The Devil and The Dark Water by Stuart Turton ★★★★★ A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Travelling... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday – Book Titles That Could Be Crayola Crayon Colours
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week's topic is unusual but pretty fun! I'm an Art Geek... Continue Reading →
Quarantine Book Tag
I'm hoping to start working my way through me tag back catalogue and this is another one stolen from @Zezeewithbooks! You can find the original post here. Must-Have: a book you *have* to have with you while quarantined It's go to be The Goblin Emperor. There are several books that I turn to again and... Continue Reading →
What’s Up Wednesday
What have you been reading? After a brilliant reading month for March I've started off quite slow in April. Just one novel and one short story (Alix E Harrow's 'Don't Look Back, My Lion') so far. But they were both great in their own ways, THINCS is delightful and heart-warming without being saccharine and just... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday – Books I’d Gladly Throw in the Ocean
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. I think for a lot of us this list might be populated... Continue Reading →
March Wrap Up Post
What I Did March was almost entirely given over to Litfest. It was a mad scramble, running a literature festival always is, but this year there was so much more pressure by transferring it all online for the first time. But the tech more or less held up, all our authors and artists were utterly... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday – Places in Books I’d Love to Visit
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week's theme is meant to be 'Places in Books I'd Love... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday – 2020 releases I was excited to read but didn’t get to
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week's theme is 'Funny Book Titles' but it just didn't chime... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday – I PROMISE I will read them this time!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week's theme is 'Books On Your Spring TBR', so... Continue Reading →
2020 in Review/September – December Wrap Up Post
In any normal year so much can change. But in 2020? Hoh boy... I don't think it goes too far to say that sometimes it felt like the whole world was going to hell in a handbasket. Work/Life As 2020 began and a new decade dawned, I had a lot going on. I was approaching... Continue Reading →