Tag: bibliophile

Books I Want Young People to Read

Posted November 14, 2017 by Brin in Memes, Top Ten Tuesday / 2 Comments
Books I Want Young People to Read

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by the lovely folks @ The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is top ten: Books I Want Young People to Read This is a rather interesting topic – what books would I want to encourage young people to read? There are so many choices it’s actually going to be hard to limit it to just ten but I will give it my […]

Retro Reads: Lois Duncan

Posted November 13, 2017 by Brin in 80s & 90s Young Adult Rewind, Retro Reads / 2 Comments
Retro Reads: Lois Duncan

Lois Duncan: Teen Thriller Writer Extraordinaire Lois Duncan was the writer of over a dozen teen thrillers that I adored reading when I was growing up. A writer whose life was marred by tragedy when, in a strange parallel to her own writing, her daughter Kaitlyn was murdered under mysterious circumstances. After this heart-breaking turn of events, Duncan turned away from writing fiction. She instead put her focus on finding her daughter’s […]

Stacking the Shelves #101

Posted November 11, 2017 by Brin in Memes, Stacking The Shelves / 5 Comments
Stacking the Shelves #101

Stacking The Shelves – a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews & Reading Reality What I Added To My Bookshelves Alright, I seriously need to put myself on a book-buying ban because my bookshelves are getting overloaded again! I have a seriously over-flowing shelf problem! My bookshelves are positively groaning after last week’s mega post! This post is definitely not going to be as massive as last week. I only added […]

Problematic Faves

Posted November 8, 2017 by Brin in Memes, Top 5 Wednesday / 1 Comment
Problematic Faves

Top 5 Wednesday was created by Lainey @GingerReadsLainey on Youtube and is now hosted by Sam @ThoughtsOnTomes You can join the Goodreads group HERE There’s a new topic every Wednesday, and you then list your Top 5 books related to the particular topic. today’s topic is: Problematic Faves You have buried yourself in the flesh of my heart… Problematic faves or to be more exact, characters you don’t want to love, but you […]

Stacking the Shelves #100

Posted November 4, 2017 by Brin in Memes, Stacking The Shelves / 3 Comments
Stacking the Shelves #100

Stacking The Shelves – a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews & Reading Reality Massive Book Haul Incoming Alright, it has been way too long since my last STS post, so this post is going to contain an absolutely massive book haul. I’m just warning you now!! I haven’t really been keeping up-to-date with everything (including reviews, memes, comments etc.) and I really need to do better. Hopefully I’ve started to […]