Fantasy, philosophy, politics, action, compelling characters. In my later days of teen-hood, I realised that this was, for me, my holy formula. All the ingredients necessary to create the Perfect Book. I found this in the A Trial of Blood and Steel series by Joel Shepherd, and in George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, but […]
Read MoreIf there’s anything I learned in 2015, it’s that I’m not very good at running a blog. I’ll make promises and schedules, but never stick to them, which resulted in almost half of year of, well, nothing. Of course, there’s the full-time job to blame (which started around August) which takes up a lot of […]
Read MoreThis puts into words what I’ve been trying to get at in my reviews for Anne Bishop’s The Others series. I’ve said that despite the dark and grim nature of the books, there are very human and ordinary moments which make it so endearing. Now I realise they were endearing also because they were happy. […]
Read MoreI’ll be honest with you, blogging got tiring and reading became a job instead of a hobby. I pushed through books just to make it to my review deadline which really took the fun out of it. I felt like if I didn’t post regularly, there was no point in having this blog at all, […]
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Read MoreThese are now up on my Mini Book Banners page which you’ll be linked to if you click on the banners.
Read MoreMy books are my precious children. I cover them with clear adhesive wrap like an overprotective mother. When I read them, I make sure my hands are clean, refrain from eating, and try not to crease the spine too much. You could say I’m a tad obsessive. But who isn’t? I know plenty of book […]
Read MoreAs I grew up, I naturally began reading more adult books. They still had aspects of fun, but also included more serious themes of responsibility, identity, growing pains, darker themes of loss and death, and hormones. The books I read in primary school that gave me my first taste of this “grown-up” stuff were the Spy High […]
Read MoreThere was no book review yesterday because… 1) The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater failed to keep me hooked, and 2) I have a fear of the unread. To address the first: I’m not saying it was a bad book. I can definitely see why people loved it. The characters are interesting and vivid, and the […]
Read MoreThis afternoon, I had a go at making mini book banners. Here are the ones I’ve made for the books I’ve reviewed on this blog so far: Couldn’t find a similar font for Shadow and Bone so I just went with something that had the same feel to it. I definitely need more practice but it was […]
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