My Bookish Intentions for 2021

Posted January 6, 2021 by Emma in Booked-In, Bookish Post, Discussion Post, Happy New Year / 9 Comments

Welcome my lovely readers to the post were we as bloggers and readers set our bookish goals. I’m actually really excited for a new year, it’s like a reset button, a fresh new take on the year. This year with a lot things will be the year I finally read more, blog more and actually enjoy it all. I really want to refresh my love of reading and sharing that with you. Especially as I don’t want to feel so pressured with reading that I have done in the past. I need to focus on the love of books. So […]

My Top Ten Books of 2020

Posted January 1, 2021 by Emma in 2020 books, Book List, Bookish Post, Favourites, UKYA, Wrap-Up, YA / 5 Comments

It’s a new year my lovely readers. Be 2020 and welcome 2021! I’m writing this with Miss Congeniality on New Year’s Day and I reliving my Top Ten Books of 2020! Last year, wasn’t my finest year for reading. But I still read some amazing literature from Children’s to Adult. I felt last year I really read outside of my comfort zone, not too much but just enough to be comfortable in reading different genres. I read some fantastic middle grade books to fluffy, contemporary adult fiction. After each of my suggestion I will add a reason why it’s my favourite […]

#UltimateBlogTour Book Review | Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

Posted December 23, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Blog Tour, Book Review, Middle Grade / 2 Comments

Hello festive readers, I left you again didn’t I!? But do not fret, today I’m really excited to be writing what will probably be my last book review of 2020 and what a way to finish the year with this incredible middle grade book. This review is part of the #UltimateBlogTour with TheWriteReads gang. I once again commend them for such an amazing tour for a coming-of-age, middle grade fantasy. So before my review, here is a little bit more about the book. My Review This review contains classified and magical information. Do not ‘Read’ without proper permissions! – Okay so […]

Blog Tour Book Review | The Cousins by Karen M. McManus

Posted December 10, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review / 1 Comment

Hello my lovely readers. I’m so excited to be part of another #UltimateBlogTour for the one and only THE COUSINS by Karen M. McManus! Massive thanks to Dave and TheWriteReads who organises epic blog tours these days. I’m really excited to share my review not only am I trying to experiment with a review style, well I think it’s new, probably shorter and not much else. But I’m going to try CAWPILE created by Book Roast, (I’ll link the video here for you) for a new rating system. I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to use this. […]

November Monthly Wrap-Up – the ‘I redesigned my blog again’ edition

Posted December 7, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Bookish Post, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Wrap-Up / 3 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms, it’s been a while since my last monthly wrap up post. I think the reason being is because reading has been a struggle the last couple of months. Since my last monthly wrap up post I was saying how I wanted to read and not blog as I didn’t have the brain power or inspiration because of work. Now it’s the complete opposite, the last month has been more blogging and very little reading. But now I think I’ve conquered it back to both. I’m excited because if you are reading this then you may notice […]

Top 5 Fictional One True Pairings (OTPs)

Posted November 25, 2020 by Emma in Book List, Booked-In, Bookish Post, YA / 4 Comments

Hello my lovely readers, I am back again with another Top 5 post. I really do love these. So back in the original lockdown I created the Booked-In series of posts, as we are once again in a similar situation, Steph BooksLoveReaders and I wanted to expand it. We are going to be doing a Top 5 series every week, so do let us know if you would like to take part and we will send the prompts in advance. Today is all about our favourite romantic pairing, soulmates, the true pairings. This is really hard as I haven’t read a […]

It’s Friday – What are you reading?

Posted November 20, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Bookish Post / 1 Comment

Happy Friday my lovely bookworms. So I’m excited because I’m finally reading and enjoying a book that I will finally finish this weekend. It’s an accomplishment to actually finish a book which I haven’t done in ages!! So I’m taking this moment to record the fact that I’m reading and tell you all about the book that has cured my reading funk. Also a nice quick post so I can get back to reading and sadly working at this time, but I’m a librarian I can sneak in the odd page or two! 😅 I missed this, my blog, so […]

Mini Book Review | The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Posted November 16, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Blog Tour, Book Review, YA / 1 Comment

Hello my lovely readers and welcome to my first review in months I think. Whoops. The last few months I’ve really struggled with the motivation to read, hence the lack of review posts. But this particular book that I’m writing my review for took me 3 weeks or so to read and a further month to review as I really did have a blogging break. But felt I really needed to review it. So before I go into my review I wanted to say that whilst it took me that long to read, it didn’t in any way effect my […]