So let's get this out of the way - this is not to bash e-books or e-readers. I love e-books, pretty much most of the books I've read during lockdown are electronic and frankly the whole e-book debate is tired. No, this Black Friday, I want to continue my conversation about quitting Amazon and today [...]
Cemetery Boys | Aiden Thomas ★★★ Cemetery Boys is a lot of things - a romance story, a story of acceptance for a trans boy, a supernatural fantasy tale. It centres around Yadriel as he summons a spirit to pass it on to the afterlife which only brujos can do - in order to prove [...]
Over the summer I decided to reread The Chronicles of Narnia. I had basically zero recollection of the books beyond my childhood favourite, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (henceforth, LWW) and boy, was I disappointed. But I powered through it and it took enough of my time to earn itself this BUMPER blog [...]
Are you ready to break from the shackles of Amazon but aren't sure where else to reliably buy books online? Look no further, for I have put together a mini-series on how you too can break up with Amazon. Today is Part 1 - online bookshop alternatives to Amazon. I have been slowly trying to [...]
Hello friends! I'm back from my long and frankly, unplanned blogging hiatus, but this topic really got me wanting to write again. I've been thinking and reading a lot about JKR and how people are responding to the author's transphobia. It's something that we've been aware of for a while, but perhaps could ignore a [...]
The last week of June marked 100 days of lockdown in the UK. My work isn't due to open our offices until September and cautiously at that. Though I am definitely more on the hermit side of the scale, cabin fever has definitely set in and I look forward to a change of scenery in [...]
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins ★★★ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is told through the third-person perspective of Coriolanus Snow whose once-rich family has been devastated due to the war between the Capitol and the Rebels. Ten years after victory, his family are living in relative poverty and their only [...]
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