I have been seeing Pumpkin Heads  - a gorgeous graphic novel by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks - all over bookstagram this month, and last week I finally caved and bought it. Here's the synopsis from Goodreads: Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world....

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This week's book for my Christmassy NetGalley-athon was Beth Moran's Christmas Every Day. While it was a perfectly fine read there was one thing that I really didn't expect, and that was a bit of a disappointment - this isn't a Christmas story. It is told over the period of a year, starting at Christmas one year and finishing the next, but really...

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I had all intentions of participating - at least some of the time - in the Dewey's 24-hour Readathon. And of posting about my tbr on Friday! But here we are on Sunday evening, the readathon almost over and me only just doing this post (and hardly having read at all this weekend!). Regardless, I thought it would still be fun to share...

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It's that time! 9 weeks to go until Christmas and I'm here with my first Christmassy review of the year (although it is technically my second festive book so far - I started with Jenny Hale's latest).  Here is the synopsis of The Christmas Countdown (from Goodreads):   Twenty-seven-year-old Holly Devine has just had her heart well and truly broken. Hurt by the...

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I hadn't read any of Juliet Marillier's books before The Harp of Kings but had heard lots of good things about her work so was really keen to check it out. Here's the synopsis (from Goodreads) Bard. Warrior. Rebel. Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is a powerful singer and an expert whistle player. Her brother has a voice to melt the hardest heart and is a...

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I know I wasn't alone in having Leigh Bardugo's first adult novel - NINTH HOUSE - on my list of most anticipated book releases this year. There has been A LOT of buzz about it, and I'm pleased to say that - in my opinion at least - it is all absolutely justified! This book absolutely blew me away - it had me...

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I don't want to alarm anyone, but today marks only 10 weeks until Christmas!  Now I know for a lot of people it's still way too early to be getting festive, but I feel like I need to be organised if I'm going to share reviews here - I want to make sure I'm recommending books in good time for you to get...

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AusYABloggers have a new Saturday prompt meme on their blog, and I thought it would be fun to join in with a little snippet from page 77 of my current read. I first saw this on my friend Star's blog - check out her post on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire here. First, the Seventy-Seven Saturday Rules: Pick up a book (your current...

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I was a relative late-comer to Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gruffalo, only picking it up at home after A already knew it very well from childcare. We were both delighted to find a copy of the second book - The Gruffalo's Child - in our letterbox from the lovely people at Pan Macmillan Australia last month.  The Gruffalo said that no...

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Hello! I always think October feels so much later in the year than September, and here we are already! September was a pretty slow reading (and blogging!) month for me - I finished two books in the first half of the month, and didn't pick up much else. This is mostly because I've been busy doing all kinds of other things - some...

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