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book reviewer. writer. phd student.
Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! I completely forgot to annouce my TBR for the O.W.L's Magical Readathon that I'm participating in this month! I decided to do my O.W.L's so I can do my NEWTS next month! I'm pretty excited, but before I devle into my TBR, I should say that if you want more information [...]
words are messy.love is messier. G'day friends! Today is a glorious day in Melbourne, still kind of cold but the sun is shining and the skies are blue with beautiful fluffy clouds. I think it is a fabulous Melbourne day for the review that I'm about to write! What better way to talk about a [...]
Weekly Check-In I'm at that stage in the year when literally everything on my TBR is not satisfying my bookish cravings. Does anyone else get like that? Like, you just stare at your mountain of books and think, meh I don't want to read anything. That's the point I am at currently. I was doing [...]
I am going to say this right now: this review will contain all the spoilery content! so! be! warned! CW: character death, instances of bullying, racism (alien racism?), soulmate insta-love (is that a trigger warning? in this case, possibly yes). G'day friends! As I'm writing this, I am in my pyjamas, on a kind-of sunny [...]
G'day friends! Today, I bring to you a review for Heart of Stone by Ben Galley, as part of the epic TheWriteReads Blog Tour! I'm super excited to write this as I'm writing this slightly differently than usual... I'm going to write this review in increments, in that, each 100ish pages, I'll be writing my [...]
G'day friends! Today, I kind of want to do a slightly different post. I was reading Tim Parks' novel, Where Am I Reading From? for my thesis and I came across this little section where he talks about how he's childhood bookshelf kind of prophesised where his interests would and/or wouldn't lie in the future. [...]
ROMANOV BY NADINE BRANDES G'day friends! So, I wasn't planning on writing this review (because I have so many other reviews that I urgently need to write *NetGalley screams at me in the distance*) but I just finished this book yesterday (as I'm writing this) and I kind of need to write my thoughts, because [...]
I love reading poetry. I think that's a fact that just about everyone who follows me knows by now. I especially love discovering poetry that I've never before seen or read, and in the case of today's review, this was the case. In the most broadest sense, Where I Ache by Megan O'Keefe is a [...]
*slowly raises head from behind the couch* Hi. It has literally been over a FOUR MONTHS but I'm finally doing this tag! I want to thank the amazing and wonderful Kelly from PaperBackAdventures for the tag! I highly recommend reading her responses because they're really awesome! Show her all the love, please! Let's do this! favourite books of all time [...]
Houdini vs. Rasputin by C. Michael Forsyth was an interesting and entertaining historical fiction read, one that was action-packed and filled with suspense. I would characterise it as a historical fiction adventure, set in Tsarist Russia between the years 1903-1911. It depicts a story between two powerful men: Harry Houdini and Rasputin in a 'hero' [...]
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