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BOOKBLOG: Alice Oseman

June 30, 2017June 25, 20172 Comments

Radio Silence: honest, emotive and necessary "What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside.But when Frances meets Aled, … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Alice Oseman

BOOKBLOG: Peadar Ó Guilín

June 22, 2017June 11, 20175 Comments

The Call: dark, gritty, brutal. Dystopian done proper. "Imagine a world where you might disappear any minute, only to find yourself alone in a grey sickly land, with more horrors in it than you would ever wish to know about. And then you hear a horn and you know that whoever lives in this hell … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Peadar Ó Guilín

BOOKBLOG: Queen Mel

June 2, 2017May 28, 20176 Comments

Hello, I'm Steph. I love Melinda Salisbury. Not in a creepy way. I think she's absolutely wonderful.  So when I heard The Sin Eater's Daughter trilogy was over, I was most saddened. My love affair with this world and these characters had to come to and end after all of the years I had been in … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Queen Mel

BOOKBLOG: Matt Haig

May 8, 2017April 30, 20174 Comments

Reasons To Stay Alive: honest, important, emotive. "WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Matt Haig

April Books

April 30, 2017May 28, 2017Leave a comment

It's that time again, April has come and gone! This year is flying by! We're in the final term... (as a teacher, I count my life in terms ha! This means I have only 1 term until I start training... this makes me wanna vomit. We will get to that in a future blog post!) … Continue reading April Books

SundayYAthon at Easter!

April 21, 2017April 20, 20172 Comments

This Easter weekend was my 2nd (maybe 3rd?) time of joining in a SundayYAthon and I loved it! For those of you who don't know, #SundayYA is a chat that happens every Sunday between 6 and 7pm and I love it. We've had all sorts of chats over the past few weeks and it's ran … Continue reading SundayYAthon at Easter!

BOOKBLOG: Rachael Lucas

April 13, 2017April 9, 20172 Comments

The State of Grace: moving, insightful and wonderful. "Sometimes I feel like everyone else was handed a copy of the rules for life and mine got lost. Grace has Asperger's and her own way of looking at the world. She's got a horse and a best friend who understand her, and that's pretty much all … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Rachael Lucas

BOOKBLOG: ALICE BROADWAY

April 7, 2017April 2, 201717 Comments

Ink: beautifully written story about the importance of how we remember people. "Every action, every deed, every significant moment is tattooed on your skin for ever. When Leora's father dies, she is determined to see her father remembered forever. She knows he deserves to have all his tattoos removed and made into a Skin Book … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: ALICE BROADWAY

Challenge Update & TBR

April 4, 2017April 2, 20172 Comments

In 2017 I challenged myself to read 52 books (1 per week!). Totally doable. So far I'm on track!  I'm up to 16/52 and it's almost Easter half term (I'll be spending lots of half term writing my dissertation BUT I will make time for reading, I'm taking part in the #SundayYAathon for Easter, so … Continue reading Challenge Update & TBR

BOOKBLOG: Emily Barr

March 10, 2017March 5, 20174 Comments

The One Memory of Flora Banks: heartbreaking, engaging and memorable. "Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day, and has since the age of ten, when the tumor that was removed from Flora's brain took with it her ability to make new memories. That is, until she kisses … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Emily Barr

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