Being brutally honest about books

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Not a review

Hi there, I just wanted to share that I got these awesome star ratings images from this blog here. The blog has a page of features that you can download for your own blog, which is really nice of the blogger, as well as usef...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

  Date finished: 2 March 2014 As a huge fan of the movies, I wanted to enjoy this more than I actually did. The movies are incredible. But the book is not. For someone who is in this fandom and enjoyed The Hobbit, it's hard for me to say this, but: Tolkien just wasn't that great an...

Sunday, 9 March 2014

Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman

  Date finished: 19 September 2012 Review originally posted on Goodreads I read Northern Nights by Philip Pullman in September. I really enjoyed the book, and continued to read the rest of the series. The story starts when the main character, Lyra, and her daemon, Pantalaimon,  accidentally...

Saturday, 8 March 2014

Makeover

I had the idea when I was reading a review by elfswood this morning. I decided that I should transform this blog into a real review blog. So I downloaded the Blogger app for my phone and went through all my old posts, cringing at what I said and read five, six years ago. I hadn't realised but when I started this blog I intended to talk about the books that I was reading. Somehow, something changed...
I'm Alexandria, a 19-year-old reader/writer/blogger from New Zealand. I love language, history, and sci-fi. Hi! I'm always around if you want to talk, which you can do via comments, the contact form, or Facebook.

Contact Form

Name

Email *

Message *

Powered by Blogger.