Tag: Reading
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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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Arthur and Gabriel are now on Apple Books
Our boys are getting around this festive season 😳 First it was Kobo, and now it’s Apple Books 🍏📚 These gay romcom novellas are light and fun, and they’re now available worldwide on Apple Books – just in time for Christmas. So, if you’ve got an iPhone or iPad, you can check them out here. […]
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Top 9 fave reads of 2021 + bonus free short story
I read so many great books this year that I couldn’t narrow it down like I did last year (Top 5 fave books of 2020). And two of the entries aren’t even single books, but series! I made a bunch of blog posts throughout the year for some of the books, as linked below. In […]
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Cosy up with a cosy mystery
They’re just what I’ve felt like recently. We’ve all had a bit too much real life lately, so why not? A bit of lighthearted murder, set in a quaint town with an eclectic and entertaining cast of characters. A quirky main character acting as amateur sleuth, and with a slow-burn love interest. A trail of […]
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The Symmetry of Stars
Duelling in full armour one minute and embroidering flowers into a fine coat the next, this is a story of parallels and opposites, destiny and agency, nature and nurture. The Symmetry of Stars by Alex Myers follows two sets of twins, each pair the champions of opposing gods vying for control of the world. From […]
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