Category: LGBTQ+

Book Review | The Paper and Hearts Society: Read with Pride by Lucy Powrie

Posted May 27, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Book Review, Favourite Author, LGBTQ+, UKYA / 2 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms. Happy Wednesday! On Monday I was talking about Books and Books and I’m so excited to read the sequel to The Paper and Hearts Society. I literally just finished Read with Pride last night and I have so much to say about it, so here is my fangirly review, I hope you enjoy it. I loved it! My Review In The Paper and Hearts Society, I found me people, I found my inner Tabby, she is my teenage self. Read with Pride spoke to me in a different way, from the point of a librarian and […]

Let’s Talk Books | In the Mind of an Author – Camp by L.C. Rosen

Posted May 22, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, In the Mind of an Author, Let's Talk Books, LGBTQ+, YA / 0 Comments

Happy Friday my lovely bookworms, it’s nearly the bank holiday week and half-term for many of us. It feels kind of strange doesn’t it?! But I will be enjoying it by escaping in literary worlds of new found favourites and enjoying the sunshine. I digress, Today I’m merging two of my features, Let’s Talk Books and In the Mind of an Author for an exciting post. Don’t forget to head over to Emily at A Short Book Lover to see her pick for Let’s Talk Books. Let’s Talk Books, formerly Let’s Talk YA, is a weekly series where we are […]

Book Review | Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales

Posted May 18, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Book Review, LGBTQ+, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my lovely readers, today I’m sharing my review of Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales. ‘Tell me more, tell me more how good is this book?” I’m sorry I couldn’t resist starting my review in a sing song of Grease. After all it is a queer imagining of Grease, so I couldn’t not. It might not be the last either. I also happened to have watched Grease fairly recently so I was so up for this. My Review ‘I met a guy crazy for me and he met a boy as cute as can be.’ Ollie’s family changes their […]

Let’s Talk Books | EXTRACT – The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

Posted May 15, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Bookish Post, Extract, Let's Talk Books, LGBTQ+ / 0 Comments

Happy Friday my lovelies! Today myself and Emily from A Short Book Lover, are back with Let’s Talk Books. Together we’ve created list of all of the books coming out and going in release order. Let’s Talk Books, formerly Let’s Talk YA, is a weekly series where we are highlighting particular books (Teen/YA/ Adult etc) coming out during this time, we will review, or get bookish content from authors and so much more. We will then start to focus on books that are maybe underrated in the future and build a conversation about it. It’s all very exciting and we […]

BOOKED-IN | My top releases this Spring – Part 1

Posted March 30, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Booked-In, Bookish Post, LGBTQ+, Seasonal Reads, UKYA, YA / 2 Comments

Hello my bookish friends, happy Monday, hope you had a good weekend and you and your families are well. Back in January I started a new Seasonal Reads post where I spilt up all the most anticipated reads of the year in seasons. It’s Spring but also we are living in an upside down world where authors have books coming out and they struggling as they have no launch events. My first top tip in my Booked-In post was – PRE-ORDERING/ORDERING FROM WATERSTONES OR INDEPENDENT BOOK STORES TO DELIVER TO HOME. So this post is PART 1 as there is […]

UKYA Mini Reviews – SING (Like No One’s Listening) by Vanessa Jones & Alex in Wonderland by Simon James Green

Posted August 22, 2019 by Emma in Book Review, Friendship, LGBTQ+, Mini-Review, Music, Summer, UKYA / 3 Comments

Hi Everyone, It’s been a long time since I’ve done some book reviews, I have quite a few to catch up on, some going back to May. 🙊 Today I bring you two very different but perfect Summer YA reads. I would like to point out that by doing mini-reviews this is in no a bad reflection of the books. It sometimes nice to do short and sweet reviews. Do you like the Step-Up movies? Well your in for a treat. I loved this book, whilst it had elements of that finding your talent or where you fit in, with the […]

Blog Tour: Review – Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

Posted July 22, 2019 by Emma in 2019 Books, Blog Tour, Book Review, LGBTQ+ / 1 Comment

Happy Monday everyone. I’ve been ill this weekend so I wasn’t sure if I would make my post for this blog tour. But I have go me! Today I’m super excited to be part of the blog tour for GIRLS OF PAPER AND FIRE BY NATASHA NGAN organised by the lovely Kate from Hodder who have me the opportunity to read and review this powerful book. It kept me going this weekend so I need to do this review justice. I hope you enjoy it and make sure you buy a copy or in some cases take it off the […]

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 […]

LGBTQ+ Bucket Book List

Posted June 20, 2019 by Emma in Discussion Post, LGBTQ+, Summer Reading, YA / 1 Comment

So this is a first for me to write a post on LGBTQ+ books. It’s come to my attention I haven’t read enough of them! Why you might ask? I guess as a reader I’ve been stuck in my ways a bit with what genre books I read. Before I was blogger I used to read cute contemporary romances this was like 12 years ago. Then as a blogger I’ve developed my love for fantasy and I can’t stop reading them. Then there is me not only a reader but a librarian too. My pupil librarians love anything I read […]