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WEEKEND BLITZ; review; the big event
The Big Event by Anne John-Ligali Constance Jeffries is excited when she gets the chance to meet up with virtual friends at a get-together in a London hotel. She’s been tweeting and messaging her lovely friends for years and feels they must be just as excited to finally meet her in person too. Or so she hopes. A short story about the importance of ‘real’ friendships and how it’s the little things that matter the most. Now on Amazon. ABOUT THE AUTHOR :- Anne John-Ligali is a writer and the founder of Books and Authors UK, a popular website featuring author interviews and book reviews. She loves all things books:…
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review; dreamless
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini Can true love be forgotten? As the only scion who can descend into the Underworld, Helen Hamilton has been given a nearly impossible task. By night she wanders through Hades, trying to stop the endless cycle of revenge that has cursed her family. By day she struggles to overcome the fatigue that is rapidly eroding her sanity. Without Lucas by her side, Helen is not sure she has the strength to go on. Just as Helen is pushed to her breaking point, a mysterious new Scion comes to her rescue. Funny and brave, Orion shields her from the dangers of the Underworld. But time is running…
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instant to-read; the covers edition
I have never understood the phrase “Never judge a book by its’ cover”. I mean, sure, metaphorically, yeah. The prettiest person can hide the ugliest of souls and hearts. But when it comes to actual books? Sue me, I’m a shallow person. I’m going to pick up the pretty books.* *I literally pick them up off the shelf. Then I read the synopsis and make a decision. But the cover is the initial attraction, so I stand by my point. There have been a number of books over the years that I have read, or put on my TBR, just because of their cover. Some of them have been great.…
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unboxing; blu’s bookish bag, january 2018
Bear with me please, I’ve never done one of these before. Unboxings have always fascinated me – and made me a little bit jealous. Because I’ve never been able to get over the almost exorbitant shipping prices to get bookish merch and boxes all the way over to Malaysia, I rarely buy things beyond books! And then. And then. This happened. I have always adored the designs on Blu Bear Bazaar. I treated myself to bookmarks from the store once, and bought my best friend a mug for her birthday. When I heard Molly was starting a box? Or rather, a bag? I gave in to the temptation and pre-ordered…
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recipe; baked couscous
When I was planning out my tentative blogging schedule for this year, I held a poll over on Twitter on whether or not to start posting recipes as well. The response was a positive one – some of my friends complain about me posting pictures on Instagram and making them hungry? I mean, isn’t that what good friends do? – so today we have the first of my recipes, adapted from various places to fit my family’s dietary needs! I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned it online, but my family is quite strictly vegetarian. Not only do we not eat meat and fish, we don’t consume products containing eggs…
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review; steadfast
Steadfast by Claudia Gray Nadia, Mateo, and Verlaine have saved Captive’s Sound from the dark Sorceress Elizabeth…or so they thought. Despite their best efforts, a crack opened and a new, greater evil seeped through. With Mateo as her Steadfast, Nadia’s magic is magnified and she is more powerful than ever. But there is still so much she doesn’t know about the craft, leaving her open and vulnerable to a darker magic… which has begun to call Nadia’s name. Review:
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review; the first kiss hypothesis
The First Kiss Hypothesis by Christina Mandelski Nora Reid believes scientific laws control everything, even love. With her grandparents’ epic first kiss story cemented in her brain, Nora develops a hypothesis she’s determined to prove: for each person in the world, there is exactly one other person, and at first kiss, they’ll experience an immediate and intense reaction. But after four years of zero-reaction kisses, she comes up with a new theory: maybe that pesky crush on her stunningly hot best friend Eli Costas is skewing her results. She needs to get rid of him, and fast. Eli Costas is an injury-prone lacrosse star with a problem—the one chance he…
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;ten things i have used as a bookmark
…besides a bookmark, that is. There’s this post I’ve seen many times – on Tumblr, sometimes on Twitter, and I’ve had a friend send it to me over Whatsapp too, saying I’ve done them all – of unconventional things people have used as bookmarks. I’m pretty sure that post is supposed to be a joke. I’m also pretty sure that my friend is right and I’ve done them all. An old reciept. And when I say old, I mean it’s become faded and gone mostly blank. Ticket stubs. I collect them, mean to put them in a scrapbook, and wind up using them as bookmarks. Technically, scrapbooking? In a way?…
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review; when dimple met rishi
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right? Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him—wherein he’ll have to woo her—he’s totally on board. Because…
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the year of new beginnings;
As I write this, it is the last few days of 2017, and I am excited for 2018. The year promises new things for me – my daughter will turn one, my blog will (hopefully) see more traffic as I post more often, and I will be launching my book-related business! Unfortunately, there has been a bit of a delay on the business front as not only has it been difficult to set up the page on my own, a lot has been going on on the personal front and an unexpected medical related emergency has set me back at least another week. So where I was hoping for a…