book blog
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Edinburgh Trip & Book Haul 🏰📚
To close out January I took a little trip to Edinburgh. I love visiting this city, its so beautiful all year round. Every good Edinburgh trip starts with visiting a local café! The Wall Coffee & Design House is a… Continue reading
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5 Most Anticipated Books of 2025
2025 is gearing up to be another incredible year for book releases. Here’s 5 traditionally published books I’ve already pre-ordered for this year. (Indie edition coming soon!) Ambessa by C.L. Clark (February 18th) I admit it, I used to be… Continue reading
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Does anyone care about book blogging anymore? 😱📚
This post is inspired by Pages Unbound’s latest blog post Trends I Think We’ll See in Book Blogging in 2025. I was writing a comment under the post then realised I was beginning to write an essay so figured I… Continue reading
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2025 Reading Goals 📚🐍
2024 was a failure for me and my reading goals. I started the year off well but any hope of achieving them completely fell off the cliff in the second half of 2024. When writing this year’s goals I decided… Continue reading
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Happy New Year! | January TBR 🎆🥂
Hope you’ve all had a fantastic holiday season. Mine has been very chilled out though didn’t exactly go according to plan. I ended up with symptoms of Tonsillitis on Christmas Eve but couldn’t get antibiotics until Boxing Day, so have… Continue reading
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NetGalley Update | Nov 2024
After taking a little break from reviewing over the summer (and most of Autumn, oops) I’ve started requesting books to review on NetGalley again! I tried logging back into my account but it seems to have vanished (can’t remember if… Continue reading
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Turns out I own 308 Kindle books 😵📑
I can’t remember the last time I went through my Kindle library and actually paid attention to the amount of eBooks I owned on the device. Usually I just see “99p Kindle deals” pop up on my Twitter feed and… Continue reading
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Every Book I’ve Read This Year… So Far | Jan-Mar 2024
This post started out as a January Wrap Up that I never finished! 😬 I have no idea how it got lost in my draft folder. Does this happen to any other book bloggers or am I just disorganised? Anyway,… Continue reading
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NetGalley Update | Feb 2024
This feels very much like a nothing update because I have nothing to update you on. I’ve barely started the first (and only) book I need to review and have been rejected from another. But hey, I just want to… Continue reading
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Review | Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 🍎
I haven’t read Twilight since I was 12 years old but for some strange reason at 26 I decided it was time for a reread. The Twilight Saga had a little resurgence in popularity again in the Autumn of 2023,… Continue reading
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NetGalley Update | Jan 2024
I’ve been reading “NetGalley Update/Check In” posts for the majority of my time in the book blogging community but never done one myself as I didn’t use the book reviewing site. I wanted to get back into reviewing ARCs but… Continue reading
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My Bookish Goals for 2024
Read 36 Books Last year I read 21 books, even though I had two whole months where I read nothing at all! In 2024 I plan on increasing that number a little bit with an ambitious 3 books per month.… Continue reading
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Happy New Year! 🎉🥂 | Jan 2024 TBR
Happy New Year everyone! Hope you had a good NYE celebration, I was definitely a little hangover the next morning. 😅 Last year I was terrible at sticking to any kind of reading schedule but this year I certainly need… Continue reading
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What I Read in 2023 | StoryGraph Stats 📊
Welcome to to my 2023 wrap up! I read 21 books this year though I’m actually pretty disappointed with this, despite smashing my yearly reading goal. I originally set my challenge to 12 as I did not complete my 2022… Continue reading
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What I Read Last Week | 21/08/2023 📚
One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2023 was to be more consistent with my blog but unfortunately, I have been unsuccessful so far. There’s a couple reasons for this. The first is due to the nature of my job… Continue reading
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Books I’m giving a second chance
I try and avoid DNFs. I don’t like leaving bo0ks unfinished or giving up on them because it feels a little bit like failure. I’ve found I’m quite intuitive when it comes to choosing books to read and often hit… Continue reading
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Changing bookish habits
Hello! Long time no reading, how is everyone? I have been absolutely swamped with work and haven’t had any time to blog, or read, or write, or well… exist. I definitely never used to appreciate how much time off I’d… Continue reading
Ramblings of an over-caffeinated nerd 