Title: How To Be A Happy & Healthy Submissive Author: Kate Kinsey Dates read: 17/04/22 – 18/09/22 Rating 4/5 Publisher: Nevermore Press Number of pages: 192 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: BDSM, sexuality Book blurb: Beyond Fifty Shades of Grey, there’s an entire kinky world of BDSM, full …
Cassie A Quick Catch Up
So, the news in brief and some reading roundups are The not-COVID I had at the beginning of the month? Yeah, it turned out to actually be COVID. Li and I were both pretty sick for about 10 days, and completely exhausted for about another week. I still get fatigued …
Book Review: Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
Title: Notes on a Nervous Planet Author: Matt Haig Dates read: 01/05/22 – 07/05/22 Rating 4.5/5 Publisher: Canongate Number of pages: 310 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: health, mental health, philosophy, psychology Book blurb: The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. …
Drive-by Mini-Reviews, the second
I keep telling myself I’m going to get better at writing proper reviews as and when I finish a book but… it’s not going very well. I’m still not completely confident at writing them, if I’m being honest, but I can already tell I’m improving when I look at the …
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 …
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 …
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 – …
Book review: Love Your Life by Sophie Kinsella
Title: Love Your Life Author: Sophie Kinsella Dates read: 18/01/22 – 27/01/22 Rating 4/5 Publisher: Black Swan Number of pages: 416 pages Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: chick-lit Book blurb: I love you . . . but what if I can’t love your life? Ava is sick of …
DNF: Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control by Barbara Ehrenreich
Title: Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control Author: Barbara Ehrenreich Dates read: 18/01/22 – 23/01/22 Rating DNF Publisher: Granta Books Number of pages: 256 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: health, science Book blurb: Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are …