Category: TBR Lists

Dipping My Toes Back into Paranormal Romance

Dipping My Toes Back into Paranormal Romance
Posted February 8, 2025
Books, TBR Lists

Hi friends! 👋🏻 When I first started blogging (which was a very long time ago now, yes I’m old), my favourite genres were YA dystopian and YA paranormal romance. And there were a lot of books in those genres. So many that I eventually got burnt out on them and almost swore them off forever. Until recently that is. I’m still not the biggest lover of romance books because I am very picky with what I want to see in a romance story. I don’t like enemies-to-lovers stories, miscommunication bugs the hell out of me, I need the book to explicitly tell me that it has BDSM or other kinks in it, dark romance isn’t for me, and I hate bully romances. Very picky indeed. I’m not that observant of trends, but I’ve noticed a little trend in fluffy paranormal romances for adults recently, and that is something that I want to try. I don’t want every paranormal romance to be pure fluff or else my teeth would fall out, but that is what I’m in the mood for these days. Especially when they’ve got vampires in them. my vampire plus-one by jenna levine Ah, yes, the book that started the idea […]

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Black Horror on My October TBR

Black Horror on My October TBR
Posted October 5, 2024
Books, Spooky Month, TBR Lists

Hi friends 👋🏻 Happy Black History Month and happy October! This year, I wanted to do something different for Spooky Month, by tying it into Black History Month, so my TBR for this year is only Black authors and my watchlist will be as many movies by Black directors that I haven’t seen before. This is something that I decided I would do earlier in the year, and now that it’s here, I’m excited to be exploring Black Horror more than I have before. Just a little disclaimer for anyone who’s confused about why I’m talking about Black History Month: Black History Month takes place in October in the UK, not February. It’s celebrated in February in the USA because it coincides with the births of two figures who are important in Black American history: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In the UK, we chose October because that is traditionally when African chiefs and leaders would gather to settle their differences. It also started in 1987, which was the 150th anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the Caribbean. the reformatory by tananarive due This one is my current read! Tananarive Due is an author that I’ve known about for years thanks […]

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My Wyrd & Wonder TBR

My Wyrd & Wonder TBR
Posted May 4, 2024
Books, TBR Lists, Wyrd & Wonder

Hello hello! 👋🏻 This is my first time participating in Wyrd & Wonder and I’m very glad to be here! I don’t have a concrete plan of what I’m going to post throughout the month, but I think we’ll all have a good time anyway 🙂 The theme for this year is comfort zone, but when reading back through this post, it looks like I kind of forgot about that and went for books that are just slightly out of my comfort zone. Whoops. But then again, I’m not a hardcore fantasy fan so I guess I could be venturing out of the comfort zone by picking up fantasy books to begin with. rule of wolves by leigh bardugo I’ve been reading this book for what feels like months now and I was hoping to have it finished before the beginning of this month, but as of the time I’m writing this post, I’m about 75% through. That does happen when you only read three chapters a day. I am enjoying the book and I do still love the Grishaverse, but some of the chapters are so long they can feel like a slog to get through when I’m tired and on a crowded train. […]

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My Sci-Fi Month TBR

My Sci-Fi Month TBR
Posted November 1, 2023
Books, Sci-Fi Month, TBR Lists

Hi crew! 👋🏻 November is Sci-Fi Month and time for me to devote my reading and watching habits to the genre. I didn’t participate last year due to being very busy with assignments and whatnot, but that’s all behind me now so I have time to come back to blogging! I didn’t go for a particular theme with this year’s TBR, but rather books that I’ve been meaning to read for a long time or suit my current goals of having more diverse reading habits, whether that’s intentional or not. i am legend by richard matheson Naturally, I’m still in the horror mood (when am I not) and wanted something that is both sci-fi and horror and I Am Legend was the first thing to come to mind. I’ve just started reading this one so I don’t have a lot to say about it so far, but it’s one that’s been on my general TBR for a very long time. this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone Like a lot of people, I came to know this book because of someone on Xitter called ‘Bigolas Dickolas’, and as a proud member of the Funny Xitter Display Name […]

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Asian Horror on My TBR and Watchlist

Asian Horror on My TBR and Watchlist
Posted October 7, 2023
Books, Movies, Spooky Month, TBR Lists, Watchlists

Hi ghouls, long time so see! 👋🏻 I am always looking for ways to diversify my reading and watching habits, especially when it comes to horror. Different cultures have different things that they find scary and it’s always fascinating to learn about past and present social issues that influence stories as well as folklore and mythology. Originally, this post was just about Japanese horror but I decided to branch out and look for horror from all over Asia and from Asian diaspora people all over the world. Asia’s a big place with a huge amount of different cultures so it’s not fair to narrow what I’m looking for down to just one single country. An unfortunate thing I ran into when compiling this list was a big lack of South Asian horror and almost next to nothing from West Asia or the Middle East. A lot of people still forget that Asia is not just China, Korea and Japan so a lot of what I found is from East and Southeast Asia. (i did a class on orientalism in literature when i was in university and one classmate complained the whole time that we didn’t look at any chinese literature, […]

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