October was… a lot. Between uni starting (!!!), work chaos, and a migraine that just would not quit, reading was more of a background hum than a main feature. But hey – two books finished is progress, and I’ll take that as a win. 📖 What I Read The Last …
Book Review: String Theory – David Foster Wallace on Tennis
Title: String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis Author: David Foster Wallace Dates read: 19/08/25 – 30/08/25 Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 (3.5 stars) Publisher: Library of America Number of pages: 138 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: essays, sports, tennis Book blurb: Gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector’s …
Weekly Wednesday: Books I Had to Read in School and Actually Liked
This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is about those required reading books – the ones that get handed to you with a sigh and a syllabus, and you steel yourself for boredom… only to discover that, actually, you love them. For me, there are three standouts: 📚 Oliver Twist …
Books with a High Page Count
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 …
Currently Reading – A Blend of History, Heart, and a Touch of the Uncanny
This week I’ve settled into two very different but surprisingly complementary reads: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley A time travel novel unlike any I’ve read before—bureaucratic, witty, and threaded with a deeply humane look at displacement, love, and the complicated weight of history. Bradley’s writing is sharp, layered, …
Book Review: False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
Title: False Value (Rivers of London #8) Author: Ben Aaronovitch Dates read: 10/08/25 – 17/08/25 Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 (3.5 stars) Publisher: Gollancz Number of pages: 420 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: contemporary, crime, fantasy, mystery Book blurb: Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts …
Currently Reading: ticking clocks and code-bound curses
Last week, I had grand plans for Frankenstein and False Value, but my brain waved a white flag. Mental health-wise, I just wasn’t in the headspace for Shelley’s heavy storms or Aaronovitch’s magical noir, so I pivoted to something gentler: Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood and A Thousand …
🦴 What Lies Beneath: Why I’m Fascinated by Burials and Bones
There’s something about bones. Maybe that sounds morbid, maybe it is morbid, but I don’t think I’m alone in the quiet fascination that settles in when a burial site is uncovered. When a skull is lifted from the soil. When archaeologists brush back the earth from a femur that last …
6 Books That Unearth the Past
There’s something irresistible about peering into the past – not just through textbook timelines, but through the soil, the bones, the stories buried with them. After finishing Ancestors by Alice Roberts, I found myself drawn to other books that don’t just tell history, but dig it up. Here are six …
Books set in the Wars of the Roses
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 …