What I read in September

If your blog posts are late every week, are they ever really late? Not that I think anyone pays particular attention to my posting schedule – I like to stick to one mainly for my own sake. It keeps me accountable and helps me plan. Unfortunately life has been getting in the way of that…

The Feelings Tag

This post is coming to you a little late as I’ve had a very long and busy week. Luckily it’s been a fun one to write. It’s been a couple of weeks since Naemi @ A Book Owl’s Corner tagged me in this tag. I’m so glad I’m came across her blog a couple of…

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides – A Review

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face,…

Ranking Jane Austen

My first Jane Austen novel was Emma. I picked up my copy in the small English language section of a bookshop in my town back when I was living in Germany. The major appeal of the book at the time was, admittedly, the cover. I believe I’ve bragged about my lovely Vintage Classics editions of…

What I read in August

August has been a busy month for me. I started working full-time and also did some extra teaching on a couple of weekends. I have less free time for reading now that I don’t have the freedom to manage my own schedule as I did in uni. Most of my reading is done on buses…

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – A Review

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region. Noemí…

Why I stopped reading YA novellas

It’s fairly common nowadays, particularly in the young adult genre, for authors to release additional novellas and short stories to supplement a series. Sometimes they do this to offer a different perspective on certain events, to provide backstory or to more deeply explore a secondary character. Sometimes these stories just offer a fun opportunity to…

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