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#kidlit :: Influential Childhood Books
This week I’ve started reading Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree series with my four-year-old and we are loving it so much! So I though this would be a good chance to catch up on a Bookish Bloggers Unite blog topic I missed a few weeks ago, when everyone shared some influential books from their childhood. I absolutely adored Enid Blyton’s books as a child – all the way from the stories about toys through the The Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair, running away with Mr Galliano’s Circus, the adventures and sleuthing of the Secret Seven and Famous Five, and, of course, terms and terms at Mallory Towers and St Claire’s.…
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#BookishBloggersUnite :: Authors I’d like to meet
It has been a little while since I participated in the Bookish Bloggers Unite meme, but this week I’m hosting (and running a little late – I have no idea what happened to the few days!). Bookish Bloggers Unite is a weekly meme we started as a place to talk about our favourite books, TBR piles, and to share the love about our reading lives. We have a different host each week, and every one is invited to sign up to the linky and join in! After a couple of book events in the past few weeks I got to thinking about authors I’d really like to meet. I’m pretty…
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#BookishBloggersUnite :: Best Literary Opening Lines
Hello! Happy Sunday!This week’s #BookishBloggersUnite is being hosted by Tina from TBR, etc, and the theme is ‘Best Literary Opening Lines. This was a tricky one for me! I love beautiful language and clever passages in books, but have absolutely zero memory for literary quotes – most of the ones that came to mind were because they are well known as quotes, rather than from my own reading of the books. After a bit of thinking (and maybe a quick flick through some of the books on my shelves) I did come up with one…The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater I adore this entire series, and it had me intrigued…
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#BookishBloggersUnite :: 2018 in reading so far
The start of April means we are already a quarter of the way through the year! This week (actually last week, insert embarrassed eye-roll emoji here haha) in our #BookishBloggersUnite posts, we thought it would be fun to have a look back at the year so far. The host for the week was Laura from That Library Lady – make sure you pop over and check out her blog and post for everyone’s first quarter check-ins! So, here are a few highlights from my year so far…As of the end of March, I’d read 26 books so far this year – 6 in January, 12 in February, and 8 in…
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#BookishBloggersUnite :: Books for high school graduates
What is it with March? I feel like I’m at least a week behind in my life all of a sudden! Someone told me that they think March is kind of like the Monday of months, and everyone I’ve talked to about it since has agreed. In any case, here I am – a week since my last post – and today I’m joining in with last weekend’s #BookishBloggersUnite prompt, hosted this time by Katy at the Bookish Cronk, which was to talk about books you would give as gifts to high school graduates. Make sure you pop over to Katy’s post to check out the other responses. One book…
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#BookishBloggersUnite :: Who Runs the World?
Hello! Welcome to this week’s #BookishBloggersUnite post! #BookishBloggersUnite is a weekly meme that started when a bunch of book loving bloggers decided it would be fun to talk about our favourite bookish things together! We post weekly, and anyone is welcome to join in at any time. If you’d like to play along this week please pop over to see this week’s lovely host Jade at Bindro’s Bookshelf and add your post to the linky! This week Jade has been super creative and made a Spotify list of songs, each of which inspires a prompt to answer! You can check it out by following the link on Jade’s post.So, to…
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#BookishBloggersUnite :: International Women’s Day
Helloo everyone! Happy Friday and welcome to our weekly #BookishBloggersUnite post! #BookishBloggersUnite is a meme that started when a bunch of book living bloggers decided it would be fun to get together each week and talk about some of our favourite bookish things. Everyone is welcome to join in, and we take turns hosting – I’m super excited to be this week’s host! In honour of International Women’s Day we’re celebrating women writers, and if you’d like to join I’d love for you to tell me about three women: one who is a favourite, whose writing you love and love to recommend, one whose work you’ve read some of…
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#BookishBloggersUnite :: Women and genre writing
Hey all! It’s #BookishBloggersUnite time again! This week is being hosted by my fellow Aussie and bookish friend Sue, from Doddy About Books, and the theme is ‘Favourite Women Writers Across Multiple Genres‘. For my take on this one I’m going to talk about three authors I love who write/wrote genre fiction. Amie Kaufman – Sci-fiIf you’ve been here before you might know I like to find any excuse to mention #loveozya, so talking about an Aussie YA author was too tempting to pass up! I have only read a couple of Amie Kaufman‘s books so far, but I have loved them and plan on reading all of her work.…
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#BookishBloggersUnite :: Introductions
Happy Sunday people! I have something a little bit different to share today – a brand new weekly meme called Bookish Bloggers Unite. Each week (usually Friday or Saturday) Bookish Bloggers Unite will have a different topic for discussion, covering all kinds the bookish things we are passionate about. Everyone is welcome to join in – pop over to the host of the week (this week it is Katy from the Bookish Cronk) to add you link and see what everyone else has to say! This week’s posts are about introducing ourselves by answering some questions about our reading lives… What got you into reading? This is a tricky one…
