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the importance of a 3 star read!
I LOVE a 3 star romance book and here's why -
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Last week I finished listening to an audiobook that I started on January 9th – it took me three months to listen to ‘The Name of the Wind’ by Patrick Rothfuss and even though I really enjoyed it, it was 28 hours long and the sequel is 42 hours long and I needed a little break before I jump into that.
So I was browsing the Audible Plus catalogue (because I don’t have anything in my…
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#2024#3 star#book rating#book review#books#reading#romance#romance books#romance reader#romance reading
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April TBR!
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After a very mixed reading month in March, going from spending three weeks finishing ‘A Game of Retribution’ to reading 50% of ‘A Game of Gods’ in one day, I’m going into April with a renewed sense of capability in my ability to read! I’ve stopped being stubborn about reading without the support of an audiobook and I’m ready to be more consistent and finish more books this month!
This…
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#2024#afterlight#audible#book club#book subscription#books#booktok#emily henry#holly jackson#illumicrate#new release#paige layle#reading#tbr
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March Reading Wrap Up!
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I really thought I’d be able to slowly increase how much I’m reading this year, but so far it’s been downhill in terms of numbers of books!
In January I read 5 books, in February I managed 4 (though some of my wrap ups said 5 cos I was really optimistic) and in March I’ve only managed to read 3 books! Granted, when I look at the number of pages read, I’ve read nearly as much as I read in…
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#2024#book blog#book club#book review#books#hades x persephone#march reading#reading#reading wrap up#scarlett st clair#what I read
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I've Not Found A Five Star Book in 2024!
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I like to think of myself as a fairly generous reviewer when it comes to books – I go in open minded, I very rarely don’t finish books (which may not be a good thing, tbh) and I do generally enjoy most of the books I read, but I don’t seem to be having much luck with the books I’ve read this year so far!
I’ve read 10 books so far – which Storygraph is very passive aggressively reminding…
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books on my priority tbr
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Now, as someone who regularly doesn’t read all the books on her monthly tbr’s and has a physical tbr that’s leaning a little too close to 500 (and I’m very aware of it), having yet another kind of ‘tbr’ or pile of books that make me feel a little bit guilty about not reading more seems like a silly idea, right?
Yes, it absolutely does.
(and ‘reading more’ is a silly concept – I can’t…
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#2024#books#books to read#popular books#priority reading#priority tbr#reading#reading list#tbr#to be read
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March TBR!
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I decided last month that I wanted to make my monthly tbr for March slightly differently, but I’ve still ended up with a 9 book tbr… things will be different in April I swear!
The whole point of making a monthly tbr for me was to ensure I was reading my book club picks and making the most of my subscriptions, which at the time were Audible, Kindle Unlimited, Illumicrate and every other…
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#2024#afterlight#books#illumicrate#kindle unlimited#march tbr#reading list#tbr#tbr list#want to read
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February Reading Wrap Up!
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Another month has flown by and I’m desperately trying not to have a crisis about how fast the year is going and how ‘little’ I feel like I’ve achieved in that time, but I have read a few more books so it’s time for another monthly wrap up!
Five On A Treasure Island – Enid Blyton (paperback)
I started off the month by reading a book from my January tbr but it was kind of part of my book…
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ranking my favourite ways to read
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This might sound silly, because reading is reading and the format or edition used to consume that story shouldn’t make a massive difference (and it doesn’t), but as someone who has made books their entire personality, I do have an opinion on which ways I prefer to read.
So I’ve decided to take the four formats that I use – hardback, paperback, ebook, audiobook and combinations of them…
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#2024#all reading is reading#audible#audiobook#books#ebook#ereader#hardback#kindle#kindle unlimited#paperback#reading#reading methods
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where's the best place to listen to audiobooks?
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I started listening to audiobooks when I started having a commute in 2021 – I was spending just short of two hours a day in my car so it made sense to try out another form of reading and it really worked for me. I was getting through about a book a week, which makes total sense when I had at least 10 hours a week listening.
Now I’m not commuting and I don’t have as much time for…
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where to start with getting back into reading!
3 tips for getting back into reading!
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I know for a lot of people, reading was something they stopped doing at school – reading time was compulsory, studying books destroys any enjoyment and making time for reading in adult life can be super hard.
But as the new year fades and any resolutions of ‘spending less time on my phone’ or ‘reading every night before bed’ lose all initiative, I thought I’d share some tips I came up…
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#2024#blind date with a book#book blog#book recommendations#book recs#books#derek landy#reading#reading tips#skulduggery pleasant#stranger things#suspicious minds
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January Reading Wrap Up
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Usually I start all my monthly based posts with a comment about how I can’t believe another month has gone by (but I’ll save my feelings about how I feel I’ve already ‘wasted’ a month of the year for a more existential post…), but this month I’m more baffled by what an awful start to my reading year I’ve had!
I managed to read 5 books (not the awful bit), only 3 of them were from the…
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#2024#book review#books#books i&039;ve read#monthly reading#monthly reading wrap up#reading#reading wrap up#tbr#wrap up
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February TBR 📚
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I really try not to start every monthly tbr post with ‘omg I can’t believe another month has gone by’ but that is genuinely how I’m feeling because January is meant to be the super slow month but we’re already basically in February!!
With my January TBR I absolutely had the BEST intentions – as of writing, I’ve read 2 out of the 10 books on that list. Am I hoping to get through two,…
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#2024#audible#books#ebooks#february tbr#kindle unlimited#monthly tbr#new books#new release#reading#reading list#tbr#to be read
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24 books for 2024
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Arguably, it’s too far from the beginning of the year to be making a post like this, but in my defence I made my 24 in 2024 list in about November, so that was way too early! 😂 (and I posted the list on my YouTube channel when I was doing vlogmas so… if you average it out, I’m bang on time)
This is a concept that I only saw for the first time last year – people were choosing 23 books…
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books I got for Christmas 📚🎄
is it too late for a Christmas present based post? probably, but here are the books I got for Christmas!
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Is it too late to still be talking about Christmas? Probably, but I wanted to do a little wrap up of all the new books I got to add to my collection before the New Year rolled over! I was very lucky to have received lots of book gifts so I wanted to share them.
From my husband, I received a beautiful box set of Sarah J Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses (so far) – the ACOTAR series has…
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#2024#a court of thorns and roses#acotar#books#christmas gifts#gifted books#new books#sarah j maas#what i got for christmas
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January TBR!
can I usually read 9 books in a month? No. Will that stop me from setting unachievable tbrs? Also no!
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Brand new year, brand new monthly TBR! I’ve been making what I call a functional TBR (not because I think anyone else’s TBR isn’t functional, but mine has a function therefore…) since about September last year and I only completed it in my first month because I don’t read fast enough to read as many books as I assign myself, but is that going to stop me? Absolutely not.
So what makes my…
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my 2024 goals ✨
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How another year has flown by so quickly is honestly baffling to me – I almost feel like my feet have been swept out from under me because I genuinely can’t believe it’s gone so quickly!
I don’t normally set mantras or affirmations for the year, but I’m definitely going to embrace ‘enjoy the process’ as my line for 2024 – I feel like I’ve spent a lot of time floundering, whether that be…
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#2023#2023 goals#books#career#crafting#creativity#enjoy the process#goals#lifestyle#new year new me#new years resolutions#organisation#travel
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why I'm making YouTube videos again
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When I planned to write this blog post, I thought it might be some profound look into finding myself ten years on from when I first uploaded to my YouTube channel and I’d draw some sort of pretentious conclusion as to how a decade on I’ve decided to go back to where I started.
But the short answer (which I probably shouldn’t be saying so close to the top of this post…) is that I like…
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