So…we have a little something different today guys. Something more personal, written by a guest, and something I feel the need to help share.
How Blogging Helped Me Deal With Grief
A massive, massive thank you!
I…wasn’t going to write this post. The niggling voice in my head keeps telling me that to do so would be vain. But I can’t help feeling so overwhelmed with love for the book community in recent days, and so my need to give a proper thank you has managed to stamp that voice down – if only long enough for me to write this post. I may regret it after, but for now let’s go.
A lot has happened in the past week. I’ll go into it more below, but basically…
I’ve been shortlisted for the UKYABA’s under “Best Content and Design”!!
Show Stopper Blog Tour: Extract of a dark society & deadly circus
I have something exciting to show you today guys! I decided to buddy up with Scholastic to bring you an extract from Hayley Barker’s new book Show Stopper!
I’m so intrigued about this book after seeing it around online, and even more so after reading through the extract myself. Also, look how stunning the cover is!!
I hope you enjoy!
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December Wrap Up – The one where I fly through books quicker than usual
December. The month of festivities. Christmas creeping closer, the streets bustling more as people hurriedly buy gifts for others. Everything is suddenly strung with lights and tinsel, lighting the world up for the final month of the year. There’s a happy atmosphere surrounding the air, gently concealing the stress levels Christmas can bring.
December brings along the Christmas break. A break from work, a break from college, a break to recover from the year. A break…to READ.
Okayy, that’s obviously not the universal reason for the Christmas/End of Year break but it sure as hell is MINE.
So let’s see what December brought!
There’s also a video version of this post if you’d like the see, combined with my January TBR! Click here to see! (though I forgot to mention one of the books – doh!)
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2016 End of Year Book Survey – In it for the long haul
So with 2017 just started, I decided I’d take part in the 2016 Annual End of Year Book Survey – Originally made by The Perpetual Page-Turner (all the graphics are made by her too).
This is basically a look back of all the books I read throughout the year, though not necessarily published this year, filling in all the categories 🙂 A quick, easy post, but an interesting one nonetheless!
So without anymore rambling, let’s get into the survey!
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Looking back at my 2016 reading resolutions – let’s see if I nailed them or failed them
At the start of 2016, way back when the new year brought hopeful ambition coursing through my veins, I made a whole bunch of reading resolutions.
Now, resolutions aren’t something I usually stick to. The intention is there, but the motivation very quickly dies. However…somehow reading resolutions are easier to achieve to me. Maybe because I’m actually interested in them, or because it’s not a huge lifestyle change?
There were quite a few though. And a lot of the time I forgot I even had resolutions. So I’ve honestly no idea how this look back will go, but I’m excited to see whether I failed it or nailed it 😆
Let’s take a look back!
Merry Christmas!! Grateful wonderings from 2016 & a few festive updates
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
Considering it’s Christmas day tomorrow, I thought I’d move this blog post a day earlier and make it a mash of grateful wonderings and festive updates.
Though really, the updates aren’t actually that festive…at all…
Although this post is labelled as being festive, it’s a lot more of an acknowledgement of things I’m grateful for from 2016, so if you don’t celebrate Christmas – don’t worry, you won’t be bombarded with it. And I hope each and every one of you take a moment and join me in thinking of things you’re grateful for 🙂
Let’s get to it!
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YOU recommend! It’s time for you guys to take over my blog & make my formidable TBR even longer
Guys, you’re taking over my blog.
At least for today, anyway.
This blog is basically one huge recommendation for reading. There’s an endless amount of books talked about on here, but even so, there’s even more I’ve not yet discovered.
Now, recently I posted my Reading Resolutions for 2017 video. For those who you who haven’t seen it (which you totally should, you know. Would be very much appreciated *winks*), three of the resolutions on there are about bringing a difference to my reading taste.
1. I hope to read more nonfiction
2. I hope to read more diversely
and 3. I hope to broaden my genres
Which means I’ve got a lot of book buying to do in 2017. And you know what I need to do that?
Your recommendations!
Sunday Status: Because December is the month where my reading and blogging life gets busy
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Oh yes, it’s that new feature I brought in months ago…and then completely forgot about. How did that even happen? Either way, I’ve brought it back now. Let it rise from the ashes like a phoenix and heal you with it’s medicinal bird tears.
10 points to your Hogwarts house if you got the Fawkes reference.Â
Since the first (and only) one of these features happened a long time ago, here’s a quick summary of what a Sunday Status post is. Basically, it’s just a post where I update you on anything reading related – what I’m currently reading, future plans for my blog and booktube, anything remotely interesting I might have to mention.
So…what’s my Sunday Status?
Bookish Gift Guide – because gift buying can be difficult, right?
EVERYBODY SING! “It’s the moooost wonderful timeee of the yearrrr”
– or at least, it is if you have your gift ideas sorted. If not, then it can be the most stressful time of the year.
Now, bookworms might seem like the easiest people to buy for. What do you get a bookworm? A book. Sorted! ….or is it? You might not want to get them a book. It’s a pretty predictable gift. You might have gotten them books for the last 5 christmases and want to change it up a bit. You might still be getting them a book, but want something else to go along with it. Or even if you want to get them a book, you might not know what sort of books they’d want. There’s a lot of things to consider.
So here are my gift ideas. Now, I do have to admit that I’m really bad at coming up with gift ideas. So I’ve honestly no idea why I’m doing this post. A lot of these you’ve probably heard of before, with the amount of gift guides out there, but I’ve tried to throw in a few new ideas!
Everything will be linked too in case you want to follow up any of these ideas!
Let’s get on with the gift guide!
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A frolic through fiction 