Book review: Exit the Actress

Exit the Actress by Priya Parmar Paraphrased from Goodreads While selling oranges in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, sweet and sprightly Ellen "Nell" Gwyn impresses the theater's proprietors with a wit and sparkle that belie her youth and poverty. She quickly earns a place in the company, narrowly avoiding the life of prostitution to which …

Summer reading wrap-up

I managed to read a lot of wonderful books this summer and I'm so happy! I've been in a reading slump for the past couple years (yes, years. university does that to you), where all I wanted to read were the same YA romances over and over again. But this summer I found some great …

Read-a-thin recap!

I participated in the first ever Read-a-thin, which you can find more information about here on their Goodreads page! It was was created by Jessica at JessicaMarie, Amanda at ACourtofBooksandLove and Chelsea at AVeryBookishGirl. The point is to read books that you’ve had sitting around for a while and read them. The goal is to complete 6 of the …

WWW Wednesday: August 23

WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. It’s very simple: answer the three questions and leave a link to Sam’s post! The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? What are you currently reading? I'm …

2017 Book Goals

I wrote on my 2017 goals post that I wanted to read five new books, but I never really said what those five were. So I thought I’d write them down so I can refer back at the end of the year and see if I stuck to it. New reads: the Red Rising Trilogy by …