July has been such a busy, strange month on my end, and it feels like it has gone on for a very long time. Maybe that’s just because it has been so hectic. On one hand, I’ve been a mess of insomnia this past month, which is super fun. If I were awake enough to… Continue reading July Wrap Up & August Plans
Happy Saturday! This week has been absolutely bonkers. We got a dog earlier this week, are stuck in the middle of a brutal heat wave, my partner gets heat exhaustion really easily, and I’ve been getting weird food allergies. So things have been fun. And I haven’t read a lot. But I have been listening… Continue reading Saturday Song: Save Myself by The Sam Willows
The small town in south Tipperary in Ireland where I grew up had a population of 5,000 and when I was a teenager I began taking black and white photographs of local people in the places where they worked and lived. My mum knew the editor of the local newspaper – everybody knows everybody in… Continue reading A Sense of Place – A Guest Post by A.P. McGrath
Her throne awaits . . . if she can live long enough to take it. It was on her nineteenth birthday that the soldiers came for Kelsea Glynn. They’d come to escort her back to the place of her birth – and to ensure she survives long enough to be able to take possession of… Continue reading Review: The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted on Taking On A World Of Words (previously hosted on A Daily Rhythm) that asks you three very important questions: What are you currently reading? What did you finish reading recently? What do you think you’ll read next? What Are You Currently Reading? In this collection, meet: Guillaume, who gives up… Continue reading WWW Wednesday [26/07/17]
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted on The Broke and the Bookish. But they’re on break. So I’m making up my own topic because the idea popped into my head last night and I decided to run with it. So here’s the scenario: You’ve come to visit my place. We order in food and… Continue reading Books I Would Recommend From My Own Shelf, If You Came Over to Read
The text message is just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her now. Something terrible has been found on the beach.… Continue reading Review: The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
