This was my first 5 start rating on Goodreads of 2020. I read it in just a few days, fortunately I had time due to recovering from the flu. It knocked me, shock me and gave me every emotion. It’s a book I want to read again because it’s just so…. full. I urge you to r...
InMy Year in BooksI wrote that quite a few of the books I read this year werecookbooks. This may have been my most interesting year yet for cookbooks, vintage and modern. Besides the cookbooks I’ve acquired, I completed or began three projects in2023that were each fascinating in their o...
Daily Express. It also shortlisted for the RNA’s Romantic Novel of the Year and longlisted for the Polari Prize 2019. Call Me Star Girl hit number one on Kobo. It also longlisted for the Not The Booker Prize and won the Best magazine Big Book Award 2019. I Am Dust is out in 2020....
Well this has been an interesting week for me as I have finished my Goodreads Challenge. I completed the 200 books that was my target at the beginning of the year. To some this will be a big number, to others not so much. While I don’t pressurise myself into having to read a cer...
Twelve-year-old Wren loves makeup—special effect makeup, to be exact. When she is experimenting with new looks, Wren can create a different version of herself. A girl who isn’t in a sort-of-best friendship with someone who seems like she hates her. A girl whose parents aren’t divo...
Here’s a quick recap of my reading year (because what good is Goodreads if you don’t share your cute “My Year in Books” graphic?!?): Now, on to my favorites… Completely coincidentally, I had almost one five-star read each month; and they run the gamut — memoir, historical fic...
Although I track my books onGoodreads, I wanted a place of my own to talk about books. I will post reviews for the most part, but I reserve the right to ramble. Leave a comment Filed underRamblings November 28, 2023 · 3:53 pm ...
All the books I read in 2020 I also wrote a great deal this year. Together with myBrilliant Noisecolleague Stephanie Hubbard we published a short book about influencers and marketing on Amazon calledCut Through The Hype. Note: it’s good for apps but not e-readers as it is a print repl...
is the first book in the Nero Trilogy and it is a fabulous introduction to his family and his childhood. I have had this on my Kindle for far too long and it should have been read much sooner. At least I have now read it and now I can’t wait till next year for the 2nd book!
In 2019, I completed theGoodreads Reading Challenge,reading 20 books for the year. In 2020,I’ve set my challenge at 30. I’ve kicked off the year readingGodsgrave, #2 in The Nevernight Chronicles by Jay Kristoff. My word of the year ...