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My 2023 Bookish Intentions

Posted January 4, 2023 by Emma in Bookish Post / 3 Comments

Welcome 2023 my book friends! I do love a new year purely as a refresh for mind, body and soul right?! That’s the same for books as well. I reflect on 2022 reads which went amazingly well. See my previous post for my top reads of the year and I feel reinvigorated for the year ahead. I love setting myself new goals and I can’t wait for the a year of new books and discovering new authors. I feel like this year I am more organised and more put together with my home, my business taking flight and everything feels […]

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 […]

Book Review | The Honeys by Ryan La Sala – Don’t miss this Summer’s Hottest YA Horror!

Posted August 23, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, Horror, LGBTQ+, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms. I said I had many reviews to write and here I am writing yet another which is 5 star read. This a book that took me by surprise and I love when that happens. So let’s straight into my thoughts shall we but first here is a little bit more about the book. The Summer’s hottest YA Horror! The Honeys follows Mars, when his twin sister, Caroline, is horrifically dies in front of him, he is haunted by it. Ever since attending Aspen Summer Academy, Caroline changed, she grew cold and distant from him and his […]

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 […]

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 […]

Book Review | The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman

Posted January 24, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Fantasy, Magic, YA / 0 Comments

My first book of 2022 is a five star read! What a way to kick off this new year! I went into this book completely blind and I love when you have no expectations and it blows you away. This particular fantasy book reminded of another by the same publisher Thorn by Intisar Khanai and I would say if you enjoyed that, you’ll love this and vice versa. I had the exact same feels for both books, so that must be saying something. The Ivory Key follows four siblings, Via, Ronak, Rita and Kaleb. Each of the have gone their […]

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 […]