Heart Full of Elves

Being brutally honest about books

Tuesday, 26 January 2016

Top Ten LGBTQ Characters

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Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week is freebie week, where you pick a topic "near and dear to your heart". Since LGBTQ representation is extremely important to me, I thought I'd pick my ten favourite characters belonging to this group. 70% are from...

Sunday, 17 January 2016

Just a head's up

    
I'm in the process of changing the colour palette of my blog theme, so if it looks weird for a while that's why. (I changed some of the colours today but I got tired and stopped.) I'm not too familiar with the HTML of Blogger themes so I have to use the age-old method of trial and error. It's quite exhausti...

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Top Ten 2015 Releases I Meant To Get To But Didn't

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Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten 2015 Releases You Meant To Get To But Didn't. I was terrible at my book-reading in 2015 (I failed my reading challenge by 3 books, noooo!) but I got a new library card today so I'm hoping that...

Tuesday, 22 December 2015

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Top Ten Best Books I Read In 2015

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Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten Best Books I Read In 2015 (by only 2015 releases, overall, by genre, etc). 1.   Ask the Passengers by A.S. King 2. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 3. Maya's Notebook...

Friday, 20 November 2015

Book Tag: How I Read

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Thank you Nemo at The Moonlight Library! How do you find out about new books to read? Through other bloggers who have reviewed or mentioned new and upcoming releases. Sometimes through my mum, as she's a librarian. How did you get into reading? I don't remember; I think I always loved stories and books. How have your tastes in books changed as you got older? I don't read Jacqueline Wilson anymore,...

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Update

    
I changed my blog theme again because I wanted the labels on my posts to be visible and I also wanted my sidebar info to fit without having to zoom out. Even though I tried making the font bigger on this new theme that didn't seem to work, but zooming in once makes the text readable. I have also changed my alias to Alexandria, as that's my pen name. I may as well use the same name across all the...

Sunday, 11 October 2015

My Reading Stats in 2015

         
This year I have read fewer books than any other year. There are several things that have got in the way of my book reading: school, TV shows, and fanfiction (both reading and writing huge amounts). I knew these would interfere with my reading even at the start of the year, so I set a fairly low Goodreads reading challenge of only 40 books. With only a few months to go, even though I just finished...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium Trilogy #3) by Stieg Larsson

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 Date finished: 11 October 2015 I just finished the last book of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, and I'm worried that I'll never be able to enjoy anything I read ever again. I feel that no other book will compare in complexity and intrigue. It's by no means a perfect book but it...
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.

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