#BangingBookClub: Asking For It by Louise O’Neill
So Youtubers Hannah Witton, Leena Norms and Lucy Moon are running a book reading club called #BangingBookClub. As opposed to making a video, I’ll be participating via my blog! Their video review The first in this year’s list is… Asking For It by Louise O’Neil **trigger warning:novel contains rape and descriptions of self-harm** {Blog post […]
Exploring Anne Blankman’s Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke
This book me took me a while to read because, in all honesty, it’s not genre I usually read (and so it took me a while to really get into it) and because I’ve been so damn busy! “Soon she wouldn’t witness the miracle of blood and sinew responding to her thoughts. Soon she wouldn’t […]
Bookish New Year Resolutions
HAPPY NEW YEAR! So unfortunately, I didn’t reach my Goodread’s Reading Challenge goal in 2015, my sincere apologies to The Book Lord *cowers in fear*. So here’s hoping I reach my reading goal this year. To help me, I’ve written down the list of books I’ve been hoping to read, which I will hopefully get […]
TBT #8:The Haunting of Ellen by Martin Waddell
Eight-year-old Nadia has left the building! For the new batch of throwbacks, I have included some book reviews I had to do for school (hence the marking). These were completed in 2007 where I would have been ten years old. Enjoy! Transcript I think this fiction book is the best i’ve ever read because it’s […]
Book Review: Holy Cow by David Duchovny
Holy Cow tells the story of Elsie, an anthropomorphic cow with human attributes which receive no acknowledgement and no explanation, who along with a turkey and pig, escapes her farm in order to pursue her dream. “Oh yeah, we believe in God. In the shape of a cow. Not really. Scared you,though, didn’t I?” Although […]
#3 TBT: Arthur Rocks with Binky by Marc Brown
Transcript It is about… a bear called Arthur who is really excited about his best band BINKY comming[sic] to town but when he gets his tickets hes[sic] at the back row! When hes[sic] dad says Arthur can come backstage with him hes[sic] really excited then he find[sic] out that BINKY is not real. What sticks […]
TBT #1: The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy
So basically, when I was younger I went to this thing called ChatterBooks where we – brace yourself – talked about books! While clearing up I’ve recently found a bunch of old ChatterBooks book reviews which I must’ve written when I was about eight or nine. So instead of letting them rot, I’ve decided I’ll […]
Review of Daughter by Jane Shemilt: A Mixed Journey
“I first picked up this book because I saw it advertised on an underground billboard (great reasoning eh!?) and to an extent, it did not disappoint…”
Book Review: The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins
This book has been raved about so much on social media that when I saw a hardback copy for £2.99 at a charity shop, I had to get it! (I love hardbacks, okay?! I don’t have nearly enough) I’m on an internet-less holiday right now (literally posting this was a nightmare) so this book came […]
Book Review: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Now this is not the kind of book I would normally read, but I saw it came out in cinemas a couple of months ago and I thought: hey, I should really read it before watching it. Also this has made me realise how I seem to have a knack for reading books that are […]