Summer Hiatus & December Wrap Up

This month has gone so fast! So what's the goss, you ask?    Life I finally got my learner's licence! I passed the theory test with 100%. Our prime minister resigned out of the blue - whaaat? On Boxing Day (26th December) I'm going away for an indefinite period and will most likely...

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Smashing & Dashing Characters of 2016 Awards

Cait at Paper Fury created this awesome book tag and I had to do it. Because fictional characters! So, here are the best and worst characters from the books I read this year (the books don't have to be published in 2016, otherwise I couldn't do the challenge). Not spoiler-free, but I won't go into...

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5 Ways My Reading Habits Have Changed in 2016

As we've already established, 2016 hasn't been my best reading year in terms in number of books read (as of today, I've finished 22 books this whole year). Apart from reading fewer books, how else have my reading habits changed this year? Quite a lot, it turns out. I haven't been afraid to DNF...

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Top 5 Writers That Were New to Me in 2016

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read For The First Time In 2016 but I don't have a top ten because I haven't read enough books this year. So here are my top five. 1. Leo Tolstoy What I love about his writing:...

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