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Books I Liked with Tropes I Usually Hate

Posted August 9, 2018 by Brin in Memes, Top 5 Wednesday / 1 Comment
Books I Liked with Tropes I Usually Hate

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. Books I Liked with Tropes I Usually Hate Ah, tropes – love ’em or hate ’em it’s impossible to deny that the vast majority of literature (adult and young adult […]

June Bookstagram Challenges: Day 14

Posted June 14, 2017 by Brin in Challenges / 0 Comments
June Bookstagram Challenges: Day 14

June Bookstagram Challenges (and what I got up to today) #bookishthisorthat – hosted by: @darkfaerietales_, @cbookaddiction, @novelheartbeat and @eden.hammond With each daily prompt, you choose which of the two choices you prefer. So, let’s say the choice was between Game of Thrones and the Lord of the Rings, you choose which one is your favourite and create a photo using your choice (and FYI, as much as I love GoT, it would […]

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Posted May 18, 2014 by Brin in Reviews / 14 Comments
Cinder by Marissa Meyer

To say that I loved this book would be an understatement. As a rule, I adore fairy tale retellings. I also love dystopian settings. Combining the story of Cinderella with a dystopian theme = win! Cinder is the kind of novel that really ticks my boxes. I mean, a cyborg Cinderella – it is absolute genius. Yet Cinder is more than just a fantastic premise. There is a lot of […]

Monthly Round-Up – February 2014

Posted March 1, 2014 by Brin in Discussion Posts, Monthly Wrap-Up / 6 Comments
Monthly Round-Up – February 2014

Monthly Round-Up – February 2014 February went pretty quickly which was both a good thing (as the nicer weather is hopefully drawing nearer) and also a bad thing as my mum has cancer and the doctors have advised she may not have much time left. I have been pretty busy at work which has helped take my mind off things a little and blogging has also been a big help […]

WWW Wednesdays: Week 1

Posted February 12, 2014 by Brin in Memes, WWW Wednesdays / 8 Comments
WWW Wednesdays: Week 1

WWW Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading WWW Wednesdays To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions… 1. What are you currently reading? 2. What did you recently finish reading? 3. What do you think you’ll read next? I am already taking part in quite a few memes but this one looked like a lot of fun so I couldn’t pass up the chance […]