This is the first instalment of a new series I am trialing called My Thoughts while Re-reading! I really enjoy re-reading I find it helps break the dreaded reading slumps and I always seem to find something new I never noticed before. I like to annotate books when I re-read them noting down all those…
This weeks Top 5 Wednesday topic is the five books at the top of your TBR pile. I have a pretty set TBR for January and in February I have to focus my time on some ARCs that I have been fortunate to receive. However, there are a good number of books on my a…
The original year long challenge was created by Anna from Reader and Proud, now to keep us all movtivated to get those pages turning and those series finished she has introduced a little readathon. I love the community that readathon create lots of people reading together and motivating each other so I am ready to join…
I was tagged by the awesome Roxanne from An Average Life to describe my perfect library! Oh this is a difficult task, I could dream for days about the size, location and contents. So this is what my heart has gone with for the moment. Location Can I have a magic library? I am a city…
I have kept a bullet journal for over 3 years now. I swear I wouldn't have survived my PhD without it. I use it for work projects as well as personal projects and it travels with me every day. I have found that over the years it has also became a reading journal where I…
Title: The Way of All Flesh Author: Ambrose Parry Pages: 407 E.S.C.A.P.E Score: 43 (see breakdown below) 4 STARS From Goodreads: Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned…
I have been receiving Fairyloot boxes for quite some time now but have never done a proper unboxing or acknowledged the different reads it has introduced me to. For those that don't know Fairyloot is a UK based book subscription box that focuses around the YA fantasy genre. A typical box includes a new release…
I received an eARC from The Borough Press, HarperCollins UK, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Title: The Binding Author: Bridget Collins Release date : 10/1/2019 UK 16th April 2019 USA (William Morrow) E.S.C.A.P.E Score: 47 (see breakdown below) 4.5 STARS From Goodreads: Imagine you could erase grief. Imagine you could remove pain. Imagine you…
Over the past 9 months of this blog I have been slowly increasing the number of reviews I have been doing. Yet, how to review a book is something I have struggled with. I am a Scientist it has been over 13 years since I have done a book review in school. I want my…
As stated in 2019 Goals to focus my reading to clearing my huge TBR pile, I am stealing an idea of Riley from rmfickfack and I am going to set myself a ten book TBR each month. As a reminder I have set myself a few rule for setting the TBR. They are: Last months Fairyloot book…
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