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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The Fabulousness of Ebooks

Ereaders aren't a new thing, but in my experience they are severely underrated, and some people think they're superior beings for preferring paper to electronic books. I would like to stress that preferring to read one way does not make you any better than people who prefer to read another way. There...

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Goodreads Book Tag

I came across this cute little book tag on The Review Room and decided to share what I've been reading recently. As you may know from an earlier rant, I love Goodreads and use it every day, so if here's what my profile kind of looks like at the moment. What was the last book you marked as read? ...

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Poet in the Spotlight: Sappho

Happy National Poetry Day, everyone! I'm not a poetry fan. I'm really not. I just tend to...not get it. But I adore Sappho, a famous poetess from Lesbos who lived around 600BCE. Most of her work is lost, but the fragments that remain are beautiful - she says so much in just a few words. So...

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