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 Sunday Reading Wrapup
What are you currently reading? M.T. Clanchy – From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 47% read. I’ve said this before – this book was written to be written, not to be read. It’s utterly fascinating but it’s a serious slog DK Publishing – SuperSimple Chemistry 18% read. I picked …
June 2023 Reading Wrap-Up
I had quite the good reading month in June and finished 9 books Kaleb Cooper – The World According To Kaleb I am honestly not sure what the point of this book was. Other than to make money. Like most fans of Clarkson’s Farm, I utterly adored Kaleb but this …
Weekly Wednesday Catch-up
Every time I think I’ve caught myself up and got into a rhythm, life laughs at me. I actually got my ADHD diagnosis yesterday which helps me understand a little why this happens, and I can start to try and figure out things out once we find a medication schedule …
Some drive-by mini reviews
It’s been a while since I’ve done any mini-reviews (and, y’know, actually finished reading any books to write a review of) so here’s a little round-up of what I’ve been reading recently. I’ve DNFed two books in the last week: The first one was Kelly Ambers – Her First Collar: …
Book Review: How To Be A Healthy & Happy Submissive by Kate Kinsey
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …