Category: Blog

BLOG TOUR: The Burning by Laura Bates – Top 5 inspirational books for young feminists

Posted February 23, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Blog, Blog Tour, Feminism, Girl Power, Simon & Schuster, Teenage Life, YA / 2 Comments

Happy Saturday Everyone, today I’m super excited to be part of The Burning blog tour. The Burning by Laura Bates, the founder behind Everyday Sexism Project, has created a book based on events that happen in society today, the pressures of growing up and what it takes to be a young girl today. It a powerful YA novel, that every teenager needs to read. Today Laura talks about her top 5 best feminist books, which I would highly recommend too. But before that, here is a little bit more about The Burning… The Burning tells the story of fifteen-year-old […]

Fantasy Author Spotlight: Q&A with Kesia Lupo

Posted February 21, 2019 by Emma in #FantasticalFeb, ACOFIF, Blog, Bloomsbury, Fantasy, Interview, Kesia Lupo, Thriller / 3 Comments

My fantasy themed month hasn’t quite gone according to plan due to work stresses which I’m really sad about. So I’m really sorry about that. But, today I’m super excited and lucky to have the lovely Kesia Lupo, debut author of internationally highly anticaptated novel ‘We Are Blood and Thunder’ coming in April on the blog today. I’ve been very lucky to have been gifted a couple of this book, so I’m looking forward to delving into this world next month. I know it’s a long time to wait till April but to quench you thirst for this book or make you […]

Top Ten Tuesday – Books I LOVED with Fewer than 2,000 Ratings on Goodreads

Posted February 19, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Book tag, Discussion Post, Favourites, Top Ten Tuesday / 15 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. This is such a great list… when I saw it I was like how do I know how to find out about the rating rather than going through every book and all I did was select ‘num ratings’ on the settings and voila. I couldn’t believe that so many of my favourites are 2000 ratings… THIS needs to change, these books are amazing… and you NEED to […]

HARRY POTTER BOOK TAG

Posted February 7, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Book tag, Harry Potter, Magic / 9 Comments

So I’m sitting in my Harry Potter PJs and it’s the eve of Harry Potter Book Night and I saw this ages ago and I’ve added a few of my own questions and I thought it would be perfect. This isn’t a test or Pottermore…this is what you want to be… Your name in the world of Harry Potter. Elladora Goldstein (I did this through Name Generator on Bloomsbury website – Give it a go here ) What House are you? Gryfinclaw – I like being in both. Part Gryfindor and part Ravenclaw. What would be your pet companion? Owl – Georgous creatures. […]

BLOG TOUR – Q&A for A PINCH OF MAGIC by Michelle Harrison

Posted February 6, 2019 by Emma in #FantasticalFeb, 2019 Books, Blog, Blog Tour, Fantasy, Magic, Michelle Harrison, Q & A, Simon & Schuster / 2 Comments

Today I’m really excited to be part of A Pinch of Magic blog tour. I’ll be honest I haven’t read A Pinch of Magic yet but I will this month as part of my Fantasy Feb. But I have huge admiration and inspiration of Michelle Harrison, from a librarian perspective she has sparked the mind of readers. I will share with you a quick anecdote as a librarian. The student was in Year 7, she would borrow any book she could find, every new one and she would return haven’t not gotten very far. I know she’s desparate to read, […]

Introducing…A Court of Fantasy in February

Posted February 4, 2019 by Emma in #FantasticalFeb, ACOFIF, ARC, Blog, Fantasy, TBR / 4 Comments

Last Year I did a Fantastical Febraury Month and I really enjoyed it. I’ve added the tag to the top for you to have a look. It included authors such as Sara Holland, Katherine and Elizabeth Corr, Alexandra Christo and many more. I had so many brilliant authors, I discovered new fantasties and re-read my favourites. This year I thought I’m calling it A Court of Fantasy in Febraury after the amazing series last year came to an end. This month I have fantasy type blog tours with Michelle Harrison author of Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month, A Pinch […]

BLOG TOUR: REVIEW & GUEST POST – KICK THE MOON by Muhammad Khan

Posted February 3, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, 5 Stars, Blog, Blog Tour, Book Review, Comtemporary, Family, Favourites, Friendship, Macmillan Children's Books, Muhammad Khan, MyKindaBook / 0 Comments

Kick the Moon by Muhammad Khan Publisher – Macmillan Children’s Books Release Date – January 24th 2019 Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Fifteen-year-old Ilyas is under pressure from everyone: GCSE’s are looming and his teachers just won’t let up, his dad wants him to join the family business and his mates don’t care about any of it. There’s no space in Ilyas’ life to just be a teenager. Serving detention one day, Ilyas finds a kindred spirit in Kelly Matthews, who is fed up with being pigeonholed as the good girl, and their friendship blows the social strata of […]

JANUARY WRAP-UP AND FEBRUARY PLANS

Posted February 1, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, TBR, UKYA, Wrap-Up / 6 Comments

My first wrap-up post of 2019!!!! I hope your start to 2019 has been great. It’s been crazy busy for me, both personally and at work. I have to say I love the start of a new year, with more new books, it’s feels like you’re starting another reading journey. It’s also my first month on WordPress and I can’t believe how much of a difference it has made. I feel like my blogging is growing in a new way and I intend to be a bit more creative with my post but continue what I love to write on […]

MY FIRST TOP TEN TUESDAY – The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List

Posted January 29, 2019 by Emma in Blog, Discussion Post, Most Anticipated, TBR, Top Ten Tuesday / 31 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. This is my first Top Ten Tuesday, I’m not sure why I haven’t done this before, but I thought it might be something different for my blog and I always love talking to other people. The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List So the beauty of this week’s one is that I’ve recently updated my Goodreads but also I’ve been gifted/received lots of new books […]