First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by @Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? If you want to make your own post, feel free to use or edit the banner above, and follow the rules below: …
If you’re not aware of what First Impression Friday is, it was created by Joe at JW Martin – Storeys of Stories where, every Friday, he talks about his first impressions of his current read. I actually think that I’m going to do this bi-weekly because, at the moment, I don’t think that I’m going to be reading books that quick due to university.
I also think that – where Joe has said that he will just come back to his FIF post and link his reviews – I’m going to come back to the post, and just write if I was wrong or right. So I have my predicted ratings, and then I’m going to write my actual rating and a couple of sentences on what I actually thought. But I will link my full review as well (once it’s written!) …
‘Waiting on Wednesday’ is a meme created by Breaking the Spine where each week we discuss upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. I am looking forward to SO MANY BOOKS, so this weekly meme is a great way for me to share what books I need to get my hands on! …
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish list prompt originally hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The theme for this week is:
September 11: Books on your Autumn TBR
I’ve actually split this post into two sections. Because it’s September, that means that I’m back to university and that also means that I have a lot of reading to do. So the first section is going to be the books that I have to read for university, but the second half will be the 10 books that I will probably end up reading.
This meme was created by Drew @ The Tattooed Book Geek. You pick a song that you really like and share it on Monday! What I love about this weekly meme is that I get to share my love of music with you. I’ll be completely honest, I mainly listen to KPop, but I do listen to a variety of music as well, so feel free to listen to some amazing music with me! …
After writing my discussion on why I think audiobooks count as reading (which is a big debated topic at the moment, for some reason), I thought about all of the audiobooks that I’ve listened to (which is a lot), and I thought that I would write a post recommending some A-MAZ-ING audiobooks to you. I DO mainly listen to fantasy audiobooks, as I love actually knowing how to pronounce the characters’ names and I always feel so much deeper in the fantasy world when I listen to it.
So here are my audiobook recommendations! …
Wicked Like a Wildfire is yet another hyped up YA magical realism book that completely let me down. Yes, I know that I’m starting this review in a negative way, but I just had to get that off of my chest. …
After absolutely LOVING the first book in this series: Heart of Mist, I couldn’t wait to be able to read the second book. However, I had to wait a whole year which wasn’t great, but oh my life, the wait was definitely worth it! I had listened to Heart of Mist on audiobook, so I definitely wanted to carry that on and so I pre-ordered the audiobook for Reign of Mist. I had gotten so used to the narrator and the way that she voiced the different characters, that I couldn’t think of the characters talk any other way.
I am so SICK AND TIRED of seeing this being flung around book Twitter. I am SICK AND TIRED of elitism surrounding reading.
People who say that audiobooks don’t get as reading are elitist, ableist and just idiots. Yes, ok, when I say I’m reading a book in audiobook format, I do say that I’m listening to an audiobook, but it’s still reading. An audiobook is when a person is reading out loud from a book, like… they’re reading the EXACT SAME WORDS that are on the pages in front of them. They could be reading the book out loud for a radio show/podcast, or they could be reading it for a service like Audible or Scribd. …
If you’re not aware of what First Impression Friday is, it was created by Joe at JW Martin – Storeys of Stories where, every Friday, he talks about his first impressions of his current read. I actually think that I’m going to do this bi-weekly because, at the moment, I don’t think that I’m going to be reading books that quick due to university.
I also think that – where Joe has said that he will just come back to his FIF post and link his reviews – I’m going to come back to the post, and just write if I was wrong or right. So I have my predicted ratings, and then I’m going to write my actual rating and a couple of sentences on what I actually thought. But I will link my full review as well (once it’s written!) …