I really enjoy historical fiction. It is such an easy way to learn some history, and with all their scandal and battles for power historical fictions set in royal courts are especially fun. That's what led me to pick up Anne O'Brien's The Shadow Queen when I saw it was available for review, and I was really glad I did! When I first started reading I...
Tomorrow I'm off on a bookish adventure - to the All Day YA event, being held as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival. These are just some of the books on my TBR by authors I'll be seeing tomorrow - I am really super excited! So this week I've been reading from this pile - I went with Lynette Noni's Medoran Chronicles to start with, and read the first book...
Some see it… Some don’t… People in the town of Deer Park, Texas are vanishing. There is a strange museum, known as Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault, that appears overnight. Perrie Madeline’s best friend and ex-boyfriend are among the missing. Perrie, along with her friend August, go on a pursuit to search for them in the mysterious museum. Could the elusive Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass...
Do you ever read something and that starts you off on a hunt for as many books with a similar theme as you can find? This happens to me pretty often - I pick something up and all of a sudden need to read alllll the books about witches, or cults, or coming of age, or space operas, or classics, or whatever. I...
Lots of stuff happening today, so I thought I'd do a catch up post covering a bunch of bits and pieces...Made it Monday!Along with books and reading, craft is my absolute favourite. So when I came across Made It Monday on Amy Laurens' blog I was excited to join in. These little blossoms I've been working on for a couple of months now, slowly in...
Another middle grade war book today - this time we are in the US in 1968. It's summer and Joyce has moved into a tent on the roof because everything in her house is too weird (her sister sees UFOs and her brother is MIA in Vietnam). Magnin has done a wonderful job of writing from a child's point of view. I found the...
Until recently I'm sure I had read very little fiction set in or around World War II. One of the tasks in the Read Harder Challenge this year is to read a book about war, and all of a sudden they are popping up all over my TBR list!This was a birthday present, which S picked up because I have been talking about...
This morning as I was poking around some book blogs I came across the Bout of Books read-a-thon It sounded like fun so, taadah!, here I am signing up. I'm technically a little late, since the Read-a-thon started yesterday, but thanks to time zones it isn't too late to sign up.Here's some information about Bout of Books from their blog:The Bout of Books read-a-thon...
What is it with library holds all coming in at the same time? Some of these I've had on hold since last December, maybe even earlier! And then, just when I was feeling smug for having only one book out, a couple came in at once (and I picked up a few extras too!) One of the books in the stack (The Secret Keeper)...
We have a fantastic local comic book store which we visit pretty much every Saturday morning (Sam has a standing weekly order with them). It's always a fun part of the weekend - while Sam checks out the new releases Amelia and I have a browse around and she points out characters she knows on the comics and merch, and has a chat...
I think I mentioned in my first post that I have just recently discovered booktube, and have been loving watching fellow book-lovers talk about their favourite books and bookish things. One of differences I've noticed between booktube and, say, podcasts, or bookstagram, or other online places where I've been getting book recommendations, is that booktubers seem to talk a lot more about backlist...
I thought it might be fun to do a "currently reading" post every so often, to capture a snapshot of not only what I'm reading but also what my 3yr old daughter is into right now (because I think that's a pretty cool thing to have a record of, right? I'd love one of those baby/childhood milestone books based entirely around literary milestones!)So,...
