Opinion


AI and Books: The Dangerous Future

This post contains some information as well as my opinion on the matter. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is something that isn’t going to be going away. The pandora’s box is open and no one is closing it. AI will be with us forever and we unfortunately have to accept that – […]


What Does ‘Age Appropriate Books’ Mean?

Reading books, and letting your kids read books, is a very personal choice. Children develop at different speeds and have different experiences which influence them. A lot of books for younger readers are classified for certain ages and then up to certain books being ‘adult’ books. But what does it […]



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Book Covers: Are They Misleading?

This post is my thoughts & opinions on what I am seeing. Book covers are a very important part of a book. They look gorgeous on your bookshelf, can be used as marketing tools and (for some of us) are the reason that we buy a book. But one thing […]


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Dark Romance Tropes: Toxic & Dangerous or Okay Fantasy?

Romance is all over Bookstagram and beyond in the past few months. Spicy books have kind of surged back with stores like The Ripped Bodice and others catering to romance readers. But when you think of romance, a lot of the uninitiated think of bodice ripper books, they may think […]



Big Book Stores: The Secret to Keeping Indie Stores Alive?

Recently a fantastic essay came out on BookRiot on “How Should We Feel About Barnes & Nobel Now?” and it has been doing it’s round. If you haven’t given it a read, I highly recommend that you do. The TL;DR is essentially that Barnes & Nobel is coming back and […]


Why Google AdSense Doesn’t Care About Small Websites [A Personal ...

When I started blogging, making money was never my goal. It wasn’t even on my horizon. I was only 13 and I thought blogging would be a cool way to review books I loved and share my love of reading with other people. I knew nothing about websites. But as […]



Help A Friend in Need [Donations Appreciated]

This is slightly unbook related, but very important to me, so I wanted to share around!  A wonderful Instagrammer I follow, Annie (@midsummerchild), recently has gone through a very difficult time. View this post on Instagram A post shared by A͙n͙n͙i͙e͙ 🍂🦔 (@midsummerchild) on Dec 1, 2018 at 11:54am PST […]


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Do NOT Burn Your Books – Donate Them! [A Rant]

This post is all my personal opinion and you don’t need to agree with me at all. I welcome other opinions so please do comment down below! Recently, on Instagram, I saw a post by an individual stating that they absolutely hated their Harry Potter books and because of that […]



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Social Media Influencing Book Covers?

So this recently was brought to my attention by the wonderful @thebibliotheque. She wrote a full length blog post which she goes ham about it all and I highly suggest reading it. BUT, I just had to write something about all of this because it got my feathers all ruffled. […]


To DNF Or Not To DNF a Book? 19

To DNF Or Not To DNF a Book?

To DNF a book for me is always so painful. (Do Not Finish for those of you who don’t know the acronym (I didn’t used to)). There was once a book I was going to put in my DNF pile but I decided to push through and I was surprisingly […]



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Journalists: You Can Control The World

Journalists have the power to control the world! “What are you on about?” I’ll explain! When you are a journalist, your power is to inform the public on matters. As seen in recent events in the world, what you read online you generally believe. Most people don’t do any extra […]


Classic Versus New: The Art of Taking Your Time 14

Classic Versus New: The Art of Taking Your Time

Have you ever received a book recommendation from an adult of a classic that you were told you needed to read, but when you picked it up you were disappointed to find you struggled? Then you get a recommendation from a friend for a YA or new adult book and […]



Reading Outside: DO IT!

You know those summer days when you just want to stay in and do absolutely nothing. You just want to curl up with a good book, maybe some tea (or wine, no judgement) and do literally nothing! That’s great! Do that! But do it outside! Go and sit outside. Smell […]


Audio Books over iPads: Great Road Trip Alternative

Audio Books over iPads: Great Road Trip Alternative

We’re all guilty now of using our phones too much. We surreptitiously check it under the table when it vibrates silently in our lap, we turn on post notifications so we don’t even need to unlock our phone and type in that pass-code to see what social media update we […]