Let’s Talk Bookish: Holiday Books

Happy Christmas Eve Eve everybody!!

Gonna be honest … I’m not feeling all that Christmassy this year which is odd because I’ve tried!! I watched Elf and all month I’ve been reading Christmas related books but still I’m shocked when I remember that Christmas Day is literally on Sunday.

It’s a good job then, that we’re finishing off the week with another holiday related post, this time for Let’s Talk Bookish!

Let’s Talk Bookish is a bookish meme that was created by Rukky @ Eternity Books and hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits, where each Friday, bloggers write posts discussing the topic of the week! Since the beginning of April, I’ve been the host of LTB, and I post each month’s topics here on my blog! December Topics

This weeks topic is … Holiday Books

Prompts: Christmas books and movies dominate the media during the winter season, but Christmas isn’t the only holiday being celebrated. Do you like reading holiday books at all? Have you ever read a holiday book about another religion? What about a holiday book not set during the winter season? If you’re religious but don’t celebrate Christmas, do you feel represented in the holiday media?

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Let’s Talk Bookish: My Personal Reading Taste’s

Hello and happy Friday!!!

I’m actually in class right now but in an attempt to look like I’m taking notes and not just staring out into space thinking about my lunch (I’m starving), I thought I’d get cracking with this week’s discussion.

Let’s Talk Bookish is a bookish meme that was created by Rukky @ Eternity Books and hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits, where each Friday, bloggers write posts discussing the topic of the week! Since the beginning of April, I’ve been the host of LTB, and I post each month’s topics here on my blog! November Topics!

This weeks topic is … How Do You Define Your Personal Reading Tastes? (Jillian @ Jillian the Bookish Butterfly)

Prompts: How would you define your personal reading tastes? What kinds of books do you like to read? How do you pick what books to read next? Do your reading preferences change often?

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Let’s Talk Bookish: DNF-ing Books

I’m staying up til 4am tonight. Usually this would be easy but the minute you tell me I HAVE to stay up late I immediately don’t want to. I have good motivation to stay awake though becaus I’m doing it for concert tickets.

Me and my friends want to go to Artic Monkeys concert next year. The tickets go on sale at 9am UK time … only problem is we’re in the US meaning we’re 5 hours behind. Hence staying up til 4am. I have no classes tomorrow so I’m taking one for the team.

I’ve got hours left to kill so I’m keeping occupied with this weeks Let’s Talk Bookish!!

Let’s Talk Bookish is a bookish meme that was created by Rukky @ Eternity Books and hosted by Aria @Book Nook Bits, where each Friday, bloggers write posts discussing the topic of the week! Since the beginning of April, I’ve been the host of LTB, and I post each month’s topics here on my blog! October Topics.

This weeks topic is … DNFing books (Mint @ Mint Loves Books)

Prompts: DNF is an acronym that stands for did not finish. What makes you DNF a book? How often do you DNF books? What’s the silliest or pettiest reason why you DNF’d a book? Do you review books that you DNF?

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I would genuinly name my kids after these characters.

Hey and hello 👋

I have a godson who is the most adorable thing in the entire world. I lowkey get baby fever every time I see him … and then I go stay at my dads house where my 11 year old brother and 7 year old sister live and that baby fever goes right out the window. I love my siblings, but jesus they’re a lot.

What I’m saying is that I don’t know if I even want kids but you bet your arse I’ve had a list of baby names since I was like 7. This list changes every few years but at the minute, there’s a few names of popular book characters that I’m loving, so I’m just here to share them with you today.

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Nina

I have read two characters named Nina and loved them both with my whole heart. Because of Nina Rook from Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid and Nina Zenik from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo I associate the name with a strong female character. I feel like there’s also a lot of trauma with this name, these two characters get put through the ringer a fair bit, but if I named my daughter this, I’d try to break that cylce.

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Reviewing books that aren’t for your age-range.

Howdy. Today I come to you with a little discussion post regarding “books that aren’t for your age-range”. I want to share just some thoughts that have been on my mind lately and see what other people think!

I feel like there’s two sides to the YA coin: young-Young Adult and mature-Young Adult. You can spot the difference between these two with the writing style, the actual age of the characters and the plot-points and topics discussed in the text.

That’s not to say that books with younger characters can’t fit into the mature-Young Adult category, or that young-Young Adult can’t still discuss important matters. I feel like most people are going to understand what I’m trying to say so I’m not going to over-explain myself. (please say you know what I mean🤞)

As someone who is approaching 20 *gasp horror* I’m starting to grow out of a large section of this genre that I still do really love. And that’s okay. It’s the circle of life. But sometimes I don’t realise that until I start reading.

For example, one of the first books I picked up this year was I Think I Love You by Aurianne Desombre and as soon as I started reading I realised the characters where younger then I was expecting and it read a lot younger too.

Ultimately I ended up enjoying it. I thought the age of the characters worked with the story being told and I found it cute, but before getting to that point I did have to think “how am I going to rate and review this?” Personally I didn’t like it but is it fair to drag down a books rating when logically I can see that it was meant for a younger audience?

What makes me pick up a book? // Let’s Talk Bookish

Howdy and happy Friday.

I’ve been on morning this week at school and so I’m dead. Or at the very least, my brain is napping right now. But functioning brain or not, it’s time for another round of Let’s Talk Bookish, with this weeks topic being: What makes you pick up a book? (suggested by Rafaela @ The Portuguese Bibliophile)

Let’s Talk Bookish is a is a weekly meme hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books and Dani @ Literary Lion, where we discuss certain topics, share our opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts.

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What makes you pick up certain books?

Sheer randomness and sometimes time restraints.

I write out a TBR each month for the sole reason of having the satisfaction of crossing them off when I’ve read them, but even then those books are picked based on what I’m in the mood for and what books have just been catching my attention recently.

Sometimes this is influenced by hype. Seeing a certain book talked about a lot on Youtube or on blogs makes me pick it up because I want to be part of the conversation.

And then there’s the whole: I need to read this because I don’t have much time left before the blog tour/ arc’s publication date/ release of the sequel or tv show.

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