Audio Review: West Cork

West Cork performed by Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde Goodreads Available on Audible, currently free for members, West Cork discusses the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier and the investigation into the prime suspect, Ian Bailey. West Cork is a compelling look into the case. It's well researched and includes all perspectives on the case, from the …

A Recent Book Haul

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by That Artsy Reader Girl (originally The Broke and the Bookish). For information on how to participate and the topics of each week, click the link! This week's TTT prompt is most recent additions to my bookshelf, which is honestly perfect for me, since I've bought about 500 books since …

Book Review: Lowborn by Kerry Hudson

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson Goodreads, Wordery Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising. Always on the move with her single mother, Kerry attended nine primary schools and five …

2020 Finishing the Series Reading Challenge

This is the only challenge I'm participating in this year that lasts all year, other than the ones I've set myself. Hosted by Celebrity Readers, the aim of the challenge is to finish all of the series on my shelf that I've put off for years. Yay! And there's a rule that you can count ongoing series, …

Booktubers I Loved in 2019

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by That Artsy Reader Girl (originally The Broke and the Bookish). For information on how to participate and the topics of each week, click the link! For Top Ten Tuesday this week, the prompt was Bookish Discoveries.  While I didn't necessarily discover some of these booktubers in 2019, it was definitely a year …

Series I Want to Finish in 2020

I am very much guilty of being a perpetual series starter. And if I'm not starting a series, I'm reading a standalone or a non-fiction book, which means the series I've already started isn't being finished. Therefore I am making it my mission to actually finish things in 2020. These are the series I want to finish, …

Most Anticipated Book Releases Of 2020

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by That Artsy Reader Girl (originally The Broke and the Bookish). For information on how to participate and the topics of each week, click the link! Another year, another anticipated releases post! I did one of these way back in June of 2019 for my '20 for 20' series in …

Favourite Books of 2019

Another year, another 'favourites' post. I'm actually going to be doing a series of these posts. I started with my Worst Reads of 2019 post, there's a scheduled Favourite Graphic Reads post, and there are several more coming up that branch into my interests outside of books, too. It was a pretty good reading year …