Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become… Continue reading ‘Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda’ by Becky Albertalli
Hi all! Recently, both Michelle from Book Adventures and Cinderzenablogs tagged me to do the 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge. I have the faint memory that someone else nominated me a month or two back – if that was you, I’m terribly sorry I didn’t do it then! Comment below and you’ll get a shout-out too! Anyway, the point of… Continue reading 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge – Day 1
Evening, all! I own a lot of unread books. And when I say a lot, I mean so many that I am too ashamed to count them, and even if I did count, I’d be too embarrassed to tell you. Today I decided to skim my shelves to assess the situation – with the intention of… Continue reading A Sneak Peak at Some Unread Books on My Shelf
It’s Top Ten Tuesday, and this week’s topic is a free choice of Valentine’s Day-related ones. I’ve selected Top Ten OTPs, as I’m not a huge reader of romance novels, and I don’t think I could come up with 10 best reads for Valentine’s Day, so I’ve gone with a mildly romance-themed topic that can… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesdays: Top Ten OTPs
It’s been far too long since I did a tag post, given how much I love writing them! It was only when I read Rose Read’s ‘Inside Out’ book tag that I realised how much I missed a good book tag, and despite never having watched ‘Inside Out’ (I must do so soon) the characters… Continue reading The ‘Inside Out’ Book Tag
I am literally the worst person in the world for doing this, and I have done it so many times and failed, but this is my list of 10 books I will DEFINITELY (probably) read this year. I’ve scoured my shelves for books which I was desperate to read when I bought them, and yet… Continue reading Ten Books I WILL Read This Year
Every ninety years, twelve gods return as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It’s happening now. It’s happening again. The team behind critical tongue-attractors like Young Avengers and PHONOGRAM reunite to create a world where gods are the ultimate pop stars and pop stars are the… Continue reading ‘The Wicked + The Divine Volume 1: The Faust Act’ by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
Behold, the mega list of all the books, plays, short stories and poems I read in 2015, complete with ratings. Not as long a list as last year – only 78 works on it – but not bad all the same. Same rules as always apply: re-reads do not count, all ratings are subject to… Continue reading What I Read This Year 2015 Edition
Anna has everything figured out – she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job, and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere… Until her dad decides to send her 4383 miles away to Paris. On her own. But despite not… Continue reading Bite-Size Corner – ‘Anna and the French Kiss’ by Stephanie Perkins
Water. It covers almost three-quarters of the planet, comprises more than half the human body, and has become the most coveted resource on Earth. Amaya de los Santos survived the typhoon that left her an orphan. Now she scrapes by as an ice poacher, illegally harvesting fresh water for an always-thirsty market. But when she… Continue reading ‘Blue Karma’ by J.K. Ullrich
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