Saturday 30 May 2015

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Saturday 30 May 2015
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
You can't blend in when you were born to stand out. My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August Pullman wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches forever, Wonder is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.

Thursday 28 May 2015

Birthday Book Haul

Thursday 28 May 2015
As a tradition in my family, when someone turns 18 my dad gives them their savings account, I may have spent some of this money on books. Maybe. There is 17 books here (and though my friend told me to get an extra one so that I could say I got 18 books for my 18th birthday I just couldn't bring myself to do it) so let's get cracking.

Tuesday 26 May 2015

TTT #10 - Ten Books I Plan To Have In My Beach Bag.

Tuesday 26 May 2015

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish. This a week that I'm really excited about - Which books are going to be in my Beach Bag. You want to know what my ideal beach read is? Contemporaries. HELL YEAH. Let's do it.

Sunday 24 May 2015

Meeting The Queen (and The Asshole): Natalie's Adventures.

Sunday 24 May 2015
So I'm kicking this new feature off with an exciting post - I met Sarah J Maas. I mean, I met Sandra @ Tea Between Books on the same day too, so all in all, it was an incredible day.

Thursday 21 May 2015

What Happened To Goodbye by Sarah Dessen

Thursday 21 May 2015
What Happened To Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
Who is the real McLean? Since her parents' bitter divorce, McLean and her dad, a restaurant consultant, have been on the move - four towns in two years. Estranged from her mother and her mother's new family, McLean has followed her dad in leaving the unhappy past behind. And each new place gives her a chance to try out a new persona: from cheerleader to drama diva. But now, for the first time, McLean discovers a desire to stay in one place and just be herself, whoever that is. Perhaps Dave, the guy next door, can help her find out.

Tuesday 19 May 2015

TTT #9 - Top Ten Ships (Bookish Or Otherwise)

Tuesday 19 May 2015

Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This weeks feature is a freebie so we can choose our own topic! I'm doing my Top Ten Ships.

Sunday 17 May 2015

Paperbacks VS Hardbacks.

Sunday 17 May 2015

I've had this post sitting in my drafts for a good few months so I decided that it was probably time for me to go back and actually write it - after all, you can't read it if it never get's posted. I'm also jamming to High School Musical so if my thoughts seem a little jumpy it's because I took a break to dance around.

Thursday 14 May 2015

Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

Thursday 14 May 2015
Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian
Postcard-perfect Jar Island is the kind of place where nobody locks their doors at night, where parents can sleep easy, knowing their daughters are tucked away safe and sound in their beds. But bad things can happen, even to good girls, and sometimes the only way to make things right is do something wrong. Lillia used to trust boys, but not anymore. Not after what happened this summer. And she'll be damned if she lets the same thing happen to her little sister. Kat is through with being called a freak. She's over the rumors, the insults, the cruel jokes made at her expense. It all goes back to one person - her ex-best friend - and Kat's ready to make her pay. Four years ago, Mary left Jar Island because of a boy. But she's not the same girl anymore. Now that she's back, he's gonna be in trouble . . . 'cause she's coming for him. Three very different girls who want the same thing: sweet revenge. And they won't stop until they've each had a taste.

Tuesday 12 May 2015

TTT #8 - Ten Authors I REALLY Want To Meet

Tuesday 12 May 2015

Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish whereby we list our top ten books that fit into the chosen category. This weeks category is 'Top Ten Authors I Really Want To Meet'

Monday 11 May 2015

Fan Art - Visual Week Day Eight

Monday 11 May 2015
Book feels come with becoming heavily attached to characters which can lead to spending hours and hours finding fan art on Tumblr. I have a problem.

Sunday 10 May 2015

Book Quote Typography - Visual Week Day Seven

Sunday 10 May 2015
We all love typography. I mean - beautiful fonts, beautiful quotes all put together into a beautiful image. It's glorious. I love fonts and quotes, that's no secret. I'm not the best at putting them all together in beautiful images but apparently this week is all about showcasing things I'm not good at so let's get cracking.

Saturday 9 May 2015

Books to Movies - Visual Week Day Six

Saturday 9 May 2015
One thing I absolutely love is watching movies and TV shows. If I'm not reading or doing work then you can usually find me curled up under a blanket with Netflix on. But when you combine books and movies - Oh it's magic. Sometimes.

Friday 8 May 2015

Book Shelves (A Peek) - Visual Week Day Five

Friday 8 May 2015
There's a reason I don't take book photos in my bedroom and that's because of the bad lighting - unfortunately my bookshelves are in my bedroom so please be aware that these won't be the best quality pictures. I'm also looking for a new bookshelf so that I can organise them better and it'll just be a whole lot nicer to look at - but today we're stuck with what we've got.

Thursday 7 May 2015

Book Merch - Visual Week Day Four

Thursday 7 May 2015
I love Book Merchandise and I'm sure you do too so I'm here today on Visual Week Day Four to share with you my favourite bookish shops.

Wednesday 6 May 2015

Book Covers - Visual Week Day Three

Wednesday 6 May 2015
I love book covers, I mean, who doesn't? Whoever says that they don't judge a book by it's cover is a LIAR and I won't stand for that. Without further ado here are some of my favourite book covers.

Tuesday 5 May 2015

Bookstagrams - Visual Week Day Two

Tuesday 5 May 2015
I spend a lot of time on Instagram scrolling through pictures of celebrities, Michael Clifford, my friends and, of course, books. This, undoubtedly, has led to me having quite a few favourite bookstagram accounts that I want to share with you today on Day Two of Visual Week.

Monday 4 May 2015

Book Photography - Visual Week Day One.

Monday 4 May 2015


I'm struggling. Lately I've been lacking inspiration and, honestly, the energy to write posts a couple of times a week. I've been heavily relying on Top Ten Tuesday to make sure that I even get more than one post up a week and that's not the way I want to do it. I was going to take a break, I was going to sit down and write a post about how I would be taking a break for a week or two from this blog but instead I thought - 'Hey, why not just take a break from the words.' so here I present to you: Visual Week.

The idea of this week is that I can still get content up, hopefully one post per day from Monday 4th (today) through to Monday 11th - but it will be entirely, or mainly, visual. This includes: book photography, bookstagram, book covers etc. I'm hoping that this will give me a chance to come up with some ideas of posts that will interest both you, as readers, and me as the writer once the week is over. Call it a detox of words if you will.