My Spring TBR

There’s this feature hosted over at The Artsy Reader Girl called Top Ten Tuesday where by a prompt is posted every Tuesday to blog about and I think it’s excellent and I take part in it VERY SPORADICALLY (because actually I’m a little bit rubbish). Anyhow, the prompt this week is Top Ten Books on My Spring TBR and I thought YES, I have a spring TBR and I am in need of blog inspiration and I’M GETTING INVOLVED.

I don’t have a particular reading mojo for the spring (I don’t have a reading mojo at all right now HELP ME), it’s not like winter, or summer when there are books I yearn to re-read or genres I feel weirdly drawn to, but I do, as it happens have a small list of books that I would like to read before my birthday at the end of April and this is that list.

Things That I Have Seen and Liked (Bookish Edition)

I am totally in a reading slump guys and it sucks. Mostly it’s because I am currently a little bit stressed which means my concentration is shot to pieces so I’m pretty much just collapsing onto my sofa and watching stuff on tv that I don’t have to think about, like Brothers and Sisters which I think I’ve watched 5 times through already. I don’t even care that I practically know it off by heart – I just love those Walkers so hard.

Anyhow, a reading slump is what I am in and I hate it. I hate not being in the right headspace to pick up a book because reading is my thing and I’m just reals sad about the whole situation. It’s also bugging me because I have done such good blogging this year and that’s tapered off because reading slump and so basically I’m lining up a few posts that don’t actually need me to read anything because I NEED TO KEEP THIS THING MOVING. So you know, there might be a couple of posts that are less bookish and more life-ish  (#notaword) – also please keep your fingers crossed that this is just a temporary glitch because I think my TBR might kill me otherwise. Gulp.

Review: The Smiling Man

YES THIS BOOK.

You may remember, if you’ve been hanging round these parts a while, that I read the debut novel, Sirens,by Joseph Knox last year and I loved it so I have been ridiculously excited to get stuck into the second in his Aiden Waits series, The Smiling Man.

Excited, and a little nervous; you know how it is, that hint of trepidation when you read something by somebody new and you love it and you’re a little scared in case what if the next thing they write *gasp* just isn’t as good. Although, I kind of knew it would be, it was kind of obvious from reading Sirens that it wasn’t some kind of fluke because people don’t write like that by accident you know, it’s a talent, but still, there’s still the teeny little niggle of fear because what if.

WHAT IF.

Quick February Wrap Up

For a short month I don’t mind telling you that February has felt kind of long.

Quickfire Reviews

Quickfire Reviews is a thing I do very sporadically when there are books to talk about that I should have reviewed but haven’t. Sometimes I didn’t like these books enough to want to review them; sometimes I loved them but time got away from me; and sometimes, less is just more. Also it’s something a bit different which is what I am all about this year – being more than just review after review.

So here we have it, grab a KitKat and settle down.

On Beauty. Take Two.

Yesterday morning whilst I sat on the sofa drinking coffee in his hoody, my main squeeze wandered around the house in jeans and bare feet and I realised, from nowhere, that he had never looked more perfect to me. I don't even like feet. 

It was weird, how just that sight of him, bare footed and laughing in the living room, warming his feet over the roaring flames of the fire, gave me the absolute warm fuzzies. It was nothing special, and certainly nothing intimate and yet there was a strange sort of intimacy, a sort of vulnerability almost that I don’t know quite how to explain. 

Review: How Do You Like Me Now?

How Do You Like Me Now

Review: Dear Mrs Bird

Dear Mrs Bird

This book is a delight.

Things That I Have Seen and Liked: Glasses

I’ve been a glasses wearer since I was at school. I never liked it much – glasses helped me to see, but other than that they were an inconvenience: they got wet when it rained and steamed up went from outside to in and because I didn’t have prescription sunnies for years, I had the annoying thing where where I either had to squint in the sun or be the dick wearing sunglasses in the house or carry around spare specs. I was never a fan.

Review: I Am Thunder

I am Thunder 

Keep an eye out for this one guys, because I think it maybe possibly might just go places.