Stacking The Shelves is a meme hosted by Reading Reality all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, …
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 …
Benedict Cumberbatch, Fictional Mothers & WWW Wednesday
I finished reading This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch last night and it left me feeling quite disappointed. I was really looking forward to reading this, the subtitle of the book professed it was about ‘the joy of loving something – anything – like your life depends on …
Stacking the Shelves
Stacking The Shelves is a meme hosted by Reading Reality all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, …
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 …
2022 Adjusted Goals
I am still trying to read far too many books. I’ve got it down to 17 on the currently reading pile, 10 actively reading and 3 that I’m focused on. I blame having the ADHD brain but sometimes, like now, I get really frustrated with myself. Especially when I’ve just …
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 …
Book Review: The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Title: The Fault In Our Stars Author: John Green Dates read: 10/01/22 – 17/02/22 Rating 2/5 Publisher: Puffin Number of pages: 316 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: young adult, romance, contemporary Book blurb: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never …
Book Review: The Autobiography of Mr. Spock by Una McCormack
Title: The Autobiography of Mr. Spock Author: Una McCormack Dates read: 10/01/22 – 16/01/22 Rating 1/5 Publisher: Titan Books Number of pages: 288 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: tv tie: star trek, science-fiction Book blurb:Fictional autobiography of the iconic Star Trek character, told in his own words and …