April is my birthday month, so between getting some books as presents from others and feeling like I 'deserve' to buy myself a few extra treats, it is generally a pretty big haul month. This time around there have also been a couple of events I've shopped for/at (although, after not purchasing a single book at Speculate yesterday I'm feeling quite well behaved...

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I picked up The Queen's Rising because I find it pretty much impossible to pass up a book being sold as "perfect for fans of Six of Crows and Sarah J Maas" (yes I'm a marketer's dream haha). This comparison wasn't far off the mark - The Queen's Rising delivered a tough young woman main character and a bunch of espionage and political...

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The Last of the Bonegilla Girls is a brand new novel (released today!) that ticks a whole lot of boxes for things I like to read - it's historical fiction, it's the story of 'ordinary' women, it's set in Australia, and written by an Australian women. Beyond this I wasn't really sure what to expect from this book. What I got was a...

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Sarah Epstein's debut novel Small Spaces - a YA psychological thriller about a girl with a 'gruesome' imaginary (or is he?!) friend - was on my list of most anticipated #loveozya for 2018, so I was absolutely thrilled when the lovely people at Walker Books sent me a review copy! Also, check out how cool the ARC looks *insert heart eyes emoji here!*...

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Happy Friday everyone! I'm extra excited this week, since it's my birthday next week AND I have the whole of next week off, PLUS I have something bookish to look forward to every weekend from now until mid-May. On top of all those reasons to be excited,  today is AUTUMN COSY READING NIGHT! Cosy Reading Night is a readathon hosted by the lovely...

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Hello! Welcome to top ten Tuesday (on Wednesday!) Top ten Tuesday is hosted each week by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl, and this week was a 'choose your own theme' freebie. I thought I'd share 10 books from my TBR that are new and upcoming releases that publishers have kindly given me - either in physical copies or ebooks. The links will...

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In all my time reading and loving to talk books with others, I have never ever been part of the kind of book club where you all read the same book and then meet to discuss it! So when my local bookstore announced that they had a book club starting up this month I was super excited to be a part of it....

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Hello! Happy Sunday! This week's #BookishBloggersUnite is being hosted by Tina from TBR, etc, and the theme is 'Best Literary Opening Lines. This was a tricky one for me! I love beautiful language and clever passages in books, but have absolutely zero memory for literary quotes - most of the ones that came to mind were because they are well known as quotes,...

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It's TBR time! Here's my stack for April... I'm honestly not that great at sticking to my TBR, partly because I tend to base it around a stack like this when in real life I have a bunch of stuff to read on my Kindle too haha. So really this is more of a 'books I'll probably choose from when I need something...

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The start of April means we are already a quarter of the way through the year! This week (actually last week, insert embarrassed eye-roll emoji here haha) in our #BookishBloggersUnite posts, we thought it would be fun to have a look back at the year so far. The host for the week was Laura from That Library Lady - make sure you pop...

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Another case of me having a book on my TBR FOREVER, and finally reading it so I can see the movie/tv adaptation - a friend gave me Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda (which has been retitled Love, Simon, to match the movie) I  think for my birthday in April last year (it could have been longer ago!). There has been so much...

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