Some Changes to the Blog (and Some Reflections on Burn Out)

OK, so this is a pretty uninteresting title, but it's plain English that at least gives an idea of what the post will be about! As it suggests, my blog is going to change a little. I doubt you'll notice much change, but I felt it was worth laying out the change and the reason …

Book Review: WRITTEN IN STARLIGHT by Isabel Ibañez

A fun book with a lot of nature as the enemy

August TBR: The Royal Readathon Sidekicks Edition

It's time for another Royal Readathon, this time inspired by the sidekicks. Hosted by Becca (thebeccafowell) and Liv (Magical book blogger), if you want to find out more about the readathon, click here. Some of these prompts were really hard, so there's been a fair bit of manipulating and letting the prompts cover things vaguely similar! …

Book Review: A RADICAL ACT OF FREE MAGIC by H. G. Parry

A stunning finale

Top Ten Tuesday: December TBR

This December I'm hoping to tackle my TBR by demolishing the big, chunky hardbacks on my shelves.

Book Review: ROYALS by Rachel Hawkins

A light, fun AU with messy royalty and funny hijinks, though the world building is very shaky.

Top 5 Wintry Books

Tomorrow is December so I can finally say that it's almost Christmas! What better way to celebrate the start of the Christmas season than with a post of best Wintry books? All these books give me an icy, snow-blast feel but none of them are Christmas books. They aren't seasonal in the sense of involving …

The TBR; Part Seven

It has been almost half a year, I think, since I last posted a TBR. After everything went a bit chaotic over the summer, and my reading went a little off the rails, I forgot (and gave up) trying to guide my reading But it's time I resumed setting goals and attempting to follow them. …

Bookish Name Tag

What's in a name? Juliet famously asks in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Quite a bit, in fact. My name, Sifa, is Swahili and means praise - but it's so much more than that. It's a nerdy, bookish girl who avoids tea and coffee, loves the colour blue and will babble fantasy, history, science or all …

Top Ten Tuesday: Childhood Favourites

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly mean, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun. This week's prompt was favourite childhood books and the first snag I found was how to define childhood. When do you stop being a child, and become an adult? Is there a clear point? I've decided …