Fantasy Feb | My Ultimate Fantasy Reading List

Posted February 12, 2020 by Emma in Discussion Post, Fantasy, Fantasy Feb, UKYA, YA / 3 Comments

Happy Wednesday my bookish friends. We are half way through the week and half way closer to the weekend and for me a week off. Yay! I’m continuing my fabulous Fantasy Feb content today with the best post ever – a reading list! This reading list had no limits, what it is, is my Ultimate reading list of Fantasy Books. So I will keep adding to it. But for now these are the books that everyone should read and certainly my favourites.* *Side note – I was scrolling through my Goodreads to check through all of the fantasy books I’ve […]

BLOG TOUR | Guest Post & New Author Series – Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Posted February 10, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Blog Tour, Dystopian, Guest Post, Most Anticipated, MyKindaBook, YA / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone, Happy Monday! Well I hope it’s a happy one for you. I love starting the week off with promoting one of my anticipated reads of this year – WILDER GIRLS by Rory Power. I first heard about this book back last summer and I kept on seeing it across social media – I knew I needed to read it. The cover alone is gorgeous. So I’m super excited to kick this blog tour off for the UK publication of Wilder Girls. I have my copy ready to read so in the meantime for my review I have a […]

Harry Potter Book Night | My Harry Potter Journey

Posted February 6, 2020 by Emma in Bookish Post, Discussion Post, Harry Potter / 1 Comment

Hello my Wizarding friends. So today is Harry Potter Book Night! I did my event at work yesterday – here’s me in my full Ravenclaw gear! It’s was an exhausting event to host but I honestly love sharing the magic of Harry Potter with my students! As it’s Harry Potter themed I thought I’d would talk about Harry Potter and had grown as an adult. Happee Birthdae Emma! I got the first book on my 7th birthday from my aunt! So that’s 18 years ago! I read it and guess how long it to me! A year! 😂 I was […]

January Monthly Wrap-Up | Introducing Fantasy Feb

Posted February 3, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Discussion Post, Fantasy, Fantasy Feb, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Wrap-Up, YA / 2 Comments

Hello my bookish friends! The first month of 2020 is over! How can that be!? It did go on for a while I have to say, but then the last week just went by so quickly. It’s been a really weird month, work has been crazy. I think I say that a lot. Haha. Start a new term and lots of big decisions lie ahead as well. Planning for World Book Day and Harry Potter Book Night, honestly it never stops. It was also a month of new year goals. Mine were to read and blog more. I’ve done one […]

BLOG TOUR | Review & Guest Post – Follow Me, Like Me by Charlotte Seager

Posted January 30, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, 4.5 Stars, Book Review, UKYA / 2 Comments

Hello my Book Friends, It’s Thursday, nearly the weekend. Today I’m really excited to be part of the blog tour for Charlotte Seager’s latest book, Follow Me, Like Me. I finished this book yesterday, I loved it I couldn’t put it down! As part of my stop on the blog tour I’m sharing with you a mini review of the book alongside a guest post about the dangers of catfishing. It’s so interesting and kinda scary too. I really hope you enjoy it. But before that here is a little bit more about the book. My Review So as I […]

BOOK REVIEW | Haven’t They Grown by Sophie Hannah

Posted January 27, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Adult Fiction, Book Review, Psychological Thriller, Thriller / 0 Comments

My first thriller of 2020 and it certainly won’t be my last. Lately my taste in books is changing. YA will forever be my got to for escape. But ever since I’ve read books by Riley Sager I seem to dipping into adult thrillers. I like this new side of my reading. I love how I’m totally surprised by what I’m reading and this book is no exception of that. We follow Beth, a mum of two teenagers. She was best friends with Flora, but suddenly 12 years ago, they spilt, never to be seen ago. To Beth it stemmed from […]

NEW | Self-Care for Bookworms

Posted January 20, 2020 by Emma in Bookish Post, Discussion Post, Self-Care for Bookworms / 3 Comments

Morning my fellow bookworms. Today I bring to you a a potentially new feature for the blog. I was thinking about this post at Christmas time when I was taking a break from everything. Our mental health is key. We need to look after ourselves especially us as bookworms. We have day-to-day jobs, and reading is our relaxation but sometimes we need to be relaxed first to enjoy our books. So this post is tips from one bookworm to another that we need our own self-care routine. Welcome to Self-Care for Bookworms! Tip #1 – Take a Break A week […]

Revamped Feature | Let’s Talk YA #1

Posted January 17, 2020 by Emma in Bookish Post, Let's Talk Books / 1 Comment

Hello my Bookish Friends. It’s Friday! Yay! What better way to kick off than with a old feature but revamped for 2020. Let’s Talk YA started with my co-host Emily from A Short Book Lover. It’s all about talking books rather than just liking and Retweeting posts. So today I’m kicking it off again and this time it will be about any book we’ve ever loved. It could be an old favourite. A forgotten book and not just UKYA. We are mixing it up. So this will be a weekly feature unless I have something else planned. So welcome to […]

DISCUSSION | How to track your Reading

Posted January 13, 2020 by Emma in Bookish Post, Discussion Post / 8 Comments

Morning my lovely readers. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. I think we all needed after our first week back to work. Last year on Twitter, I hosted loads of polls about reading and blogging and one them is about how people track their reading. I was really intrigued to be honest, there isn’t just Goodreads which is what I ultimately use to be honest there is so much more. So today I thought I would draw together all the ideas in this post and also talk about how I’m going to track my reading for 2020. Tracking your Reading […]