Oh, I do love a good book about books. They make me feel all warm inside and I can relate to absolutely everything that happens… Perks of being a book lover! When I saw this book on Netgalley, I instantly requested it. It’s just the type of contemporary that I love reading and I had such high expectations!
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I had been waiting to read this book for over a year. I love fantasy, and I love books that feel like re-tellings, but aren’t? If you get what I mean… The Hazel Wood sounded so intriguing with its magical world, and from the synopsis, it kind of gave me a similar feeling to The Raven Boys – a whimsical world just a stretch away from ours. So because of that, and because of my love for The Raven Boys, I was so so so excited… …
I really did try not to buy a lot of books this month. And in my defence, 85% of this book haul are books that I’ve pre-ordered. It’s pretty much only the paperbacks that I’ve bought spontaneously in Waterstones. I did splurge a little bit on a couple of Barnes and Noble exclusive editions, but I couldn’t help myself. They were just tempting me so much!
Anyway, let’s get on with my June book haul! …
Hey, guys and welcome to my June wrap up! I always do them on my YouTube channel but I never considered doing it on my website because I didn’t really know what to include on here apart from what books I’ve read (obviously). But after some deliberation, I came up with a couple of ideas to give you guys some insight as to what’s going on in my life. I only ended up reading 4 books in June which is pretty bad for me, but I’ve been in a massive reading slump, and a lot has been going on, which you will find out about later on in this post.
Anyway, let’s get on with the wrap up! …
Hello, there! AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER MONTHS WORTH OF NEW RELEASES! I’ve pre-ordered most of these books and I can’t wait for them to arrive and then I can read them straight away. Who am I kidding? I’m not going to read them as soon as they arrive… I wish I could though. There’s quite a lot of amazing releases coming out in July!
Disclaimer: all of the release dates shown here are taken from Amazon.co.uk …
Ahhhhh, the final book in the Graceling trilogy. Like the other two, I listened to Bitterblue on audiobook and it was soooooo good! I think it’s safe for me to say, but Bitterblue is my favourite book in the trilogy… Yes, I thought it was even better than Graceling and waaaaayy better than Fire. …
I have just finished writing my Mid Year Freak Out Tag for 2018, and I realised that there were books on some of the lists that were also answers to questions from last years questions. Which got me thinking… Have I actually succeeded in completing some of my goals? Or have I ignored them completely?
Let’s take a look… …
So… I missed my 2-year blog anniversary… AGAIN. I posted my first ever book review on this blog on 9th June 2016 whilst I was in Berlin trying to get over a horrific break up. See my very first post here, and you can see last years mid-year tag here. 2 years later, and I have a successful book blog where I get to share my opinions on all things bookish, and to share my love of books with you all. Because it’s my 2-year anniversary, that also means that IT’S TIME FOR THE MID-YEAR FREAK OUT TAG!
Anyway, let’s get into the tag, shall we? …
Welcome back to ANOTHER Fairy Loot unboxing! If you don’t already know, I now also have a YouTube channel where I have also filmed an unboxing as well as writing this blog post. So, for this month the theme was ‘Rebels in Ballgowns’ and when the theme was announced last month, I had no idea what the book was going to be. That’s what I love about having the book subscription service – I just love being surprised!
Let’s get on with the unboxing… …
I’ve been meaning to create a book inventory for a couple of years now. It was getting to the point where I had so many books that I didn’t know which ones I owned and which ones I WANTED to own. I would buy a book from Amazon/Waterstones, I would get home and find out that I already owned it. OR I WOULDN’T buy a book because I thought that I owned it, get home and find out that I didn’t actually own it. So yeah… a book inventory seemed like the perfect thing for me to make. So I opened up Excel and started creating it. It took A VERY VERY VERY long time and it’s going to be an ongoing project as I acquire new books over the months and years, but at least I’ve laid down the foundations! …