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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme for sharing our news, and plans for the next week, hosted by the wonderful Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

Hello my bookish narwhal friends!
I'm really very nearly done with the new website - which is why the blog has been so quiet this week!
But in more important news, my mum got a new kitten yesterday! Feast your eyes on the beauty that is this little cuddle bug. (Her name is Evie.)

She has adopted me as her human (or as my mum would put it I've "stolen her kitten." Technically, yes, maybe, but I couldn't help it!)

 When I started typing this, she was asleep. On my foot.
Right now, however...

On the Blog Recently

✦#AZdiverse readathon. Read diverse! + giveaway!
You have until Tuesday night to take part in the readathon, but the giveaway will be open for a few more days after that. Go on over and give us a diverse recommendation even if you don't have the time to take part!

ARC panic!

I've got too many, at the moment, so... want to help me decide which ones to read first? I'm loving polls (because of Ely and Val's Make Me Read It Readathon which is going to be awesome!) so here. Help a girl out, please! ;)


Up Next Week

✦ A review of And I Darken by Kiersten White

How was your week? Did you read anything amazing? (I finally read Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda and absolutely loved it!)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme for sharing our news, and plans for the next week, hosted by the wonderful Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

Hello my lovely little narwhal friends!

I'm currently in London (and heading to Cambridge later today to meet the BFF) so it's basically a mini holiday. I've been a bit quiet this week because politics has been... interesting. And it's unavoidable of course, but there's so much negativity around and it's just not very nice you know? Anyway, although there's not enough gin in England to drown our sorrows, we managed a few drinks last night.

I've also been blogging on my tablet which works well enough but doesn't seem willing to post most images at the moment. This is why I'm changing my blogging platform soonish!

On the Blog Recently

✦ Bookish Confessions: I can't get rid of books!
Let us know whether you're able to part with your books or not :)

Reviews


Up Next Week

✦ A review of And I Darken by Kiersten White
✦ A new Readathon focusing on diverse books for the end of June by Ezrah and myself!

We're getting to ready to host a readathon, so take a look around and find something with a diverse theme to read! I'll post an announcement about it tomorrow, and will include my own picks for the weeklong readathon!

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme for sharing our news, and plans for the next week, hosted by the wonderful Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

Hello my lovelies!

My little sister is currently visiting, and her baby - my little nephew whom we call Simba - is now two weeks (and a few days) old. It's so relaxing to just hold a sleeping baby for an hour. It's been especially nice since my health has been a bit worse and I had a panic attack a few days ago. At least babies always make us happy, right?



Cool Stuff in the Blogosphere

✦ Kristen @ Metaphors and Moonlight writes about why negative reads can be a positive thing - I've been linking this to everyone, it's a wonderful discussion!
✦ You can still get involved with The Make Me Read It Readathon by Ely @ Tea and Titles and Val @ the Innocent Smiley. It takes place in July and it's going to be really fun!
Liselle @ the Lunch-Time Librarian has a wonderful discussion post up about writing diverse as a person of colour.

On the Blog Recently

✦ Bookish Confessions: I'm too old for YA?!
Discussion on that Guardian article and YA
✦ The Blog Squad Tag
Who I need with me if the zombie apocalypse actually arrives...
✦ Conversations: Real life vs Online friendships

Reviews

 

Up Next Week

✦ A review of the Sway by Ruby Knight
✦ A review of Dahlia Adler's Right of Last Will and Testament
✦  A Bookish Confessions post
✦ A new Readathon focusing on diverse books for the end of June by Ezrah and myself!

How are you? Would you be up for doing some diverse reading in honour of Pride month, and inspired by the #buydiversebooks giveaway that happened during the week?
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme for sharing our news, and plans for the next week, hosted by the wonderful Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

Hello my lovelies!



I've had an interesting week, kind of. My health is... whatever it is, so that sucks, but my godson and his sister (ages 9 and 6) visited me for three days in the middle of the week. It was so nice to do stuff together and be busy but... every time I forget how much energy children have. I got about five hours of sleep every night they were here and when they left I went to bed at seven and slept twelve hours. I guess it's kind of good though because my sleeping habits are rubbish? I really did have a lot of fun! But when they're both teenagers and want to sleep in until noon I am so going to wake them up at 7am complaining that the day's wasting away. ;)


Cool Stuff in the Blogosphere

✦ Trisha Jenn's writing prompt for this week was a really good one! I'm super inspired to write - you should check out her writing prompts too!
✦ The Make Me Read It Readathon by Ely @ Tea and Titles and Val @ the Innocent Smiley will take place in July. This is the perfect time to sign up! Or at least you can go around their blogs to vote on their TBRs ;)

On the Blog Recently

✦ Bookish Confessions: I Can't DNF (teach me your ways)!
Feel free to share your magical DNF abilities (..or inabilities) with us
✦ Make Me Read It Readathon Sign-ups!
If you have a moment I would love it if you could give me a hand and vote for a few books you think I should read!
✦ If you'd like to, you can still join us on last week's Conversations topic about how you juggle real life duties and blogging. The sign-up is here on my blog instead of Geraldine's just this once.

Reviews


Up Next Week

✦ A review of Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet by Charlie N. Holmberg
✦  A Bookish Confessions post
✦ The Blog Squad Tag! ;)

How are you? What's new in your life? Let me know!
Also - if you're going to take part in the Make Me Read It readathon please let me know so I'll be on the lookout for your TBR post!
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme for sharing our news, and plans for the next week, hosted by the wonderful Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

Hello my lovely internet narwhals!

This is my first Sunday Post in a month!! It feels like forever. Let me sum up... I've been reading, writing, annnnd yep. Reading and writing. That's mostly it.
My little sister had her baby this week, and she just got home from the hospital on Friday so that's really exciting. He's tiniest baby boy, and he's adorable!
Other than that, I don't have a lot going on. I'm mostly just trying to figure out what I'm going to do regarding jobs and everything come September. Why is the future so scary?!

 Also, something cool happened the other day!
the lovely Emily @ Paperback Princess gave me a shoutout on her blog. She said my posts are hilarious! That's maybe one of my favourite compliments ever. I've always wanted to be funny!


On the Blog Recently

The Camp NaNoWriMo post. Spoiler alert: editing is hard.
✦ Conversations: "Requirements" for Blogs I Follow
What do you like in book blogs you follow?
✦ Inspired Indies: Intisar Khanani & Why I'm a Bit Obsessed
That's rather self-explanatory, I think?
✦ #YALC Excitement & My May Top Five Books
YALC is happening in London - on my birthday weekend!

Reviews

  

Up Next Week

✦ A TBR post - because mine is out of control
✦ A review of Julia Vanishes by Catherine Egan
✦  A Bookish Confessions post
How was your week (/month...)? Does it feel like summer? Are good things happening to you? Let me know!
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme for sharing our news, and plans for the next week, hosted by the wonderful Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

Hello my lovely internet narwhals!

We're finally getting some sun and it feels like summer! On top of that, I just got a ticket home so I'm heading there on Wednesday. You could say I'm pretty excited :)
I'm pretty busy doing my dissertation research now. I've got a meeting again tomorrow (yay!) to go over my bibliography and chapter outline and then I'll be treating my dissertation as a 9-5 job, basically. Is there a better way to spend a summer?

✦ April Top 5 YA Recommendations + ARC challenge updates
I recap ARC April and start up on the May Clean Sweep Challenge
✦ Bookish Confessions: I love YA (too much?)
A discussion post - you're welcome to join in!
✦ Conversations: Reasons to blog
A bit GIF heavy...
✦ BookBuddyAThon TBR!
My TBR for the next week.
✦ The Fourline Trilogy by Pam Brondos
Pretty awesome fantasy trilogy about a student who goes through a portal into another world.
✦ Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
Alternate history where Hitler is still alive in the 1950's.

  


Basically, I got a massive amount of approvals for ARCs in two days and so... yay.
  
  

And I got a few things for my kindle...
  


✦ Review of  A Fierce and Subtle Poison
✦ (Finally) a post about the end of Camp NaNoWriMo
✦ A Bookish Confessions post!

How was your week? Did anything good happen? Let me know!
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme for sharing our news, and plans for the next week, hosted by the wonderful Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

Hello lovelies!

 Things actually happened this week, but not in a good way... My cat passed away and I've been in mourning, but also stressed out because I have a meeting with my dissertation supervisor on Monday (despite it being a bank holiday!). So I've taken this week to slow down and be sad, and now I'm going to get back to everything and kick some academic ass (hopefully).

 I'm also looking forward to catching up with all of you lovelies' blogs. I feel so bad about being kind of unavailable this past week - but I'm here now!

✦ The Progeny by Tosca Lee
Thriller with some supernatural elements.
✦ Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
YA time travel!

  

 

Is anyone else reading the Star-Touched Queen? Let me know!

✦ Review of Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
(And things I meant to have up this past week, for example:)
✦ A post about the end of Camp NaNoWriMo
How was your week? What have I missed around the blogosphere this week? What are you reading?