It is all about A Novel Idea these days, stemmed from a pub brainstorm session trying to come up with a bookish hashtag. The story: a few weeks ago I entered a competition with Mira Ink who are looking for a freelance resident blogger for their YA audience and others in the book world alike. I entered the first round, excited to have...
Blood Shadows is an amazing novel by Lindsay J Pryor, the first of the Blackthorn series. Summary: "For vengeance - would you trust a vampire? For justice - could you betray your family? For love - are you ready to question everything you believe in? Gifted with the ability to read the shadows of 'third species' beings, Caitlin Parish is the Vampire Control...
I don't know about you, but as a book lover, movie adaptations never quite live up to the books. I am one of those people that goes to see a movie of a book I've read and will spend the whole time comparing it to the book - "the book did this..." or "that didn't happen in the book!" are usual things that...
Posted on Tumblr: http://ef64.tumblr.com/post/35591732542/blogink As a recent English graduate with an ambition to work in book publishing, I’m pretty sure I could talk about books all day, in fact I know I can and almost certain it’s what I do spend most of my time talking about. One thing that’s always a debate in literature circles as well as between other readers and...
Once again my posting has fallen behind. It has been an intense summer - having finished my degree, leaving Leicester and moving back home, then graduation and then my amazing Interrail trip around Europe for over a month! It's been abit non stop but I have loved every minute of it! And even better I have managed to read so many books. I...
It's been a long time since I've written a blog post but my past few months have been solidly taken up by revision and final assessments. It's been good to finally break out of the constant 9-6 in the library every day doing revision and essays. Nervous about how they turned out and how it may have impacted on my final degree grade,...
Wow! Having read Jenny Colgan's Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe before (which is also an amazing read, especially for cupcake lovers like me!) I knew that I would really enjoy this book as I love her style of writing. It's been sitting on my shelf itching to be read, so I finally allowed myself to! and wow! I think it is plausible to...
Before I Go to Sleep is one of those books that you see raved about everywhere you go and so I was really excited when I got a copy and started to read it straight away.It is the story of Christine, a woman who has amnesia and everyday she wakes up not knowing where she is or who her husband is or anything....
Busy busy busy, what a surprise! But now I'm on Easter holidays I have more time to read (in between work exp hours) and have managed to read two books these past 3 days. I've been good and read 'The Passion of New Eve' by Angela Carter for my coursework essay on the commute during the day, and then indulged myself in reading...
I'm getting really bad at keeping up with these at the moment. This week for sure has been one big emotional rollercoaster, it still is infact, never-ending it seems, but I'm learning to keep it inside me, only letting myself have the excuse of crying at the sad parts of Desperate Housewives and things like that! It's during this time that I read...
Today has just been one of those weeks - busy central! In fact all this course reading and essay writing got abit too overwhelming this week and I just needed to read something for fun! So my work-free evening on sunday was spent curled up on the sofa reading Paige Harbison's New Girl! I started at about 8ish and could not stop until...
Julie Kagawa is giving away a SIGNED copy of her new book The Immortal Rules! Get on over and enter at: http://juliekagawa.blogspot.com/2012/03/giveaway-immortal-rules-signed.html?showComment=1330710318946#c5126485474170744304The book is not released until 24th April 2012! Julie Kagawa is the amazing author of Iron Fey series and I can guarantee that The Iron King (#1) is such a great read, especially for all those sci-fi/fantasy/Twilight fans! It's not an...
Day 10 without chocolate #Lent I had to read this book for my 'Contemporary Women's Writing' module at uni this week, and thought I could review it! Although it is written relatively recently (1996) it is set in a working-class, white dominated village of Tollington in the 70's. The general overview is a little girl, Meena, who is part of the only Indian...
I have become increasingly addicted to pretty things lately - this can range from anything from notebooks to jewellery, usually book-type items or vintage styles! This is when my geek-y side comes out and I become like a magpie for these things. One thing that lacks (as always) is money, if only I was rich *sigh*. Notonthehighstreet.co.uk is one of my favourites at...
It has been a while since I have updated on here, far too long in fact. My life (as most I'm sure) is as hectic as always in many ways (rubbish excuse, I know), my focus on my final semester of my degree has taken over in one last push to do as best I can. As hectic as it may be, I...
