2019 Booket List

A couple of weeks ago after work, I got off the train and on the platform was a woman, standing, waiting, one hand on her luggage and the other hand propping a book open as she read in the middle of all the hustle and bustle. I can’t quite explain why this particular instance really

2. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

☆ ☆ ☆ (Discusses the sensitive topic of death and some explicit details about traumatic events and gruesome human body stuff, themes of violence, illness, traumatic deaths, war, animal suffering and death, etc) This maybe isn’t the cheeriest way to start off a year of reading, but it is an area I’m weirdly, morbidly fascinated

1. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ (No explicit spoilers but some minor details mentioned/discussed) It’s always quite daunting going into a book that has had so much acclaim, but at the same time seems to be the very definition of a “Marmite book”. I remember picking up a copy of Conversations with Friends after hearing a little about it, reading the blurb and thinking,

Books to read in 2019

Every reader has that stack of books they keep meaning to read next but they somehow sit getting dustier on the back burner. It’s almost hard to finally commit to reading that book, because you’ve heard so many good things and built it up to the extent that you don’t want to shatter your own

2019 Reading Goals

Reading is no exception to the flurry of fresh starts defining the month of January. There’s definitely an element of excitement to setting goals and making lists of which books you’re going to read that year, and they don’t necessarily carry the weight of obligation that New Year’s resolutions can. Here are my goals for

My Favourite Books of 2018

A Clash of Kings ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I loved the TV show, which is why I started reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series in the first place, but I didn’t expect to enjoy A Game of Thrones quite as much as I did. After finishing it in October last year, I couldn’t stop thinking

Finding time to read

I’ve been setting Goodreads reading goals since they began, and the first time I actually reached that goal was 2017. I always set my goal for 20 books, a nice round number and one that seems easily achievable, and last year it was the perfect number. This year I aimed for 24, an improvement without

My Rating System

I’ve seen a lot of discussion online where people go into detail about what exactly each of the star ratings on Goodreads means to them, and I find it really interesting, because “three stars” gives you a general idea of enjoyment but it doesn’t tell you what those three stars are for and where the

Hello!

I have read more books this year than I can remember reading since I was a kid. By 31st December, the total should be 31. It’s not a vast number in comparison to a lot of avid readers, but it’s 11 more than I read last year and 7 more than I set for my