Book Your Summer – Literally

This summer, escape through fiction! Travelling anywhere at the minute is not exactly the easiest, or even advisable, but with book sales coming up (and with enough searching, a bargain can always be found) why not pick up a new book to journey with to another time, place, or even memory. As Waterstones called it,

2019 reading summary

It’s the end of the year and time again to summarize my reading from the year. I have to say I had hefty plans at the start of the year and it’s interesting to look back on everything I picked up and managed to get through. For many years now, I’ve set myself a reading

Normal People by Sally Rooney

This book was everywhere towards the end of 2018. Before this, Conversations with Friends had come out, but there was much more publicity surrounding this one. I believe it won some awards, and unlike the previous, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Reviews on Goodreads were mixed, some loved it, some hated it, and

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Before Normal People, there were Conversations with Friends, and reading about all these conversations, you learn about people, relationships, and even yourself.