Insightful and Lovely: A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
My favourite read this January was A Room With A View by E.M. Forster. It was one of those books that had been on my TBR for ages but I never actually sat down to read. (I still didn’t, to be fair. I...
View Article7 Alternative Journaling Formats To Try
You may have noticed that one notebook is missing from my list of ten notebooks I’m currently using: a journal (my bullet journal only functions as a planner). I’ve been struggling to keep one...
View ArticleTalking Pages | How I Fell in Love with Prufrock
It’s no secret that I love “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot. I quote it far too often (though fortunately mostly to myself) and some time ago I wrote a blogpost where I tried to...
View ArticleFavourite Blog Posts of February
Hey all, Lately I’ve seen quite a few people share their favourites of the blog posts they read that month, and I think it’s a brilliant idea. Book reviews Simone’s Thoughts on The Underground Railroad...
View ArticleCarol Ann Duffy’s Unattainable Bees
I have probably spent about a year reading Carol Ann Duffy’s The Bees. I absolutely adored her poetry collection Rapture so I bought this one to explore more of her work. Unfortunately, it left me...
View ArticleAnnual Austen Binge & Rearranging My Top 3
** Contains spoilers for most Austen novels ** (Do I still have to warn you when a book is 200 years old?) It is one of our family traditions to love Jane Austen. With a grandfather who has re-read...
View ArticlePoem | Where My Books Go by W.B. Yeats
Some poems I enjoy because there is something inherently ‘clever’ about the way they are constructed, others because the feeling they evoke is so powerful and wonderful. “Where My Books Go” is one of...
View ArticleBook | Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
“Straight people should have to come out too. The more awkward it is, the better.” Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is — and what he’s looking for. But when one of his emails to the...
View Article20 Books I Will Always Recommend – A Peek In My Personal Library
I love lending books to people. It makes me very excited to share books I enjoyed with other people and even more excited to pick out a specific book I think they’ll like. One of my friends has been...
View ArticleBook Tag | Are You Ready for Sweater Weather?
ABSOLUTELY! I love sweater weather! I saw this tag on The Bookish Chick and it seems right up my street, so here we go! 1. Hot Chocolate: What is your comfort book? I bought Finding Collin Firth by Mia...
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8 Tips For Reading More Books
This post is for my friend Lisette who commented ‘how?!’ on my completed Goodreads challenge in July. It took some time to finish this post, soz. There are quite a few guides to help you read more out...
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My Favourite Blog Posts of October!
I’m reinstating my monthly list of great blog posts because I really enjoy going through the posts I’ve read an highlighting a few favourites. More often than not I read a good blog post, think ‘ahh,...
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Poetry | doom rolled in glitter by leena norms
This is a zine by Leena Norms, who (among other things) gives very good book recommendations & life advice on YouTube. I’d never read a zine before, but I love me some good poetry and the concept...
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami | Book Review
This is a spoiler-free (or at least spoiler-light) review of this book. If you’ve already read it, perhaps you’ll enjoy a discussion about its ending (look out for my second post of today). I can’t...
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The Ending of Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland | Spoilers
WARNING. This post contains spoilers. If you want to read a spoiler free review of the book click here. If you’ve already read the book and you’re up for a discussion about its ending, carry on— I’m...
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Bookending Winter 2019 Announcement!
It’s almost time for the Bookending Winter event! Fellow bookbloggers Sam @ Fictionally Sam and Clo @ Cuppa Clo organize Bookend Events each season to bring the book blogging community closer together...
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Poem | Tired by Langston Hughes
“Well that’s depressing,” said my boyfriend as I showed him this journal page. And I can see why: regarding life as one big wait is awful. Plus, if we view the poem in an autobiographical light, we...
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My Favourite Blog Posts of November!
Another month has flown by (seriously, we had our first frost here in The Netherlands but I still haven’t wrapped my head around summer being over) so it’s time for my monthly list of blog posts I...
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5 Books To Get You Into The Winter Spirit
Let’s be honest, winter can be a bit shit. It’s cold, dark, the trees are bare and everything is a bit depressing. Fortunately it also has its upsides: think warm jumpers, cups of tea, cosy blankets…...
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Joy Of Reading Book Tag
Happy almost-Christmas everyone! I wasn’t tagged in this tag, but I found it on The Brunette Bookworm Blog and it was originally created by Sam from Sam’s Nonsense on YouTube. 1. Anticipation: The...
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