for it. Once I started reading end …

Friday Finds #5 – 15th October

Friday Finds is hosted by A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do to join in is showcase the books you’ve recently found and added to your TBR. My Friday Finds for this week are: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things The Bees The Paper Magician Jon McGregor Laline Paull Charlie N. Holmberg What do you …

Friday Finds #4 – 9th October

Friday Finds is hosted by A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do to join in is showcase the books you’ve recently found and added to your TBR. My Friday Finds for this week are: The Heart Goes Last Stone Mattress The Martian Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood Andy Weir What do you think of my …

Stoptober TBR

It’s been about a month since I started my new job and I’ve gotten settled into my commute – 50 minutes each way on a train makes for great reading time. It’s also Stoptober here in the UK – a campaign to get people to stop smoking. I don’t smoke, but my book-buying habits have …

Friday Finds #4 – 18th September

Friday Finds is hosted by A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do to join in is showcase the books you’ve recently found and added to your TBR. My Friday Finds for this week are: The Hanging Tree Where my Heart Used to Beat All the Light we Cannot See Ben Aaronovitch Sebastian Faulks Anthony …

Friday Finds #3 – 11th September

Friday Finds is hosted by A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do to join in is showcase the books you’ve recently found and added to your TBR. My Friday Finds for this week are: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell A Brief History of Time Purity Susanna Clarke Stephen Hawking Jonathan Franzen What do you …

Friday Finds #2 – 4th September

Friday Finds is hosted by A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do to join in is showcase the books you’ve recently found and added to your TBR. My Friday Finds for this week are: Communion Town Quiet The Diamond Throne Sam Thompson Susan Cain David Eddings What do you think of my finds? What …

Friday Finds #1 – 26th August

My first Friday Meme! Friday Finds is hosted by A Daily Rhythm. All you have to do to join in is showcase the books you’ve recently found and added to your TBR. My Friday Finds for this week are: Ember in the Ashes Mao: The Unknown Story Raw Blood Sabaa Tahir Jon Halliday Catriona Ward What …

Spring Book Haul

You may or may not remember, but I have imposed a book-buying ban on myself a few times…ok more than a few times. As with most book lovers, I have this strange impulse to: Go into bookshops. Buy at least one book (normally three) each time I go into a bookshop. This is a curse …

Spring Round Up

I have a serious amount of reviews to catch up on and, if you know me at all, you’d know that I’d rather be reading (my current book is sat by me, whispering ‘read me’ ever so softly in my ear!). So, here’s a quick spring round up to get up to date. Big Brother, …

Reading Resolutions for 2015

I’ve been blogging for a while now, and last year, I got – shall we say – a little excited with all the challenges and resolutions everyone was talking about. I’m in the middle of 3 different challenges, as well as being part of the Classics Club. So how did I do in 2014? 1. …

August Wrap Up

Apparently, not having a TBR list really works for me – I managed another 8 books this month. Once again I didn’t read any classics and didn’t even look at my TBR jar – I’ve been so guilty I’ve hidden it under my bed. Next month, I will definitely read at least 1 classic and …

July Wrap Up

It’s been an extraordinarily random month for reading. Instead of having a TBR, I decided to freestyle my book choices (as normal humans do) and pick what I felt like, when I felt like it. Unsurprisingly, it seems to have worked; I’ve read 7 books to completion. My only downfall was that, for a second month …

June TBR

It is officially the summer! And what are my plans for the next three months? Laze about in parks and read, obviously. I'll also be doing a lot of DIY for the new flat, so I'll be broke again this month, which means even more reading as I won't be able to afford a social …

May Wrap Up

I started writing this post and completely forgot what I had read in May; thankfully, I have a handy (and very geeky) spreadsheet that acts as a reminder for when I have temporary mind blanks. Looking at my first book, I couldn't quite believe that I read it in May, it feels like it was so long …

May TBR

It is the month of my birth (26 this year – aarggh!) and the birth of about 6 other friends (what is it about May and babies?!). It will also be my first full month at work, and my first full month at my new flat. A lot of firsts, apparently. This means that I …

April Wrap Up

It's been an insane month for me, I've moved house and started a new job (aaargghh!). Between unpacking boxes, doing DIY and reading my lovely new department's list of books I've barely had the time to read anything of my own. Or blog, for that matter (sorry about that!). But things will hopefully start settling …

March Wrap Up

Whilst writing this post, I had to do a double take on the number of books I’ve completed this month. It feels like I haven’t read at all but in actual fact I’ve gotten through nine books….nine! I have no idea how this happened, as it’s been a really busy month for me. I’ve been …

March TBR

There are quite a few books I want to get through this month. OK, scrap that – there are quite a few books I want to get through in life but it seems that there are many that I would like to get though immediately. To make matters worse (or better, depending on your level …