My first non-fiction of the year - and the first autobiography that I have read in a hot minute, and I could not have chosen a better one to read. I have always known Trevor Noah as the comedian who was from South Africa and told funny stories about his childhood. This still remains the… Continue reading Book Review #18: Born a Crime
Thanks to Waterstones early this year posting this cover resembling an outfit from an awards ceremony, I discovered the existence of The Last Unicorn. Deemed as a modern fantasy classic, Peter S. Beagle has created a fairytale world discussing themes of humanity and humility. My first exposure to this story was through the animated adaptation… Continue reading Book Review #17: The Last Unicorn
Welcome to the monthly post where I give myself unrealistic goals and expectations that will probably lead me to not achieving them! I am your host: the unreliable reader and let us get moving... So, last month I had set myself a goal of reading 8 books. I managed to read 4 books last month,… Continue reading May Monthly Hopefuls
Ok so I am only 3 days late this time...a massive improvement to posting my wrap up almost 2 weeks into April. slowly getting there! Wrap up time So over the course of AprilI ended up reading a total of 4 books: The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut… Continue reading April Monthly Wrap up and Stats
The book club pick for this month was The Institute by Stephen King. Now, Stephen King has been a long time favourite author of mine. I remember when I was in my early teens and taking a copy of his book to the beach with me to read whilst on holiday. Last year, one of… Continue reading Book Review #16: The Institute
Tress of the Emerald Sea, even saying the name sounds fantastical, cozy, and just like a novel I know I wanted to pick up! I have never read a Brandon Sanderson novel before, and I heard so many good things about this novel that I knew that I needed to pick it up. When I… Continue reading Book Review #15: Tress of the Emerald Sea
Just like The Importance of being Earnest, this book has spent a while on my TBR. It first appeared 77 months ago on my physical TBR as preparation for my A-Level project wehre I had to pick a book to write an essay on. I never got round to reading this one as I chose… Continue reading Book Review #14: Slaughterhouse 5
I have seen a few videos on BookTube of people predicting their potential five star reads and reacting to them after reading them. It is always a fun concept to watch and I thought why not do it myself! Firstly though, I think it may be a good idea to see what constitute as a… Continue reading My 5 star predictions
This has got to be one of the books that has been lounging on my TBR for the longest time! I think I calculated and it has spent 93 months on my physical TBR pile! Shocking! I decided that I wanted to read it as I was looking for relatively short books/plays to read over… Continue reading Book Review #13: The Importance of being Earnest
Welcome to the monthly post where I give myself unrealistic goals and expectations that will probably lead me to not achieving them! I am your host: the unreliable reader and let us get moving... So, last year I had set myself a goal of reading 8 books. I managed to read 4 books last month,… Continue reading April Monthly Hopefuls
The Little Sunflower Library 