As we all know, I apparently thrive on chaos and upturning my life approximately once a year. This year already brought a switch from studying my Masters full time to part time…and now I have an even bigger change for you all.

For any of you that are screaming at me right now, I hear you, I do. I never go in with the intention of changing something big a few months down the line, but it seems…

Settle in for a long post folks! I’m here today to discuss how the #MakeYourMythTaker readathon — hosted by Myth-Take — went for me! In this post I’ll talk about my initial TBR for the challenge and what I ended up reading, as well as my reading stats for the month overall!

If you’re subscribed to my BookTube, you’ll know that on Tuesday I uploaded my June Wrap-Up and July TBR. If you’re…

For someone who loves books, I’m really bad at discovering new authors and series to read. I tend to buy the same authors and series continuations and very rarely get anything completely new. Which is so bad. Seriously, I apologise to the entire book community.

With the death of George Floyd in May and the following Black Lives Matterprotests, Bookstagram became full of awesome lists…

Hello friends!

I just wanted to write a quick blog post to let you all know that I’ve started a BookTube channel!

If you’re unfamiliar with BookTube, it’s pretty much just book blogging but in video format. I started my channel last month after thinking about it for, honestly, years. As I’ve had so much time to get creative and learn a little about how to edit videos, I thought now was the…

I first read Dreams and Shadows around its original release back in 2013 and was completely hooked. The second time around though, I was disappointed to find it wasn’t as good as I remembered.

The novel tells the story of Colby Stephens, a young boy who gets taken in by a djinn and granted wishes. It also tells the story of Ewan, a young human boy who is swapped at birth for a changeling…

Anyone that knows me knows that I love mythology. Although my primary myth knowledge comes from the Greek and Roman pantheons, I want to broaden that knowledge base and read as much as I can of other pantheons.

The Silence of the Girls is not the first retelling of Greek myth I have read, and it certainly won’t be the last. However, the punch I was expecting from this novel never quite arrived.

Yesterday I finished one of the most anticipated YA releases of 2020: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. This review contains spoilers from the beginning so look away now if you are yet to read the book. You have been warned.

The book is a prequel to The Hunger Games series, and follows President Coriolanus Snow in his youth. It tracks his time as a Mentor to District 12…

Anyone that knows me probably knows how painfully self-conscious I can be. I’ve struggled with confidence issues for years, having never truly felt happy in my body or my personality.

Frankly, I’m bored of it. I’m tired of looking at myself some days and not liking what I see. I’m tired of not doing things because I’m scared of what people will think of me. I want to live for me, to enjoy who I…

Are we surprised? I have made yet another decision that changes my current path of life. I never said I like to make things easy for myself…

In October 2019, I was lucky enough to get a temporary Christmas contract at one of my favourite shops. It was always meant to end at the end of December, but, oh look — hope! They advertised for a permanent part-time position so, naturally, I applied.

The…

As a massive bookworm, I am lucky enough to always get books for Christmas. I thought I’d share those I received this year!

Star Power by Vanessa Montgomery

This was given to me as a Secret Santa gift, and was expertly chosen if I do say so! It’s all about learning to read your birth chart and understanding the horoscope. I’m not sure how much I believe in astrology, but it certainly captivates…

Spinning Silver is the first book I have read by Naomi Novik, and although I wasn’t blown away, I still really enjoyed the read.

The book follows the events of multiple characters as their fates intertwine. We begin with Miryem, the daughter of a moneylender, who decides to take up her father’s business due to his reluctance to collect debts, despite their ever-worsening poverty. She soon draw…

As is what appears to be an annual tradition, I thought I’d give you an update on my next steps, education-wise.

I graduated in July this year with an undergraduate degree in English. We all know my time at university wasn’t necessarily the kindest to me, so I was glad to move back home and put those years behind me.

Actually graduating, though, was a different matter altogether. For the first…

18th February 2026. 7 a.m.

Jemima is halfway to work, trudging her weary limbs along the dusty pavement. The heat is already near-unbearable, already heating up her feet past the point of comfort through what’s left of the soles of her shoes.

Another day full of heartache and despair awaits her. Another day watching the light slowly fade from the eyes of her patients. Nobody knows what the…

2019 is rapidly coming to an end…but I haven’t met my Goodreads goal yet! I’ve got so many titles I want to read flying around my head that I thought I’d better get some structure to my end of year reading plans.

I have plenty of book in my head that need reading before the end of the year. I am lucky enough that some of them are ARCs, and so these must be read in accordance with their…

I have noticed my old desire for blogging and writing rearing its head again over the past few days. And although I’ve had a few ideas for posts, I have nothing interesting to say about them right at this moment.

I think it is very easy to get wrapped up in the idea of doing something — so much so that I usually can’t start it. I don’t know whether it stems from the little perfectionist inside…

I have made what feels like a ridiculous number of mistakes in the past 5 years or so. But the main reason they feel like such big mistakes is because I can look at them from a more experienced point of view.

I often look back on the decisions that have led me to where I am. Namely the choices I made in school: A Levels, University, degree choice etc. If I went back, knowing everything I know…