I went to a bookish event

hey! so I went to a bookish event. I've never talked about bookish events on my blog before now, but I have commented on other people's blogs about how I want to go to a bookish event. I thought it'd be a fun idea to share my experience at the event with you guys because …

reading aloud

Hi, after watching Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them I was in a Harry Potter mood. My younger brother wanted to read the Harry Potter series and I thought it would be a good idea to read them with him so that we can have discussions about the books, and really just for some …

diverse literature being taught in schools

Hi, If you follow me on Twitter then you'd know that I am very passionate about diversity in all forms of media, that's including books. After my last English Literature exam, I started a conversation on twitter about my feelings towards the texts that I've had to study in school and how the lack of diversity …

The Library – Part Two

Hey, I started a 'mini-series' on my blog, about a month ago, all about the library. In my last post in this series, I talked about the cons of the library. If you'd like to go see that post you can click here to go straight to it. As I've previously talked about the negatives it's …

Bricks You Can Read and Fall Asleep With by Dane Cobin

Hi, I recently received an email from the author and poet, Dane Cobin, asking if I wanted to work on a few things with him on my blog. Over the past few months I've been reading/listening to a lot more poetry, and asked if he could write a poem for my blog, all he needed …

sexual orientation – labelling and educating ourselves

Hi, Victoria from hermionefowl made a post called Sexuality – Do We Need Labels? in this post, she made so many good points about labels and how they can pressure us into fitting into a certain category but also how they can help us find new people who we have something in common with. Her post really got …

THE LIBRARY – PART ONE

Hey, A while ago on Twitter I saw a bunch of tweets discussing reading being a financial investment and from this came discussions on the use of the libraries. https://twitter.com/emmmabooks/status/741283241102020609 If you'd like to see more of the discussion and things that were brought up though this tweet just check out the replies to this tweet. I use …

THINGS READERS DO WHICH I JUST CAN’T

Hey, Over the many years that I've been reading I have noticed a few things that people do while reading which for some unknown reason I can't do. I've usually heard of people doing this on the internet or actually seen people doing this. So here's my list of things reader do which I just can't. …

READING THE REVIEW BEFORE READING THE BOOK – MY THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS

Hey, The other day I was reading a post, that Michelle from Book Adventures made, called Ramblings | Do you read reviews before or after you’ve read the book? and it really got me thinking about starting to read more reviews before I read a book. I am the kind of person who reads a review …

AUDIO BOOKS – MY THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS

Hey, The other day I was scrolling through my feed and I saw Michelle, from Book Adventures, post Ramblings – Are Audio Books Considered “Real” Books? and it inspired me to write about what I thought about audio books.   In January I started reading the Iron Trials by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare and I just couldn't …