Blogmas Day 20: Classic Christmas Cinema Book Tag

Hi everyone!

Welcome to Day 20 of Blogmas! I cannot believe how close it is until Christmas Day – I swear the years fly by faster every single year. Today we have another book tag, and another Christmas themed one! This tag was created by booktuber TwoBookTeens!

Let’s get into it!

ELF:
Choose a book that puts you in the Christmas mood

Misery by Stephen King

Do I realise how questionable this book is as an answer? Yes. Does it say a lot about who I am as a person? Maybe too much. But here we are.

Blogmas Day 19: TTT – Books I Hope Santa Brings/Bookish WishesBlogmas

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I’m back again with Blogmas Day 19, it’s gone so quickly! Today we have a new Top Ten Tuesday! You can find the prompts for each week over at That Artsy Reader Girl so go and check out everyone’s posts over there!

This week’s TTT is talking about books we want Santa to bring us! I haven’t asked for any books other than a FNAF set I will talk about, so I will instead talk about books I am hoping to buy at the start of the year!

Let’s get into it!

Tales from the Pizzaplex by Scott Cawthon, Kelly Parra & Andrea Waggener

This is the only series I asked for this year because as we established – I am HIGHLY in my FNAF era and obsessed with them!!

Blogmas Day 18: It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

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Welcome back to Day 18 of Blogmas! Today we have another weekly book meme that I used to do back in 2016, so why not restart doing it today! The It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? book meme is hosted by The Book Date, so be sure to go and check them out!

We’ll be discussing what I read last week, my current reads and what’s up next on my TBR!

Let’s get into it!

What I Read Last Week:

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

A wonderful 5 star read that I am literally OBSESSED with!!! You can read my review for it that I posted for Blogmas yesterday, here: Book Lovers Review.

Blogmas Day 17: Book Lovers by Emily Henry // Review

Title: Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Rating: ★★★★★

Release: 3rd May 2022

Synopsis: Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books. Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he’s Nora’s work nemesis. Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she’s the one men date before finding their happy-ever-after. To prevent another dating dud, Nora’s sister has persuaded her to swap her city desk for a month’s holiday in Sunshine Falls. It’s a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, handsome doctors or cute bartenders, Nora keeps bumping into…Charlie. She’s no heroine. He’s no hero. So can they take a page out of an entirely different book?

There hasn’t been a single Emily Henry book I haven’t loved, and this just adds to that wonderful list! If anything, it tops it as my all time favourite book of hers, wow.

Blogmas Day 16: Long Way Down (The Graphic Novel) by Jason Reynolds & Danica Novgorodoff // Review

Title: Long Way Down (The Graphic Novel) by Jason Reynolds & Danica Novgorodoff

Rating: ★★★★★

Release: 27th October 2020

Synopsis: After Will’s brother is shot in a gang crime, he knows the next steps. Don’t cry. Don’t snitch. Get revenge. So he gets in the lift with Shawn’s gun, determined to follow The Rules. Only when the lift door opens, Buck walks in, Will’s friend who died years ago. And Dani, who was shot years before that. As more people from his past arrive, Will has to ask himself if he really knows what he’s doing.

A hard hitting written novel transformed into beautifully heartbreaking visuals, this graphic novel takes the source material and not only gives it a life of it’s own, but gives such an important topic even more awareness.

Blogmas Day 15: 2023 Anticipated Releases – Have I Read Them?

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Welcome back to Day 15 of Blogmas! I honestly cannot believe I have posted 15 blog posts this month alone, 2020-2022 me would be shaking in her boots – she’d never see it coming! Today I thought since we are almost halfway through the final month of the year, I’d reflect on the anticipated releases I had at the start of 2023, and whether I’ve read them yet – or even intend to! You can find my plans for reading this year, and daily/weekly updates too on my Instagram under the highlight ‘Reading 2023’ here – Between the Pages Instagram!

Let’s get into it!

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Okay listen, we are not kicking off strong here 👀 I did start this book, and it does still have a bookmark in it – but I completely forgot where I put it for months so I never continued, and now here we are. BUT I will be getting to it as I love Talia Hibbert’s books, so maybe before the end of the year? 👀

Blogmas Day 14: 12 Days of Christmas Tag

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Welcome back to Day 14 of Blogmas! If you’ve followed along the entire time then I can’t thank you enough – we’re almost halfway through!

Today is time for another book tag, this one is created by Ashley at Falling Down the Book Hole! I also recently found out that all the gifts in this song are different birds and like – that’s SO MANY BIRDS.

Anyway, let’s get into it!

The partridge stood alone in the pear tree. What is your favourite standalone?

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

This is my favourite standalone book of all time, I just love every single thing about it. I want to hopefully reread it again next year, because I think I just need my heart broken again.

Blogmas Day 13: Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco // Review

Title: Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco

Rating: ★★★★★

Release: 27th October 2022

Synopsis: Emilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. Emilia doesn’t simply desire his body, she wants his heart and soul—but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her. When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, Emilia and Wrath are drawn to the rival demon court. Damning evidence points to Vittoria as the murderer and she’s quickly declared an enemy of the Seven Circles. Despite her betrayal, Emilia will do anything to solve this new mystery and find out who her sister really is.

Together Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fueled game of deception as they work to stop the unrest that’s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters and the most treacherous foes of all: the Feared.

The final book in the trilogy, and what an absolute MASTERPIECE it is. Kerri Maniscalco truly outdoes herself with this book, from the writing, to the characters, to the way she just rounds out one of the most detailed and well thought out plots I have ever read; it couldn’t be better if it tried.

Blogmas Day 12: TTT – Books On My Winter To-Read List

Hi everyone!

I’m back again with Blogmas Day 12, almost halfway there! Today we have a new Top Ten Tuesday! You can find the prompts for each week over at That Artsy Reader Girl so go and check out everyone’s posts over there!

This week’s TTT is focusing on books that I’m wanting to read during the current winter we are in. I covered this slightly in my Blogmas Day 1 post of my December TBR – but I thought I’d include some of those and a few more for this one as it covers a much longer period!

Let’s get into it!

Happy Place by Emily Henry

I am currently reading this and having a wonderful time! It’s so nice to get into such an easy going rom-com book for a nice wintery day!

Blogmas Day 11: Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco // Review

Title: Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco

Rating: ★★★★★

Release: 5th October 2021

Synopsis: After selling her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, Emilia travels to the Seven Circles with the enigmatic Prince of Wrath, where she’s introduced to a seductive world of vice. She vows to do whatever it takes to avenge her beloved sister, Vittoria… even if that means accepting the hand of the Prince of Pride, the king of demons.

The first rule in the court of the Wicked? Trust no one. With back-stabbing princes, luxurious palaces, mysterious party invitations, and conflicting clues about who really killed her twin, Emilia finds herself more alone than ever before. Can she even trust Wrath, her one-time ally in the mortal world… or is he keeping dangerous secrets about his true nature?

It’s very rare that I spend an entire day thinking about a book, nevermind doing nothing but devouring every single sentence. I had no choice but to do exactly that when reading this book – it is a work of ART.