I've neglected my podcast recommendations lately, some of the recommendations below are a little belated but really that's one of the beauties of podcasts, they're there when you have time to listen to them. All the links below are for PocketCaster which is my preferred podcast app for android and desktop, but all episodes should… Continue reading Podcast Recommendations ~ January 2020
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28. Self confessed geek and complainer. Tea addict, Ravenclaw, Knitter, Bookworm, Developer.
Period. It’s About Bloody Time. ~ Emma Barnett
285 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Audiobook Period. It's About Bloody Time is a book I've heard referenced quite a bit, it does seem bizarre that as something which around half of us experience throughout our lives are seen as a bit of a taboo subject and not something we should be talking about. During… Continue reading Period. It’s About Bloody Time. ~ Emma Barnett
Top Ten Tuesday ~ 21st January 2020
Top Ten Tuesday is a tag hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each Tuesday there's a different topic up for discussion; you can see a full list of topics on her blog. This week it's The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf. I've been trying not to buy too many books recently but some… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday ~ 21st January 2020
The Bookshop Book ~ Jen Campbell
320 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Hardback In a nutshell, The Bookshop Book is a global tour of bookshops and has made me desperate to go and explore which really isn't helping towards my goal of reading through all the unread books I already have! I am quite guilty of defaulting to Amazon for all my book… Continue reading The Bookshop Book ~ Jen Campbell
The Five ~ Hallie Rubenhold
415 pages ~ ★★★★☆ ~ Kindle The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper is a historical non-fiction which is a little different to other Jack the Ripper books I've read as the focus for this is the background and lives of the five women rather than their murders. Split… Continue reading The Five ~ Hallie Rubenhold
WWW Wednesday ~ 15th January 2020
This post runs weekly on Sam's blog but I'm using it as a mid-month check in. What are you currently reading? I'm currently listening to Period. It's About Bloody Time on audiobook and reading Big Girl, Small Town ahead of its release next month, I'm really enjoying both of these. I'm also just finishing Uprooted… Continue reading WWW Wednesday ~ 15th January 2020
The Year of Less ~ Cait Flanders
216 pages ~ ★★★☆☆ ~ Audiobook When Cait announces to her friends that she's thinking of stopping shopping the announcement isn't too out of character, having previously put efforts into getting out of debt and improving her health they're used to her self-improvement experiments; she tracked her progress on her blog and later wrote this… Continue reading The Year of Less ~ Cait Flanders
2020 Anticipated New Releases
Quite often with book releases I feel like I'm living under a bit of a rock, however there are a few books due for release this year that I am quite excited by. Most of these will likely get pre-ordered or I'll request they be purchased via my local library. The Switch ~ The FlatShare… Continue reading 2020 Anticipated New Releases
2020 Audiobook Challenge
Last week I posted about some of my 2020 Reading Goals, I've since found some challenges which line up with a couple of them perfectly courtesy of Silver Button Books, the first being the Audiobook Challenge 2020. You read the full challenge overview and see who else is participating on Caffeinated Book Reviewer… Continue reading 2020 Audiobook Challenge
Beat the Backlist 2020
Another book challenge which aligns perfectly with one of my 2020 Reading Goals of actually reading some of the books on my bookshelf. To try and help tackle the never-ending TBR pile this challenge focuses on reading any non-new releases, anything published in or before 2019 counts; you also need to have started and finished… Continue reading Beat the Backlist 2020
