Month: July 2020

10 Books I’m Intimidated By (but may still read!)

10 Books I’m Intimidated By (but may still read!)
Posted July 28, 2020
Books, Top 10 Tuesday

Happy Tuesday, friends! 👋🏻 This week’s Top 10 Tuesday prompt is a freebie, so I’ve decided to talk about which books I am most intimidated it. I am not afraid to admit that certain kinds of books intimidate me, whether that is because of the length of the book, the content inside the book, or even how popular the book is. There is absolutely nothing wrong with knowing what works for you and what doesn’t, but sometimes we do need to get out of our comfort zones and try out new things with our reading, so I may end up reading the books that scare me someday! Top 10 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff – Have you seen the size of this book? It’s huge! I am not used to reading gigantic YA books so this is one that I would have to take a steady pace with. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – I have had this book sitting on my shelves for a very long time and it’s another huge book that I would have to take my time with. Plus, this is one of my mum’s favourite books so that […]

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10 Bookish Locations on My Bucket List

10 Bookish Locations on My Bucket List
Posted July 21, 2020
Memes, Top 10 Tuesday

Happy Tuesday, friends! 👋🏻 This week’s Top 10 Tuesday prompt is “Bookish Events/Festivals I’d Love to Go to Someday” but since I am extremely unknowledgable when it comes to book events and literature festivals, I chose to talk about real-world locations that have literary history to them. Whether that’s because of certain books being set there, or famous authors being born there, I want to go. Travel is something that I have a love/hate relationship with because I love being in new places and going to museums and famous locations, but I absolutely hate the process of getting there. I hate airports and I can’t sit comfortably in a car for more than thirty minutes. The day that science invents instant transportation will be a very good day for me, but I can’t see that happening any time soon. Shakespeare and Co, Paris I have been to Paris a million times, but for some reason, I have never found this shop. This shop is pretty much the bookworm place to go in Paris, and yet I am so terrible at reading maps and following directions that I haven’t been to it. My family was planning to back to Paris this year, but because of the […]

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The Book Blogger Oldie Tag

The Book Blogger Oldie Tag
Posted July 7, 2020
Blogging, Tags

Hi friends! 👋🏻 A couple of months ago, Holly @ Nut Free Nerd put a blogging twist on Ariel Bissett’s BookTube Oldie Tag, to make it into the Book Blogger Oldie Tag and I loved the idea so much that I just had to do it for myself! I definitely consider myself to be an oldie blogger or a book blog veteran so this is definitely the perfect tag for me. Blogging has been a part of my life for so long that at this point I can’t really imagine not doing it. I have my moments here and there where I just disappear and come back, but it always feels like coming home because everyone has always been so welcoming 🥰 You can find Holly’s post here and Ariel’s video here! 1. How long have you been part of the book blogging community? I started blogging in September of 2011 when I was sixteen years old, so this September I will have been blogging for nine years. I did start all over this year because my old blog was getting extremely cluttered and I basically broke it, but I’ve been here for all that time so I am hardly a newbie at this […]

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Children’s Books Need to Talk About “Disturbing” Subjects

Children’s Books Need to Talk About “Disturbing” Subjects
Posted July 2, 2020
Books, Discussions, Ramblings

Hi friends! 👋🏻 I’m finally back after an unexpected hiatus. For a while, I’d had some technical difficulties with Bloglovin’ not showing my posts and also giving me a bunch of spam followers, and then I needed to improve my site security and I didn’t know how so that definitely took a hit to my motivation. But I’ve managed to get everything fixed so now following with Bloglovin’ is an option again! Yay 🥳 Today I wanted to discuss something that has been on my mind for a good while now: which is the idea that books for children should not talk about serious subjects. This was sparked by a small thread of tweets from someone who said that they couldn’t believe how “disturbing” Jacqueline Wilson’s books are and a reply that said they’re not appropriate for children. If you’re not familiar with Jacqueline Wilson, she is arguably the most popular children’s author in the UK. Her books often cover serious subjects like child abandonment, divorce, death, stepparents, adoption, divorce, and the foster care system. Obviously, her books can be pretty controversial but that doesn’t stop them from being so popular and even being read in schools. I personally think […]

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