Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. Every week a new topic is chosen, and I love answering questions so I'm going to try and post regularly. :)
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Monday, June 26, 2017
[Review] Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall
Pages: 272
Source: Library
Genre: YA {Contemporary}
Violence | Sexual Content | Profanity
Trigger warning: self harm
Book Tunes
My Rating
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| 5/5 stars |
My thoughts
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| US Cover |
My heart is (still) in a frenzy. Under Rose-Tainted Skies was absolutely perfect back when I read it in March, and I could not be more grateful that there is a book like this out in the world. I had been wanting to read this book for a while and had been holding out to buy the US version of the book because I find it to be infinitely superior to the UK edition, so I was able to read this book courtesy of my local library. This one is a must-buy for me as I will certainly want to read this again in the future.
Sunday, June 25, 2017
[Book Tag] Aussie Book Tag!
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The Aussie Book Tag was created by Ngoc @ Happy Comes First. I actually saw this on another Aussie book blog, and I wasn't tagged, but that won't stop me from doing it anyway! I am so glad that Australia has a great book community, it's pretty overwhelming actually! Why, I went to the A.S. King event at Kinokuniya, Sydney a couple of weeks ago and there was a squad of like 10 teenage girls, which was pretty cool. Anyway, I digress. On to the books!!!
To add the challenge I'm going to include Aussie books/authors ONLY.
Saturday, June 24, 2017
[Review] The Fire Horse Girl by Kay Honeyman
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Publication (dd/mm/yyyy): 01/01/2013
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 321
My thoughts
Reading The Fire Horse Girl was a long time coming. Back in 2013 it was placed highly on my wishlist and I knew that I needed to read it. How often do you read about an Asian female protagonist who cross-dresses as a man to escape China in the 1920s? My interest in this book was tied largely with my intense obsession with the Disney hit film Mulan - see: Asian female cross-dressing - but that desire to read it had dulled somewhat when I began to worry about the potential disappointment. What if I didn't like it? Thus why I never picked up my own copy, and I was even about to return this library book back to where it came from when I thought to revisit Goodreads, and luckily for me the reviews I skimmed through were favourable enough that my curiosity was piqued and so the journey began...
Friday, June 23, 2017
Down the TBR Hole #2 + Giveaway
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Down the TBR Hole is a meme/feature hosted by Lia (Lost in a Story). Hopefully this will remind me to read some of these long-lost, woeful books that have been sitting untouched, forgotten on these bookshelves of mine.
Rules
- Go to your goodreads to-read shelf.
- Order on ascending date added.
- Take the first 5 books
- Read the synopses of the books
- Decide: keep it or should it go?
I've added a twist: if there are any books that I do decide to let go, I'm going to host a giveaway. First person who says they want it, gets it! Aussie only. (After one month, I will put them up for donation/sale.)
Let's get started!
Current TBR count: 441
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