Thoughts for the day: I finished my first book of the readathon today, and in doing so, managed to tick off three of the challenges! Although I do always like to choose seven books for The Reading Rush, I do it knowing that it’s more for fun than anything, and that when it comes down to … More Day Three | The Reading Rush 2020
Thoughts for the day: In the glorious contradiction that is my Reading Rush attitude for this year, I took it slow today. I watched BookTube this morning when I had meant to read, and there was work that I wanted to get going with. In the evening, though, I began to get the feeling that has … More Day Two | The Reading Rush 2020
Thoughts for the day: Going into this year’s Reading Rush, I think I assumed that I would tackle it in the same way that I have done in years past – by reading as much as I possibly could (especially in the first couple of days), even if I felt as though I’d reached a … More Day One | The Reading Rush 2020
I’m not typically a TBR-maker – in fact, I can’t think of many occasions at all where I have made them in the past. The game changer is, as always, The Reading Rush. Choosing my TBR for this year has been a bit different because I usually like to read a mixture of my own … More My Reading Rush 2020 TBR
Following on from my previous post, in which I detailed some of the books that I have read so far in 2020, I finally sat down to look through everything else that I’ve read. I really did enjoy a lot of the books I was assigned to read in the first half of this year, … More Everything I’ve Read So Far in 2020 | Part 2 of 2
Of the fourteen books that I’ve read so far this year, only three of those have been books that I chose for myself outside of final year reading lists. My literature module for Spring Term was on British Science-Fiction and Fantasy, featuring children’s literature as well as heavier texts from the canon, which made a … More Everything I’ve Read So Far in 2020 | Part 1 of 2
It is only sitting down to write this blog post after handing in the final work of my degree that I realise quite how long it has been since I was last here. I always knew that my final year would be intense, but I don’t think I was really prepared for quite how intense … More Getting Back to Blogging
In June and July, I was finally able to delve into the books that I wanted to read because my exams were over and almost four months of summer were beginning to stretch out in front of me. Here’s everything that I read! Book #17: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky … More Reflection: June & July 2019 | Space Junkyards and Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
General thoughts: In practice – in terms of the cold hard numbers – this hasn’t been my most successful readathon ever. I didn’t read so much as last year, and I may have taken some liberties when it came to fitting my books to the challenges… I did, however, manage to read a decent amount on the final … More Day Six + Seven (27 + 28/07/19) | The Reading Rush
General thoughts: I managed to read more on day five of the readathon than on days three and four put together! I began reading The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan a couple of minutes before midnight on day four, and so a lot of my reading on day five was taken up by that. It’s a very slow-paced read, … More Day Five (26/07/19) | The Reading Rush
