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Book Review - Dungeon Academy: Tourney of Terror by Madeleine Roux

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. We’re a few weeks into our D&D campaign by now and it’s been great learning about the game. I just want to get more into the story and get my character levelled up. It’s so much fun and I wish I’d started playing years ago. As I’m still in the spirit of adventure, I decided it was time to pick up the second book in this series. I really enjoyed the first book and always…

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Sunday Rundown: That's What She Read

What have you been reading this week? Thankfully, work was a little less stressful this week but it’s still not back to normal. Fortunately, I just have to get through the next 5 days and I have a few days off. I can’t wait for a long long weekend to just sit and relax. I’ve had a really good month of reading in April, so I want to keep it up in May. I also just want some time off. This year is…

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Film Review - Wish (2023)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. This film wasn’t really on my radar until one of the songs turned up on one of my Spotify daily playlists. I’m not one of these big Disney fans who watch the latest releases when they come out. If it’s something special then I’ll maybe check it out sooner but, most of the time, I’ll just wait until it’s available to stream. Before this week, I didn’t know much about…

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Book Review - Pity by Andrew McMillan

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. I haven’t read any of Andrew McMillan’s poetry, so I didn’t have any expectations going into this one. I just knew that I wanted to read it. Not only is it set in the North of England, which is obviously very important to me. Especially as Andrew McMillan is actually a Northern writer. I’m so used to seeing Southern authors setting a book in the bleak North and…

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Book Review - The Men by Sandra Newman

⭐⭐ Rating: 2 out of 5. I was totally on board with the concept of this book. I know it could be seen as divisive but I wanted to see how the premise would play out. I’m not a huge fan of dystopian fiction and gender based apocalypse narratives don’t always work out as well as they should. I still can’t get over how disappointing books like The Power by Naomi Alderman were and how horribly…

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Sunday Rundown: That's What She Read

What have you been reading this week? What a week. It’s just been non-stop at work and I’ve paid for it at home. The usual lack of sleep and tiredness has been here making reading difficult. Still, I managed to finish a couple of books this week, which means I’ve not lost momentum. I think April is going to end up being a really good month. I know it won’t keep happening for all of 2024 but it’s…

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Film Review - Scoop (2024)

⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 2.5 out of 5. I really loved Frost/Nixon when it came out. I’m not saying that I don’t love it now but I haven’t seen it in ages. Not only is it a film that portrays an important moment in history but it manages to capture the tension of the situation. I mention is because whoever wrote Scoop clearly thought this was their Frost/Nixon. This time, David Frost has been replaced by…

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Book Review - The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Stuart Turton is one of those writers that has been on my TBR for ages now. I’ve had a copy of The Devil and the Dark Water since it came out. I don’t know what stopped me from picking it up but something did. It was probably just because it seemed so much bigger than the books I was reading at the time. Whatever it was, I didn’t read it. It’s a similar story with The…

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Bitesize Book Reviews 18

I’ve been reading a lot more on my Kindle recently. It’s not the format I typically pick for my reading but I don’t know why. I think I’m quicker on my Kindle than I am with physical books. However, having a full Kindle library is less aesthetically pleasing than having a full physical library. The reason I’ve been doing more if that I realised that Amazon had started a Kindle Challenge and if…

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Sunday Rundown: That's What She Read

What have you been reading this week? Last week was a weird week. I took some time off to help my sister with childcare. So, it wasn’t exactly a break but I had a lot of fun. Then my last two days at work felt so awful. It was slow and busy. I also know that this week is going to feel even worse because I haven’t done a full week in so long. Thanks to Easter, it’s been over two weeks and I don’t…

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Film Review - Damsel (2024)

⭐⭐ Rating: 2 out of 5. You have to hand it to Millie Bobby Brown. She’s trying really hard to create inspiring characters that young women and girls can look up to. She’s been banging on about how great Damsel would be a feminist dream in the same way that Emma Watson did about the Beauty and the Beast remake. We all remember how that went. I’m all for flipping the narrative but what I’d seen…

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Bitesize Book Reviews 18

I managed to sneak a few short middle grade books in recently and I just wanted to get the reviews out of the way. Mostly because I didn’t feel as though I had much to say. The first two were the continuation of Jennifer Killick’s Dread Wood series that I’d borrowed from the library. Listening to middle grade fiction at work is brilliant. The relaxed and fun story is a great counter for the…

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Book Review - Elektra by Jennifer Saint

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. After reading Clytemnestra last month, I knew that I would have to pick up Elektra this month. After all, she obviously popped up quite a bit in the previous book. I was interested to see how the mother and daughter would fare in a different book. Would Jennifer Saint be as sympathetic as Costanza Casati? I have to admit that I was a little sceptical going in because…

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Sunday Rundown: That's What She Read

What have you been reading this week? I’ve got a few days off at the start of this week and I’m looking forward to not being at work. I won’t exactly be relaxing but getting some time out of the office is always good. It’s a particularly stressful time and there’s a lot going on. Do we have the time to do it? Of course not. That would be too easy. Still, I’m still managing to finish books along…

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Film Review - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. It feels like we’ve only just had a film adaptation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but it turns out it was 2016. 2016 was, apparently, 8 years ago, which is actually quite a while. I’m not actually sure how many of the different adaptations that I’ve seen. There was something back in the 90s but I can’t remember which one. I feel like it was the Teenage Mutant…

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Book Review - Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Last month became a month of mythology for me. I hadn’t planned it but I was excited to get into some of the retellings that had been sitting on my shelf. In the end, I only read 4 books but that was 50% of my March books. I still have a few more that I can add to my April TBR but I got some big ones out of the way. I’m definitely going to be reading Elektra this month…

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Bookish Post - March 2024 Reading Wrap-Up

Number of books read: 8Number of rereads: 0Number of physical books: 2Number of ebooks: 0Number of audiobooks: 6Number of ARCS: 0 5* reviews: 14.5* reviews: 04* reviews: 4 March really did just fly by, didn’t it. It was my birthday month, but that feels like it was years ago. I was hoping to match the number of books I read in January in March. However, I didn’t quite manage it. I did match the…