Floored: what happens when you put some of YA's biggest names together? Brilliance. "When they got in the lift, they were strangers (though didn't that guy used to be on TV?): Sasha, who is desperately trying to deliver a parcel; Hugo, who knows he's the best-looking guy in the lift and is eyeing up Velvet, … Continue reading BOOK BLOG: Floored
Sunday again? HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? I'm sure someone keeps stealing my weekends *crying face* Here we are... in the world of #SixforSunday with a pretty vague prompt today. I'm interested to see how everyone else does their posts! Today's prompt is: Favourite partners I've gone with a mixture of romantic partners and partners in … Continue reading S4S – favourite partners
It Only Happens In The Movies: heart-breaking and moving. "Audrey is over romance. Since her parents' relationship imploded her mother's been catatonic, so she takes a cinema job to get out of the house. But there she meets wannabe film-maker Harry. Nobody expects Audrey and Harry to fall in love as hard and fast as … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Holly Bourne
Last week, during half term, the gorgeous people of Waterstones Newcastle brought to us 2 of my favourite authors: Holly Bourne and Tom Fletcher. Now it's not very often we get authors in the North so often, so I was VERY happy when I found out they'd both be here! Holly Bourne was here promoting … Continue reading Events!
This past weekend, my friend Kelly (over at Kelly's Ramblings) decided we would get some of the samplers we got at YALC read! It was really tough choosing the 5 we would read but in the end we came up with these: (I was in my trusty Starbucks, at the window, as usual on a Sunday!) … Continue reading #SamplerSunday
I'll Be Home For Christmas: honest, frank and emotive. This collection of poems and stories by some of the leading UK YA authors is a brilliant book and it's for a BRILLIANT cause - with each book that's bought a donation is given to Crisis. Lovely idea. Well done Stripes publishing! This collection is all … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Tom Becker
It's Wednesday, you know what that means! It's GUEST BLOG POST TIME! This time you get the joy of hearing from one of my favourite people in the world. Readers, this is Rachel. Rachel is the absolute mastermind behind #SundayYA (which is an incredible twitter chat which happens between 6 and 7 EVERY Sunday where … Continue reading What I’m Reading This Christmas
So here we are again... the rest of the day to round up! I feel like I could natter on about YAShot for more than 2 blog posts, but I will keep it short and sweet (well... no. I'll not go on for hours!) If you haven't already read my first blog post then you'll … Continue reading YAShot 2016: Pt 2
I recently finished the third installment of Holly Bourne's Spinster Club/Normal Series trilogy and it was amazing. What's A Girl Gotta Do officially is described as "HOW TO START A FEMINIST REVOLUTION: 1. Call out anything that is unfair on one gender 2. Don’t call out the same thing twice (so you can sleep and … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Holly Bourne
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