This month I'm participating in Book Riot's photo challenge #riotgrams over on Instagram and today's photo prompt is 'True Stories'. To be honest, I've really only started reading non-fiction, including memoirs and biographies, pretty recently - and mostly thanks to tasks in the 2016 and 2017 Book Riot Read Harder Challenges. Today's photo prompt got me thinking about some of the non-fiction I have really loved reading over the...
India Maxwell hasn’t just moved across the country — she’s plummeted to the bottom rung of the social ladder. It’s taken years to cover the mess of her home life with a veneer of popularity. Now she’s living in one of Boston’s wealthiest neighbourhoods with her mum’s fiancé and his daughter, Eloise. Thanks to her soon-to-be stepsister’s clique of friends, including Eloise’s gorgeous,...
I'm a sucker for a local author, and a total sucker for my 3 year old getting excited about books, so when she asked me if she could 'pleeeeeeeaaaaaase' have Deer-lightful by Canberra yoga instructor Suzanna Thell, I was powerless to say no. This book really is deer-lightful. The illustrations (by Yuti McLean) are divine. It's about a musk deer who learns that sometimes to...
Ok, so this was nearly a month ago now, but it was so AMAZING that I'm still raving about it. The Sydney Writers' Festival was held at the end of May, and included a whole day dedicated to celebrating Young Adult books - All Day YA. The event included panels and interviews with authors - my friend Madeleine and I saw the following...
I'm off to see the new movie adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel today. I read the book last month and really enjoyed it (I wrote a bit about it here), so I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it on the big screen. So for today's book stack I pulled out some books we have at home that have been made into...
Hi! I have a few tiny random things to talk about, so I thought a tiny, chatty post might be in order today =) Last week I held a little poll to help me decide which book to read for the 'Read a middle grade or YA book by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+' task - the winner was Aristotle and Dante...
I had been hearing a bit of buzz about One of Us is Lying, and I was intrigued when it was pitched during the TeenCon session, and so I was really excited when I had the opportunity to review it. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. ...
I am such a sucker for a sweet cover - and When It's Real got my attention right away! Meet Oakley Ford — teen celebrity, renowned pop star, child of famous movie stars, hottie with millions of fangirls… and restless troublemaker. On the surface he has it all, but with his home life disintegrating, his music well suddenly running dry, and the tabloids...
I love seeing authors speak about their books and their writing process (actually, I love hearing about any artists' creative process!) so I jumped at the chance to go along to the launch of local Canberra author Amy Laurens' new book "Where Shadows Rise". And, I was so glad I did! The launch was a lot of fun - Amy spoke really beautifully...
I love fairy tales, and this year have been going through a bit of an obsession with reading retellings of all kinds.My latest fairy tale read, middle grade book The Ice Maiden's Tale, is a bit different - it's an original fairy tale author Lisa Preziosi wrote after being inspired by this quote by Michelangelo: "I saw an angel in the marble and...
Do you ever get nervous about reading a book because there's so much hype and you're worried that there is no way it can be as good as everyone is saying? This was me with When Dimple met Rishi. There has been SO MUCH HYPE about this book. But, you know what? It was AT LEAST as good as everyone said (yes, maybe...
A few weeks ago I came across a fun monthly meme Called My To-Be Read List, hosted by Michelle from Because Reading is Better than Real Life . It goes like this: each month you post three books from your TBR List and add a link on a linky on Michelle's blog. Your followers and the people on the linky help you choose which book you will...
Just a quick post today to say 'hi' and share my current library loan stack. These are the books I have out on loan right now and there are some good ones in there! So, the two most exciting and long awaited are Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (of The Girl on the Train fame) and Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel (the sequel to Sleeping...
