Retro Review: Let’s Get Lost by Ali Alsaid

Nov 9, 2014 My Aunt gave me this book and I do admit when I first looked at it and turned it over to read the blurb I thought it sounded very cheesy, I judged a book by its cover, sue me. So I put it aside on my bookshelf and forgot about it, and…

Retro Review: One Day by David Nicholls

Nov 19, 2014 Earlier this year I discovered the you-tuber Carrie Hope Fletcher AKA 'ItsWayPastMyBedtime'. She often talks about books and gives recommendations. In one of her videos she was talking about her favourite books or something like that and she mentioned One Day, among many others. So I got out my notebook, wrote down…

Retro Review: The Age of Magic by Ben Okri

Dec 9, 2014 Firstly, this book is bloody beautiful. It is just smaller than your average book but just as wide and it has a wonderful hard cover, which is protected by the gorgeous dust jacket that you can see below. It's not shiny but nice and smooth and papery. Just thought I'd give you…

Retro Review : A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Grey

Please enjoy the first review in a series of reviews that I will be re-uploading from my old blog. I really liked this book and the series ended up bring brilliant too. Reading this review as I was putting it up hear was making me feel like re-reading it. Not like I don't have enough…

June Wrap-up 2018

May was an amazing month of reading this year (check out my youtube channel to see a wrap-up of all that jazz). June proved to be less promising but still decent - much better than any single month last year that's for sure. Overview My thoughts I started 'Agnes Grey' at the very end of…

Tome Topple Read-a-thon

I first heard about the Tome Topple Read-a-thon from Cat over at Little Book Owl, which is also where I found out about the Biannual Bibliothon which I will be posting more about in the next few days. I've been a bit stuck on things to do over on youtube at the moment and I…

The Last of the Bonegilla Girls

It’s 1954. Elizabeta arrives at the Bonegilla Migrant Camp, a shy sixteen-year-old Hungarian girl, with her family, hoping for a new start. Walking through the streets of the camp she meets the Italian Iliana, the Greek Vasiliki and the daughter of the camp director, Frances and despite language barriers the girls become fast friends. But…

What I will try to read in May

I have set a reading challenge this year to read 75 books. At first, I thought this would be very ambitious but it turns out that I am doing better than I could ever expected. So far, this year, I have read...wait for it...30 books. It is true that a lot of these were smaller…

A fresh start (?)

So I've tried the whole blog thing a few times. It hasn't worked. I actually trying to write another blog at the moment, but that one is only about Italian stuff (trovarelitalia.wordpress.com - if you're wondering). But I decided on the first of June that this half-year is going to be new 'new years resolution',…