Category: Wrap-Up

April Wrap-Up – The best reading month of the year so far…

Posted May 2, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, UKYA, Wrap-Up, YA / 0 Comments

Good evening bookworms. It’s May and finally the sun is shining here in the UK. Are we finally getting our spring weather? I really hope so, makes us feel so much better, I do love the warmer months.

So this is my first wrap up of the year… it’s been a unusual start to the year with being quite unwell for half of it, work taking over my life and not really reading at all. But this April I have prioritised my well-being, my mental health and that in turn means I read loads more. Woohoo. May it continue… get it. Haha.

This month I have also been using a new book tracker app, perfect for mood reading, for the aesthetic book lovers, creator of book collections and templates for socials automatically created. This amazing app is called Uncover and I will share some screen shots of how I have been using it.

APRIL READS

Ratings
By The Time You Read this I’ll be Gone by Stephanie Kuehn – ★★★★.5
The Girl Who Broke the Sea by A.Connors – ★★★★★
Royal Blood by Aimee Carter – ★★★★
Scorched Earth by Margot Douaihy – ★★★
So Close by Sylvia Day – ★★★.5

On the blog this month – MY RETURN and Brand new Author Blog series

Catch up on my latest posts:
Book Review | Influential by Amara Sage
Book Review | Murder She Wrote: By the Time You Read This I’ll be Gone by Stephanie Kuehn
Book Review | The Girl Who Broke the Sea by A.Connors
Under the Cover #1 – with A. Connors
Book Review | Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

The Uncover Book App

As I mentioned I’ve been using a new book app all month. I loved using it and even more so when I borrowed my mums old phone to get a true perspective of it! Uncover is only available on Android and Play store but I really want it on IOS! It’s aesthetically gorgeous, the inner creative in me loves this. Creating collections of my favourite books for example ‘Social Media in YA’, see second pic. I have even put a May TBR on there so check it out or head on to my stories to see what I’ve picked. Comment on others and bring a reading community together. It’s simple but effective. It really focuses on the mood of reading.

There is more to say but head over to instagram to follow my journey with the app and if you have an Android device, then download it here. This is a Paid Sponsorship but I would highly recommend this app and my plea is to get it to IOS.

SO THERE YOU HAVE IT, THAT’S MY APRIL WRAP UP. HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT. TELL ME WHAT BOOK YOU ENJOYED IN APRIL!?

April Wrap-Up – the best reading month this year!

Posted May 7, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, Bookish Post, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, TBR, UKYA, Wrap-Up, YA / 2 Comments

Happy Weekend my lovely readers. It’s been a week since my last post – [Insert post] – it’s been quite a busy week at work and lots of travel disruptuon as well so I’ve been getting home pretty late and super tired. But I’m here today and that’s the main thing. Today I’m bringing you my first (oh dear) wrap up of the 2022! I can’t believe I haven’t done one but I think it’s largely down to not reading much at all and I felt it wasn’t worth it. As you can see from the title of my post […]

My 2022 Bookish Intentions

Posted January 17, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, Bookish Post, Wrap-Up / 2 Comments

Happy Monday my lovely readers. The best thing about the start of a new year is setting yourself new goals, new bookish intentions. Every year I make them and every year I generally fail, last year epically apart from actually passing my Goodreads goal which I lowered. So yay for that, I’m quite pleased about that. But this year feels like a special year when everything comes together, with a new house, new business comes new responsibilities and this year is all about fitting them in this new chapter of my life. This time last year I did these intentions […]

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 […]

Twenty Twenty One Life Wrap up – the ‘where have I been’ edition!

Posted January 1, 2022 by Emma in 2021 Books, Blog, Bookish Post, Personal, Wrap-Up / 0 Comments

First of all I want to wish you all a Happy New Year! It’s 2022 and I honestly don’t know where 2021 has been. I’m writing this post 3 months after my last one. Let’s just say for me 2021 I have been notoriously absent from the book world. It’s been probably been the worst book blogging and books read year but believe me there has been plenty going on that has kept me occupied. I thought I would give you a bit of a life update I guess. The last time I did that was August and since then […]

My Top Ten Books of 2020

Posted January 1, 2021 by Emma in 2020 books, Book List, Bookish Post, Favourites, UKYA, Wrap-Up, YA / 5 Comments

It’s a new year my lovely readers. Be 2020 and welcome 2021! I’m writing this with Miss Congeniality on New Year’s Day and I reliving my Top Ten Books of 2020! Last year, wasn’t my finest year for reading. But I still read some amazing literature from Children’s to Adult. I felt last year I really read outside of my comfort zone, not too much but just enough to be comfortable in reading different genres. I read some fantastic middle grade books to fluffy, contemporary adult fiction. After each of my suggestion I will add a reason why it’s my favourite […]

November Monthly Wrap-Up – the ‘I redesigned my blog again’ edition

Posted December 7, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Bookish Post, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Wrap-Up / 3 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms, it’s been a while since my last monthly wrap up post. I think the reason being is because reading has been a struggle the last couple of months. Since my last monthly wrap up post I was saying how I wanted to read and not blog as I didn’t have the brain power or inspiration because of work. Now it’s the complete opposite, the last month has been more blogging and very little reading. But now I think I’ve conquered it back to both. I’m excited because if you are reading this then you may notice […]

August Monthly Wrap-Up – The ‘It’s been a while’ edition!

Posted September 14, 2020 by Emma in Bookish Post, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Wrap-Up / 7 Comments

Helllllllloooooooo everyone. I haven’t been around, how are we all? I’ve missed you and posting on my blog. It’s been nearly over 3 weeks since I last posted. The reason mainly was work. I’m back to working as a school librarian after 6 months off, the constant thinking and over thinking was certainly draining and I just wanted to read and not blog. I found it difficult as I lacked the inspiration and brain power to come up or start writing some posts. BUT I’M BACK!! So this will be a month and half worth of a wrap-up post, including […]

July Monthly Wrap-Up

Posted August 3, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Bookish Post, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, Wrap-Up / 6 Comments

Happy Monday my lovely readers. It’s August, where is time going?! 2020 is just whizzing away, sometimes I can’t seem to catch up especially as I write another monthly wrap-up for July. In June I suffered the reading slump, which I hated immensely but July took a turn for the best and I got my reading mojo back. Yay! It’s another month, I always feel like it’s a do over of reading and choosing my books for the month. I love it. The middle of July also saw the beginning of my summer holidays as I work in a school. […]