2021 | Cinderella retellings & murder mysteries!

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 ~ Ellyn ~ 2 Comments

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! Today I’m giving you a quick update on what I’m currently reading! I’ve been in a reading slump this month, occasionally reading some comics, but mostly I’ve just been thinking about books and then never picking them up. But, I did finally finish a book yesterday so I’m hoping to get some momentum and kick myself out of this slump!

WWW Wednesday is hosted by Taking On a World of Words and you can find my other WWW Wednesday posts and find my progress here.

My Goodreads Goal Update!

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THE HOEMANCE BOOK CLUB OCTOBER, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER PICKS

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 ~ Ellyn ~ Leave a comment

Last month I introduced The Hoemance Book Club here on my blog and this month we’re reading The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang (there’s still time to join us if you’re interested!). I’m personally really loving discussing the book on the Discord with everyone in the club and I can’t wait to discuss it with everyone in our live show at the beginning of next month! So, here are out book club picks for OCTOBER, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER of this year! I’ll also be posting our book club picks for the start of 2022 later this year so look out for that post!

ALL THE LINKS

Find us on Twitter & Instagram (I highly recommend following our Ig, we post lots of romance recommendations on there and it’s a blast!)
Join our Discord here
We will have monthly live shows on YouTube & we occasionally have a Netflix Party! (in September we’re watching Set It Up!)
Suggest books for future reads here
Join our StoryGraph challenge here

Find out more about the book club here ⬇ & find our catalogue of past books here.

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5 Reasons You Should Watch Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

September 19, 2021September 19, 2021 ~ Ellyn ~ 3 Comments

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

M – Mature audiences, but works as a family movie

SYNOPSIS
Martial-arts master Shang-Chi confronts the past he thought he left behind when he’s drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

Letterboxd Review

Okay, so the time is finally here! Let’s talk about the latest instalment in the MCU – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings! This movie has literally taken the world by storm with an impressive $140M opening worldwide in a pandemic no less! And yet I see next to no one talking about it… So, I figured since I loved it so much, I’d do my part and give you my top 5 reasons why you should go and watch this movie! Or, at least stream it a couple of times when it hits DIsney+!

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WWW Wednesday 15/09/2021 | I’M IN A READING SLUMP 😥

September 15, 2021September 18, 2021 ~ Ellyn ~ 4 Comments

Okay, so I’m currently in a crazy reading slump and I’ve been too busy to try and get out of it lately, BUT I have been reading very sporadically, or enough to make this post so I figured why not talk about books, this is a book blog after all!

WWW Wednesday is hosted by Taking On a World of Words and you can find my other WWW Wednesday posts and find my progress here.

My Goodreads Goal Update!

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All The Books I Read in May – August | 2021 Books 📚👀

September 6, 2021September 6, 2021 ~ Ellyn ~ 4 Comments

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! I’ve been really loving posting my wrap ups this year and back in May I posted a quick snapshot of everything I read in the first four months which I really like being able to look back on. So, I figured I’d do the same thing here for May, June, July and August!

[IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT I’M READING WHILE I’M READING, YOU CAN CATCH ME ON GOODREADS & THE STORYGRAPH]

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MY SEPTEMBER TBR

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 ~ Ellyn ~ 7 Comments

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! Today I’m showing you all my tbr for September! In AUgus I tried out a tbr wheel and loved it but this month I’m just focusin gon reading graphic novels and reading the things I’m really excited for. I’ll be doing a lot of mood reading this month!

September is also the first month when we’re kickstarting the Hoemance Book Club with The Heart Principle and I cannot wait to read it with you all!

I also wanted to mention that since I don’t do book recommendation posts quite as much on my blog anymore I have started doing them over on the Hoemance Book Club instagram account and I have some really cool posts planned for over there! You can also find us here on Twitter.

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MY AUGUST 2021 WRAP UP | Reading steadily & All the stats!

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 ~ Ellyn ~ 8 Comments

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog and welcome to my August 2021 reading and watching wrap up! This month I got really stuck into my uni work so I had a lot of time to listen to audiobooks on the train but, other than my commutes I didn’t have a whole tonne of time to read! I

Goodreads Challenge Update!

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Mini Reviews – PICTURE BOOKS! 📚😍🤯

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 ~ Ellyn ~ Leave a comment

Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog! I’ve been really loving reviewing picture books this year and yesterday I got a big book full of them from Walker Books. Usually I wait a few days to publish my review but I was honestly too excited so you’re getting it now and I can’t recommend these books enough!

Thank you so much to Walker Books for providing me with review copies.💕

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SECOND HALF OF 2021 TBR

August 21, 2021August 21, 2021 ~ Ellyn ~ 8 Comments

Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog! Today I’m in the mood to talk books so I’m going to go through the top 10 books on my tbr for the rest of 2021 since somehow August is almost over? Also, I’m listening to the Guardians of the Galaxy in vol 1 soundtrack so it’s put me in a really really happy mood. If you’re listening to anything right now, let me know in the comments so I can add it to my Spotify playlist.

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INTRODUCING: THE HOEMANCE BOOK CLUB + The September Book Pick! | 😍😍😍 I run a romance book club now???

August 20, 2021September 1, 2021 ~ Ellyn ~ 3 Comments

Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog! Lately I’ve been in a really weird mood like I want to be more active in the book community but I’m not sure how! I already run two readathons throughout the year so I didn’t want to create another one, especially when there are so many amazing ones out there already. This year I’ve been really loving exploring the romance genre and getting recommendations from my friend Rebecca who’s been redaing romance for a lot longer than I have, so I took to Twitter and luckily for me and unluckily for you, Lara convinced me to start a book club!

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ALL THE LINKS

[IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT I’M READING WHILE I’M READING, YOU CAN CATCH ME ON GOODREADS & THE STORYGRAPH]

Goodreads Challenge Update!

Thank you so much to Walker Books for providing me with review copies.💕

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