Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme previously hosted by the lovely folks @ The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl My Ten Favourite Sweet Dreams Titles This week’s a freebie so I’ve decided to put on my nostalgia goggles and list my top ten favourite Sweet Dreams books! Although it’s doubtful I ever managed to read every book as a teen (there are […]
Remembering My Teen Years: Celebrity Crushes I tend to be a very nostalgic person – that’s probably why I started collecting vintage YA books a few years ago and why I return to my favourite books, movies, and television shows over and over again. I saw the trailer for Kid 90 (the documentary directed, produced, and starring Soleil Moon Frye – most well-known for her iconic role in Punky Brewster) […]
Top 5 Wednesday was originally created by Lainey @GingerReadsLainey – you can join the Goodreads group HERE Underhyped Stars (of Yesteryear) I’m a day late (aren’t I usually? haha!) but I wanted to do this topic as there are many books that I have read that I loved but hadn’t really heard any buzz about before in the book community. I have compiled variations of this topic before (here, here, […]
Cover Retrospective: Sweet Valley High The Sweet Valley High covers (the originals, at least) were iconic. I first came across them in my local library and I was hooked in by the glamorous cover models and soft pastel palettes. The covers were painted by James Mathewuse, a book cover artist known for his work on the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series (incidentally, he also created the cover art for […]
Happy Valentine’s Day guys and gals! Some people go all out for Valentine’s Day though I’ve always been a bit meh on the whole thing. However, I’m a big fan of romance in books so it seems kinda wrong to let this day go past without a post about some of my favourite ships. Now, I don’t mean actual ships here but book couples that I ‘shipped’ before I even […]