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 …
Cassie Book Review: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Title: The Lost Apothecary Author: Sarah Penner Dates read: 28/02/22 – 19/03/22 Rating 4/5 Publisher: HarperCollins Number of pages: 320 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: historical fiction, mystery Book blurb: A forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to The Lost …
Weekly Wednesday: A book setting you’d like to visit and why
This week, Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge asks A book setting you’d like to visit and why And OMG y’all, I have been trying to get to Narnia through the back of a wardrobe for like 33 years now! The BBC adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe aired …
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Enjoyed, but Have Never Mentioned On My Blog
Last weeks Top Ten Tuesday asked Books I Enjoyed, but Have Never Mentioned On My Blog and since this is still a new blog and I haven’t talk about many books, I thought I’d use the prompt to talk about my ten favourite books Anne Rice – Queen Of The …
A Quick Catchup
Apologies for the lack of posting over the last week or so – I have been an exhausted Cassie. A huge project I’ve been involved in at work has completely imploded and I’m picking up debris left, right and centre. It’s been a month or so, and it’s going to …
Genres
I have come across two different blogging prompts/link ups this week that are asking the opposite questions to each other, so I thought I’d combine them into one post. First up, Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge! is asking Favourite Book Genre and why and while I’m not sure I can articulate the why, I can …
Drive-by Mini-Reviews
The only issue with reading multiple books at the same time, is that every now and again you manage to finish a whole collection of them all at the same time, which is what’s happened to me over the last few days. And, naturally, I was busy with school and …
Book Review: How To Sleep Tight Through The Night by Tzivia Gover & Lesléa Newman
Title: How To Sleep Tight Through The Night Author: Tzivia Gover & Lesléa Newman Dates read: 15/02/22 Rating 4/5 Publisher: Storey Publishing Number of pages: 64 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: health Book blurb: Whether it’s bedtime or the wee hours of the night, this sweetly illustrated nighttime …
An exploration of my TBR
I am so glad to have finished reading Jane Eyre, you have no idea. I have finished the whole unit of work on the book and now I’m looking at a multi-disciplinary (Classical Studies, Art History, English Literature & Creative Writing) unit on ‘what makes a Classic’ and I’m very …
Book Review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Title: Jane Eyrep Author: Charlotte Bronte Dates read: 25/01/22 – 04/02/22 Rating 1/5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Number of pages: 512 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: classics, romance, gothic Book blurb: “Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!” Throughout the hardships of her childhood – …