Books

Before last month I would always have described myself as more of a mood reader; someone who didn’t like to stick to rigid TBR lists but actually I was quite impressed with how I did with January’s TBR. As I mentioned in my monthly wrap…

In 2015 I set myself some very definite goals for the year and achieved exactly ZERO of them.  So in 2016 I decided I wasn’t going to set myself anything specific but just have a general gist of what I wanted to achieve.  Whilst I…

It is probably safe to say that I crawled over the reading finishing line in December.  I don’t know whether I had just exhausted my brain (I read 71 books in 2016, beating my Goodreads challenge of 50!) or whether I just chose the wrong…

I think it’s fair to say that I’ve always had a bit of a ‘thing’ about reading.  When you’ve moved house as often as we have it becomes pretty apparent, pretty quickly, which items you have the most of and books definitely falls into that…

I was pretty impressed with my reading over September.  I had imagined I’d feel a bit slumpy after reading so many great books over the summer but luckily that didn’t turn out to be the case and although I slogged my way through one 850 page book…

I have to admit that as much as I am lamenting the end of summer, I am actually pretty excited about the arrival of autumn as it is pretty much my favourite season.  I love the excuses to wear all my knitted grey jumpers (of…

Way back in May (gosh how long ago does that seem!) I set myself a Summer TBR list here on the blog.  Then I filmed a video in June and changed it a little bit and now, as we reach the end of summer I…

It’s no secret that I love reading and at the start of the year I decided to blend a slightly different focus into my Youtube content and began sharing regular book videos.  I was excited to discover that there is a whole community of ‘booktubers’…