Captain Corelli’s Mandolin was a book on my 2018 must-read list, and I am so glad that I actually took the time to read this one. I wasn’t sure only because it was a book that had been taught at school and I wasn’t exactly sure what it was I was getting into. Safe to…
Every year I try and do a review of my reading, and every year there are series that I have either started or part the way through and by the time I get to the end of the year I realised that the series I wanted to have read but are still sat half done….
This is a little bit of an upside down post because I very rarely get bought books for my actual Christmas presents but I spend my own money and get vouchers sometimes. So this is actually the list of books that I am going to treat myself to over the Christmas period! So there are…
Heart of Mist was a book that I borrowed from Kindle Unlimited and I actually really loved it. It reminded me a lot of A Throne of Glass, especially the way the kingdom worked and the king maintains power, there are obvious differences but it made me think of it all the way through. I…
I love book tags, and although I have never really been tagged in one I thought that this would be a great way to get really into not only the Blogmas spirit but also the Christmas spirit. This tag was originally created by Lizzie Loves Books. And I found it at The Sassy Geek! ON THE…
I heard amazing things about The Tattooist of Auschwitz and was excited to jump into the story and read about Auschwitz but from a completely different viewpoint. I think reading about the inner goings on of the camp from someone who had more knowledge of what was happening and saw the decisions that were being made…
I have been gone for a little under a week. It wasn’t a planned hiatus but it was definitely a needed one. I have been really struggling with the direction that I wanted The Book Blog Life to head in and the self doubt that came with that. I think because my reading hasn’t been…
Ticker is a book that I found through Kindle Unlimited and I have to say it was completely different from anything I would have picked up normally, but the cover got me. I think the idea of someone having a clockwork heart was really unique and something I hadn’t heard of before. I have to…
I picked up Renegades because I loved The Lunar Chronicles and I was really excited to try something new, and it didn’t disappoint the characters and world were rich and well developed. I loved the politics that were wound all the way through the story, it’s always my favourite when there’s politics that are seamlessly…
I picked up After Alice after I failed to finish Wicked purely because I thought with it being a smaller book I might be able to get through this one and finish it. I did finish this one but I struggled all the way through. This book was boring, there’s no other word for it,…