So let's get this out of the way - this is not to bash e-books or e-readers. I love e-books, pretty much most of the books I've read during lockdown are electronic and frankly the whole e-book debate is tired. No, this Black Friday, I want to continue my conversation about quitting Amazon and today [...]
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Cemetery Boys Was Not Quite Thrilling Enough
Cemetery Boys | Aiden Thomas ★★★ Cemetery Boys is a lot of things - a romance story, a story of acceptance for a trans boy, a supernatural fantasy tale. It centres around Yadriel as he summons a spirit to pass it on to the afterlife which only brujos can do - in order to prove [...]
The Chronicles of Narnia Books are not as Fantastical as I Remembered
Over the summer I decided to reread The Chronicles of Narnia. I had basically zero recollection of the books beyond my childhood favourite, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (henceforth, LWW) and boy, was I disappointed. But I powered through it and it took enough of my time to earn itself this BUMPER blog [...]
Online Bookshops to Shop at Instead of Amazon: Breaking up with Amazon (Part I)
Are you ready to break from the shackles of Amazon but aren't sure where else to reliably buy books online? Look no further, for I have put together a mini-series on how you too can break up with Amazon. Today is Part 1 - online bookshop alternatives to Amazon. I have been slowly trying to [...]
Can We Still Enjoy Harry Potter? | Discussion
Hello friends! I'm back from my long and frankly, unplanned blogging hiatus, but this topic really got me wanting to write again. I've been thinking and reading a lot about JKR and how people are responding to the author's transphobia. It's something that we've been aware of for a while, but perhaps could ignore a [...]
June Wrap Up: 100 Days of Lockdown & A Mega Wrap Up
The last week of June marked 100 days of lockdown in the UK. My work isn't due to open our offices until September and cautiously at that. Though I am definitely more on the hermit side of the scale, cabin fever has definitely set in and I look forward to a change of scenery in [...]
Spoiler-Free: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is No Hunger Games
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins ★★★ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is told through the third-person perspective of Coriolanus Snow whose once-rich family has been devastated due to the war between the Capitol and the Rebels. Ten years after victory, his family are living in relative poverty and their only [...]
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