Tag: Frances Hardinge

Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I’d Love a New Book From

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Good evening all and welcome to another Tuesday.. This week's topic to which I must turn my thoughts is authors who I'd like more from.... the easy route here, as a reader who loves the classics, would be to go down that route! Who wouldn't want to see Jane Austen's take on social media? Or Mary Shelley's imagination spliced with our AI technologies! Dickens' response to the cost-of-living crises... It is quite scary to imagine how similar some of our concerns are to theirs, how little the world has progressed in some ways. But let us turn our thoughts to contemporary writers instead, those whose books I love but from whom I have heard very little recently. Of course, the fact that I have not been aware of them may not mean that they have stopped writing; it may reflect more on my not being up to date!

Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish People I’d Like To Meet

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This is a nice whimsical topic: the bookish people I'd love to meet... but there are so many of them! Authors we could have to a dinner party, or meet at a book festival; characters who might be able to step from the page like Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series, bloggers and reviewers... Let's think...

Top Five Saturday: Young Adult

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The Top 5 series is back! Top Five Saturday is a meme hosted by Devouring Books in which the bookish community discover and share books that all have a common theme. Previously, the meme has focused on a range of different characters (witches and werewolves), genres (thrillers, detectives and re-tellings) and thoughts about the industry and life… Continue reading Top Five Saturday: Young Adult

Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I Have Read Most Books By

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This is an interesting and lovely idea for a list: the old favourites, the familiar friends, the comfort of a warm hug.

Top Five Saturday: Coming of Age Stories

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The Top 5 series is back! Top Five Saturday is a meme hosted by Devouring Books to discover and share books that all have a common theme. Previously on the blog I have focused on witches, werewolves, thrillers, faeries, fairy tale re-tellings, high fantasy and many more. I am going to try and bring this series back for… Continue reading Top Five Saturday: Coming of Age Stories

Top Five Saturday: Books Set On The Sea

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The Top 5 series is back! Top Five Saturday is a meme hosted by Devouring Books to discover and share books that all have a common theme. Previously on the blog I have focused on witches, werewolves, thrillers, faeries, fairy tale re-tellings, high fantasy and many more. I am going to try and bring this series back for… Continue reading Top Five Saturday: Books Set On The Sea

Top Five Saturday: Books About Plants and Flowers

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The Top 5 series is back! Top Five Saturday is a meme hosted by Devouring Books to discover and share books that all have a common theme. Previously on the blog I have focused on witches, werewolves, thrillers, faeries, fairy tale re-tellings, high fantasy and many more. I am going to try and bring this series back for… Continue reading Top Five Saturday: Books About Plants and Flowers

Behind the Blogger Tag

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Hey everyone! I am Michael and today, I have been nominated to do the Behind The Blogger tag. I was tagged to do this by the wonderful Danni at For Books Sake, a fellow British Book Blogger. Thank you for tagging me and it feels humbling and a little weird to be putting things about… Continue reading Behind the Blogger Tag

2019 Book Survey

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Love the idea of this Survey, from Jamie’s End of Year Book Survey and having read a few, thought I'd (perhaps a little belatedly) upload my own. **2019 READING STATS** Number Of Books You Read: 40Number of Re-Reads: 0Genre You Read The Most From: Crime, Fantasy and Literary 1. Best Book You Read In 2019? The… Continue reading 2019 Book Survey

30 Day Book Challenge: Day One!

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Okay, so I came across this at the great Professional Book Nerds site and with an unexpected day off work, I thought I'd start off today. And doing it on my blog rather than Twitter gives me a little more space to ruminate over the prompts which today is Favourite book in a series. Do… Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge: Day One!