Hello, hello, hello! I haven’t done a blogger award in a long time but the lovely Florence over at Miscellany Pages tagged me in the Mystery Blogger Award back in September 2020 and I didn’t see it until recently so I thought I’d take part. The award was created by Okoto. Rules: Put the award… Continue reading The Mystery Blogger Award
Title: Wives and Daughters Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Publisher: Oxford University Press Date: 2009 (1863) Genre: Fiction / Classics Summary: Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman’s presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia,… Continue reading Book Review: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
2020 was a year of discovery for me. I read a lot of new-to-me authors and I found a few new favourites to add to my list. This is just a list of the new-to-me authors I read in 2020 and the books I read. Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron (c.1353) I started 2020 by read plague… Continue reading New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020
I’m really enjoying these posts about Shakespeare’s contemporaries. No-one else cares but I like the surface level research I’m doing – I never knew reading biographies and whatnot could be so interesting. Francis Beaumont, born 1584, was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu, near Thringstone in Leicestershire, who was a justice of… Continue reading Shakespeare Saturdays: Francis Beaumont (Shakespeare’s Contemporaries #5)
Welcome to the nonsense that is my yearly reading stats post! As you will find out, I like graphs and charts but I’ve tried to keep this as short as possible. I like doing these posts because I find the breakdown really interesting – of other people’s reading habits as well as my own –… Continue reading 2020 Reading Stats
Although I managed to read 50 books in 2020, it was, at times, a struggle to get through books. I can comfortably say that I was in a reading slump between the beginning of April and mid-December. However, I did read a lot of great books last year and these are my favourites. I haven’t included… Continue reading Best Books I Read in 2020
Title: The Stranger TimesAuthor: C. K. McDonnellPublisher: Bantam PressPublication Date: 14th January 2021Genre: Mystery / FantasySummary: There are Dark Forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular) and so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them. A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but more often… Continue reading ARC Book Review: The Stranger Times by C. K. McDonnell
A yearly round-up of my favourite things that aren’t book-related! I’ll post a list of my favourite books of 2020 at some point. I listened to a lot of music this year. Not as much as I usually would – probably because I wasn’t commuting every day – but I have a lot of favourite… Continue reading 2020 Favourites
Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say. – from Primroses, Alfred Austin Earthlings by Sayaka Murata Translator: Ginny Tapley Takemori Summary: Natsuki isn’t like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu,… Continue reading January 2021 TBR
December was a decent month for me! I submitted a new draft of my second thesis chapter – because I decided to rewrite the entire thing on a whim – and I managed to finish both books I started in November and read a few more books. Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day were… Continue reading #MonthlyWrapUp: December 2020
