Category: Bookish Post

MONTHLY WRAP-UP: JULY & AUGUST TBR

Posted August 2, 2019 by Emma in Bookish Post, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Summer Reading, TBR, Wrap-Up, YA / 5 Comments

Hello Book Friends. It’s been 2 months since my last wrap-up post. Work has been manic, but August is finally here, how has everyone faired with the heat last week, unbearable wasn’t it. I was reading to pretty early each morning because of it. I’m on my summer holidays and I’m on holiday tomorrow. Yay! So I’m now trying to figure out what books I want to take away with me. That always takes more time than the actual packing. I feel my absence has got noticed because of work, so I’m trying to catch up on reviews and posts […]

Friendship + Magic = A Spell – Inspired by Holly Bourne’s novella What Magic is This?

Posted July 31, 2019 by Emma in Barrington Stoke, Bookish Post, Holly Bourne, Magic, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my Book Friends – today I bring to you an inspired post from Holly Bourne’s latest book, What Magic is This? that I reviewed last week. I loved it and if you know me you will know that Holly is one of my all time favourite authors. I felt inspired by this novella so I created a spell, with a little help from Barrington Stoke and Holly Bourne. This spell and this novella is something for you whether you believe in magic or not, whether you loved magical friendships like Harry Potter (- which I’m sure you all do.) […]

Top Ten Tuesday – Books On My Summer 2019 TBR

Posted June 25, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Bookish Post, LGBTQ+, Summer Reading, TBR, Top Ten Tuesday, YA / 14 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday Is A Weekly Meme Hosted By The Lovely Ladies At The Artsy Reader Girl! Each Week, A New Topic Is Put Into Place And Bloggers Share Their Top Ten Accordingly. Ah I love this theme this week. As a librarian I’m always excited by my summer reading … why because I get 6 weeks off. The benefits of working in a school. Although I admit I probably have more than 10 books on my TBR. It’s all the books I never get too and more. Also as a school librarian we have a long list to read too […]

Top Ten Tuesday – Most Anticipated Releases of the Second Half of 2019

Posted June 18, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Bookish Post, Most Anticipated, TBR, Top Ten Tuesday / 13 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday Is A Weekly Meme Hosted By The Lovely Ladies At The Artsy Reader Girl! Each Week, A New Topic Is Put Into Place And Bloggers Share Their Top Ten Accordingly. The last time I did a most anticipated was the beginning of the year, how are we half way through 2019 already. There has been some A-M-A-Z-I-N-G books coming. I have to say I seem to favouring a lot of UKYA lately, so be prepared for some more. Here are my Top Ten Books I’m looking forward too in the next part of 2019. What Magic is This? […]

Monthly Plans – May Wrap-Up and June TBR

Posted June 1, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, TBR, Wrap-Up / 2 Comments

Hello Book Friends, 1st of June and I’m on a roll with my wrap-up post this month. The last week I’ve been on half-term, I’ve been reading but not that much in the mood for blogging. As it’s now coming to an end I’m sceduling reviews left right and center, before I’m crazy busy at work for our last half -term of the school year. I have to say working in a school makes the year goes uber quick – if there are people reading this and your education are you like me that goes “Only 6 and half weeks […]

NEW BLOG SERIES – A Booklover Tells All…Do you miss the Dark Romance section in Waterstones?

Posted May 22, 2019 by Emma in A Booklover Tells All, Blog, Bookish Post, Discussion Post, Feature, Featured / 5 Comments

Hello Booklovers. The last couple of months I’ve been thinking about doing a blog series of discussion posts, but wasn’t sure what to do. So let me introduce ‘A Booklover Tells all…’ a blog series with some personal book stories, memories or things I’ve come across in the bookish world. These posts maybe completely random topics, topics of meaning and any topics you want me to talk about. This combines my love of books as a reader, book blogger and as a librarian so it’s perfect. So I hope you enjoy today’s post. Do you remember this? Twilight for me […]

BUMPER EDITION – April Wrap-Up and May TBR & New Design!

Posted May 6, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Most Anticipated, TBR / 0 Comments

Hi Everyone! I’m finally getting round to doing my Wrap-up of April and we are well and truly into May now. It was this time last month when I was looking forward to my holiday and now it’s over. However, now we are starting to plan our next adventure. Easter holidays are over and I’m back to work in the last term. Crazy! April has been a very successful month for me both on the blog and reading. It was a month that I really enjoyed every single book. I also found TWO favourite books of the year too! I’m […]

Let’s Talk YA #3 – True Friendship, Love, & Hope

Posted April 26, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Contemporary, Feature, Friendship, Growing Up, Let's Talk Books, Love, Non Pratt, Reality, Teenage Life, UKYA, Walker Books, YA / 0 Comments

Emily from A Short Book Lover and I have created a weekly feature called Let’s Talk YA. – a weekly feature simply to just share and talk about the books you love. So our posts will all be centered around amazing UKYA authors. You can see the pattern here that a lot of the author and books I’m picking are the ones that really left an impression on me and are likely to be their first book, their debut that set them on that journey. This week’s author is Non Pratt and her book Trouble. I was reminded by this book […]

Let’s Talk YA #2

Posted April 19, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Bookish Post, Contemporary, Electric Monkey, Feature, Friendship, Growing Up, Let's Talk Books, Lisa Heathfield, Reality, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Emily from A Short Book Lover and I have created a weekly feature called Let’s Talk YA. – a weekly feature simply to just share and talk about the books you love. So our posts will all be centered around amazing UKYA authors. So continuing with our feature, this week’s author is Lisa Heathfield and the first book I absolutely loved emotionally was Paper Butterflies. I picked this book today because I’m currently reading something of the same genre, and it reminded me of when I first really discovered such emotional and harrowing stories. I read this book at the beginning […]