November Wrap Up

  Life I had my birthday! I still don't feel 19 yet. Uni ended. I had an exam and got my final results. Now I have 3 months until Year 2! My country had a major earthquake! I didn't feel it though. For those of us who weren't affected, it was great, because it gave the media something...

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9 Things I Disliked About Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison

Pretty language doesn't make a book unproblematic. I didn't hate everything about this book, but it's so problematic I can't rate it any higher than 1 star. I don't recommend it to anyone. Don't read it. Here's why. (Warning: This review is extremely spoilery so that I can explain my distaste.)   First,...

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Stacking the Shelves: Library Haul

   Stacking The Shelves is a meme created by Tynga’s Reviews. The following links go to Goodreads. I went for a walk because today was lovely and sunny and I hadn't left the house in a week, so I was getting cabin fever. I felt like going to the library, because while I've been...

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My 2016 Reading Stats

2016 has been a worse reading year than 2015, but I can blame that on uni - you read a lot more for uni than you do for school, and this ruins a) your time for reading for pleasure and b) your enthusiasm for reading. I've read 18 books total! (But two of these were over 1,100 pages long...) That's...

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Top Ten LGBTQ-Related Films

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is movie freebie, so here are ten films that feature LGBTQ characters and themes. Links go to IMDb pages. 1. The Perfume of Memory (2016)  2. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) 3. Heavenly...

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Review: Pompeii by Robert Harris

The punny quotes on the outside and inside covers killed me. Summary A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous...

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: The Red Queen (The Obernewtyn Chronicles #7) by Isobelle Carmody

Exciting ending makes up for slow rest of novel. The good Elspeth (protagonist) isn't hung up on her missing love interest, and Gets Shit Done. The whole Habitat plot at the start was interesting, although it could (probably should) have been a separate book in its own right. More worldbuilding...

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A New Favourite: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

Jane Austen meets JRR Tolkien I watched the 2016 BBC mini-series a few months ago, which made me want to read the book. In case you don't know, the book is a monster, and it took me exactly 2 months to read. I read the ebook, not the physical book pictured, for this reason. War and Peace...

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October: a busy month

Winter's out, summer's in! Life I was hardly active on this blog last month. If you missed me, here are the possible reasons why: University ended, so I had all sorts of assignments due! (Now I only have one exam next week, on the 7th (which is also my birthday...) and then I've completed my...

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