Category: Reading
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Snowpiercer
The world is a frozen, post-apocalyptic wasteland, with the only surviving humans left perpetually circling the globe aboard the luxury train, Snowpiercer, 1001 cars long… The premise The train’s constant movement provides the energy required to keep her passengers alive and safe from the inhospitable conditions outside. However, the ceaseless forward motion also means the […]
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Heartstopper TV series on Netflix
Charming, sweet, and utterly heart-warming, the TV adaptation of Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper was released on Netflix this weekend. With 8 episodes of around 30 minutes each, the show is a very bingeable 4 hours of TV – perfect for snuggling up on the couch and getting cosy with a hot chocolate and a few biscuits. […]
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The Song of Achilles
When a book you’ve been recommended a zillion times gets a special 10th anniversary edition, you know it’s well past time. I absolutely adored this story. Madeline Miller’s adaptation of Homer’s Iliad follows the romantic relationship of Patroclus, the exiled prince, and Achilles, the son of a king and a sea goddess, from before their […]
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Ownvoices Achillean Books
Reads Rainbow have pulled together a fantastic list of 100+ new releases coming out in the first half of 2022 🏳️🌈👬 I was already keeping my eye out for a few of these to add to my reading pile, and this list has added a bunch more! Check them out: Book Releases: Ownvoices Achillean Books […]
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2021 reading recap (with charts!)
A few weeks ago I summarised my year of writing, so today I’m turning things around and looking at the books I read in 2021! I’m looking at total books read, moods, pace, length, and genre. The headlines I shifted from Goodreads+spreadsheets to The StoryGraph for analysing my reading. 69 titles read in total (or […]
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My holiday reading and summer snaps
While my beta readers ripped one book to shreds and I left another to stew away quietly, I took a break! It was so nice to catch up with friends and family as we’d been separated from them for months. We relaxed, read books, ate, swam at the beach (it’s our summer here in Aotearoa New Zealand!), sampled […]
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Happy Jólabókaflóðið!
The Christmas book flood is an Icelandic tradition of gifting newly published books on Christmas Eve, to be read into the night while drinking hot chocolate. The wonderful Robyn Sarty coordinated a remote, international version of this tradition for fellow Bestseller Experiment podcast listeners this year. As you can see, mine is all ready to […]
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MMerry Christmas – MM romance group sale
I’ve hooked up with these fellow indie authors to promote each other’s books for Day 19 of my bookish Advent calendar. They’ve all got man-on-man action, some sweet and funny, some more sexy and steamy. Make sure you check them out and see if anything takes your fancy! Promotion ends Christmas Day 2021.
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Picking up the Groceries – free flash fiction
This story grew from a writing exercise designed to encourage the use of all the senses in your writing and to avoid leaning too heavily on one sense or another. We had to go for a walk and take a photo then describe that scene solely from the perspective of each sense: sight, sound, touch, […]
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