Good morning and welcome to my weekly round up inspired by Novels and Nonfiction. So, grab yourself a coffee, (or tea) a comfy chair and come and have a browse with me.
Here are some of the great reviews I’ve read this week
The Geeky Bibliophile – Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
Keeper of Pages – Needful Things by Stephen King
Gem’s Quiet Corner – TH1RT3EN by Steve Cavanagh
Novel Deelights – What Holly’s Husband Did by Debbie Viggiano
Anne Bonny Reviews – The Outsider by Stephen King
Random Melon Reads – Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Cover To Cover – F*** You Very Much by Danny Wallace
Swirl & Thread – Till the Cows Come Home by Lorna Sixsmith
Books On The Shelf – The Last Night Out by Catherine O’Connell
These are some fab posts from across the book blogging community
Jill’s Book Cafe – Privilege vs Entitlement
Art And Soul – Salted caramel beach cupcakes
Always Trust in Books – Extract: The Life Of A Banana by PP Wong
Chrissi Reads – Fairy Tale Friday- The Goshawk and The Brave Lady
Linda’s Book Blog – Extract: Shelter by Sarah Franklin
Book Bum – My Favourite Reviews of the Week
J.W. Martin – Discussion – Page Edge Preferences
The Belgian Reviewer – Same Book, Different Cover & The Cathy Connolly Series Guest Post
Fictionophile – Wednesday’s Word = Broken (Cover Love redux)
Keeper of Pages – Book box Unboxing: Ninja Book Box (Conspiracy by Candlelight) Death By Tsundoku – Between the Lines: In Defense of Fluffy Reads
On The Blog This Week:
It’s been quite a busy week on the blog, starting off with a music video for Music Monday. On Tuesday I joined in with the meme Top 5 Tuesday. On Wednesday I joined in with the Same Book, Different Cover meme and shared my usual WWW Wednesdays! post. On Thursday I shared my May Wrap Up and Favourite Books of the Month post. On Friday I joined in with the First Impression Friday meme and also shared my list for the 20 Books of Summer 2018 Challenge. On Saturday I posted my usual Stacking The Shelves post, as well as taking part in The Six Degrees of Separation meme.
Other Links
The Guardian – Grace Dent: ‘The processed food debate is delicious, MSG-sprinkled class war’
AudioFile Magazine – Celebrating Children’s Book Week with Simon Vance on The Download
The Guardian – Wearing glasses may really mean you’re smarter, major study finds
Evie Gaughan – Books Are For Everyone
BBC News – Tales From the Far Flung Faroes
Thanks for reading and have a lovely Sunday 😀
Great posts! Thanks for the mention 😁
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Thanks you’re welcome 🙂
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Thanks so much – I’m off to look at some of the ones I haven’t seen before x
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You’re welcome x
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I too loved Janel’s review of Needful Things. I’ll be ordering it tomorrow.
I wear glasses. Though not as much as I used to. I hope that doesn’t mean I’m getting dumber 🤣
Thanks for the mention!
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Well I certainly don’t feel I’m more intelligent because I wear mine all the time 😀
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😂😂
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Hey Nicki! Thanks for including me in your list of links this week. ❤
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Thank you for featuring my recipe 🙂
I’m off to check out the glasses meaning you’re smarter article in the hope that the scientific evidence is good and I can start telling people it’s not just that I’ve weakened my eyes from too much reading!!
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You’re welcome 🙂 It’s an interesting read for sure!
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Thanks for the mention this week! ❤️
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You’re welcome 😀
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Thanks for the double feature!x
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You’re welcome x
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❤ Thank you for mentioning my fairy tale post!
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Thank you so much for the mention 🙂
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You’re welcome 😀
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Thank you Nicki!! We’ve been reading a lot of great books again this week, so wonderful to see so many of them listed! I really liked Liis’ review of F*** You Very Much :-).
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Thanks there are so many good books all the time! 😀
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Oh, wow! Thank you very much for the shout out. That’s very kind of you to include me among so many other interesting posts!
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You’re very welcome 🙂
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Blame being on holiday for my late post, but it’s always wonderful to be featured here, Nicki. Thank you 😚
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You’e welcome 🙂
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