The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here! Each week the hop will start on a Friday …
Book Review: The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Kelly
Title: The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction Author: Christopher Kelly Dates read: 04/08/26 – 15/09/26 Rating 3.75/5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Number of pages: 153 Fiction or non-fiction: nonfiction Subject or genre: classical studies, history Book blurb: The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of …
Book/TV/Movie Characters I’d Invite to Dinner
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is: which book, TV or movie characters would I invite to dinner? At first this sounds easy. Pick your favourite characters, put them around a table, done. Except… no. There are plenty of characters I adore whom I would absolutely not invite into …
Ten Authors Who Shaped My Reading Life
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to …
Books Set Near Where I Live
I’m a few days late to this particular Weekly Wednesday, but I couldn’t skip it because this week’s question is books set near where I live. And I live near Exeter, in Devon, which means there is one extremely obvious place to begin. 🐕 The Hound of the Baskervilles by …
Currently reading: routes, rivers & the layers of history
This week I’m reading The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan and Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch, and what initially looked like another completely mismatched pair has turned out to have a surprisingly obvious connection: both have me thinking about the ways history accumulates beneath the present. The Silk Roads …
Book Review: Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
Title: Cursed Bunny Author: Bora Chung Dates read: 09/08/26 – 01/09/26 Rating 4/5 Publisher: Honford Star Number of pages: 251 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: contemporary, horror, literary, magical realism, science fiction, short stories Book blurb: Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora …
What book do you think deserves more love but flies under the radar?
The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here! Each week the hop will start on a Friday …
One Sci-Fi Item or Ability I Wish Really Existed
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is about One Sci-Fi Item or Ability I Wish Really Existed My immediate answer to this question was obvious: a transporter from Star Trek. Think about it! No commuting. No airports. No sitting in traffic. No spending hours getting somewhere when you could …
Books With Nationalities in the Title
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to …