13 Common ‘Mistakes’ in Reviewing You Can Ignore (except the last one) On May 21 2019 (thanks Google for bringing this to my attention in June 2020), LitHub published a piece entitled 13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and How to Avoid Them by Jay A Fernandez. I don’t believe this article is good advice, […]
It has come to my attention that I often advocate using your local library’s resources to listen to audiobooks and read ebooks for free, but I’ve never taken the time to explain how to do it. Today I’m rectifying that issue. I use two apps called Overdrive and Libby to access my library’s electronic […]
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme created by Tynga’s Reviews and hosted by Reading Reality. It’s all about sharing the books we’ve picked up for the week, whether they are bought, borrowed, gifted, galleys, physical or virtual. Share your shelves and remember to visit Tynga’s Reviews where it all started to find more great […]
Like I mentioned in my November update, my husband and a friend put together the new bookshelves that arrived! We ordered them in September, which means my books have been in crates for nearly 18 months, but that’s OK! We now call our spare room our ‘library’. Here is some before and after shots. The […]
I often choose to read (and especially buy) female-led books by female authors, so I thought I’d delve a bit more into this since although it’s not a secret, I haven’t really talked about it and my choices as a reader, consumer, and blogger. There are lots of reasons why I don’t really read male […]
I’ve been thinking recently about my equal love for physical books and digital books. I love the way physical books make me feel when I buy them and look at them, but I love the experience of reading digital books. In an ideal world, I could buy a physical book and get a free digital […]
A few weeks ago JK Rowling confirmed a theory that’s been floating around the Harry Potter community for a while now: That in Goblet of Fire, Hermione spends a paragraph instructing Viktor Krum how to pronounce ‘Hermione’ correctly to teach all of us who were pronouncing it wrong. I have to confess: Despite studying and […]
Recently I got a new Kindle! I’ve been using the same Kindle since 2011, and despite it still being in very good condition (never going anywhere without a case) and I only really used it to read ARCs, my husband has been through like 3 and I was starting to get resentful of my ‘older’ […]
I think I made a book friend? Like… in real life?? So I started this new job in January after life kicked me squarely in the teeth last year. I love this job. It’s got a great mix of things I do regularly and new things, I really like my colleagues, it’s helping me grow professionally, and […]
I like to buy books in paperback but I prefer to read ebooks. This makes me feel kind of weird. I’m not part of the ‘digital books are murdering physical books’, ‘physical books are best’ camp, nor am I part of the ‘digital books are the way of the future’ ‘physical books MURDER TREES and […]
