Category: Book List

Read for Empathy – 5 Books that I empathise with…

Posted June 8, 2023 by Emma in Book List, Bookish Post / 2 Comments

Hello my bookish friends, Happy Empathy Day! This is run by the charitable reading organisation, EmpathyLab. It celebrates books and stories that helps us see, understand and feel. I have celebrated it at work, as a school librarian since it first started 6 years ago. I love celebrating another way to promote books and understand why they are so important to us and not about the escapism. It’s also about the importance of representation of us and our feelings. So I thought I would recommend 5 books that I’ve empathised with… 5 Books Recommendations for Read for Empathy How Hard Can […]

5 Book Recommendations for Mental Health Awareness Week

Posted May 21, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Hiya my lovely readers. This last week has been Mental Health Awareness Week and this is a something I’m very passionate about. As a reader but also as a school librarian as well. Book are a huge part that can help understand but also ease the struggle that is our mental health. We will struggle with it at one point or another in our lives but know this. You are not alone… The theme this year is ‘anxiety’. I know I have suffered with this, more so because of the pandemic and I think that hasn’t helped a lot of […]

My Most Anticipated Reads of 2023

Posted January 31, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 3 Comments

Evening all, I can’t believe January has gone and now we are in February tomorrow and I still haven’t shared my most anticipated new releases of 2023. So better late than never. Two of them in them have already been released but these were my highly anticipated ones, one of which I’ve nearly finished. My goal is to read each and every one of them. There’s a few familar faces for sure. So lets head straight to it… The Stolen Heir by Holly BlackSince reading for the first time The Folk of the Air series last year, I love that […]

My Top Ten Books of 2022 – The Best Reading Year so far…

Posted December 30, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, Best Books, Book List, Bookish Post, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my wonderful readers. With 2023 fast approaching in the next couple of days I think it’s about time I reflected on my year of reading and select my top 10 books. I feel this year not only have I read more than last year but I also completed by Goodreads Reading challenge for the first time in ages. I have also read more diversly this year and read books that have been on my TBR in forever. I feel this year has been the best reading year in a very long time. So choosing my top 10 was really […]

The books that shaped me as a reader – The ‘Twilight’ Years!

Posted April 29, 2022 by Emma in Blog, Book List, Bookish Post, Favourites / 0 Comments

Happy Friday my lovely bookworms. It’s so close to the weekend and may bank holiday for us in the UK. Three days of relaxing and reading and I can’t wait. Last week I started a mini feature on the blog, inspired by World Book Day ‘You are a Reader’, it got my thinking about my reading journey. Last week’s post you traveled back to where it all begun ‘ The Books that shaped me as a reader – The Early Years’ and this week I am back with the next part to my reading journey. If you can guess from […]

The books that shaped me as a reader – The Early Years!

Posted April 22, 2022 by Emma in Blog, Book List, Bookish Post, Favourites / 4 Comments

Happy Friday my fellow bookworms. This post was semi written around the time of World Book Day. They celebrated 25 years this year and as a librarian I celebrated in style – dressed as my favourite character which was Bella from Twilight. Anyways the theme was ‘You are a Reader’ and it got my thinking about my reading journey and the books that have shaped me. I’ve decided to go in chronological order from when I was toddler, too now in 5 blog posts. I really hope you enjoy this post, I even used the original covers that I had […]

My Top 5 favourite female writers & characters in YA!

Posted March 14, 2022 by Emma in Book List, Bookish Post, Favourite Author, Feminism, Holly Bourne, UKYA, YA / 2 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms, these days I seem to be writing loads of posts and then they stay in my drafts. This was meant to go out last week but Last week was International Women’s Day and it got me thinking and I really wanted to share some of my favourite female writers who create fierce female character we aspire to be or inspired by their character. It will come to no surprise about some of the books that I’m talking about today, but some of these are the strongest female authors and character I’ve read. So without furhter ado […]

Twenty Twenty One – My Top 10 Books of the year

Posted January 3, 2022 by Emma in 2021 Books, 5 Stars, Best Books, Blog, Book List, Bookish Post, UKYA, Wrap-Up / 0 Comments

Hello it’s me again, I am on a roll at the moment with blogging and I am loving it. I’m starting as I mean to go on. So today is all about the books I loved during 2021. I have to say the it’s quite varied and I love seeing how my tastes have changed. I can’t wait to see what my reading is like year! So let’s get to the nitty gritty part of the post with my top 10 books of the year! As my reading is drastically lower than normal with life and I haven’t reviewed every […]

Reading Update: 5 Books I’m looking forward to reading next

Posted April 13, 2021 by Emma in 2021 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, TBR / 3 Comments

Hello fellow bookworms, hope we are doing well. Bookshops are open this week and I can’t wait to go into one, hopefully today! I’m trying to get back into blogging and I’ve written loads of ideas down. So to start back my comeback and getting back into a blogging routine I thought I would share with you a reading update and the 5 books I’m going to be reading next. These books are a mixture of blog tours, arcs and books I’m excited to read that have been long awaited. But first I thought I would share my thoughts on […]