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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Top Ten Characters I'd Name a Cat After

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Ten Characters I'd Name A Child/Dog/Cat/Car etc After. I'll be using characters from a combination of books, films, and TV shows this week (some of the books have screen adaptations, so that's the version...

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Top Ten Villains on TV

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is All About the Villains. I decided to do my ten favourite villains on TV, since I don't tend to like villains in books, but I sometimes do on television. 1. Lucretia (Spartacus) She has a great...

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Stacking the Shelves

   Stacking The Shelves is a meme created by Tynga’s Reviews. This is my first time participating, but I got some new books today and haven't posted in a while, so here we go! Links go to Goodreads. This afternoon, my mum and I went into a second-hand bookshop we like but haven't been...

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Lying about reading a book

I've read and watched a lot of things in which characters lied about having read a specific book (and eventually having it backfire). I've also come across people on the internet who say they've lied about reading a certain book. The books people lie about reading are usually classic literature and popular fiction. I want to know why this happens. Why lie about reading a book? Do these people...

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Top Ten F/F Relationships on TV

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is to do a television-related topic, so I've chosen to do my ten favourite female/female relationships on television, past and present. Some of these are ships, some are friendships, some are antagonistic relationships....

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