Hello Everyone!
Today is International Teacher’s Day! So I wanted to wish all my fellow teachers a massive Happy International Teacher’s Day. You all deserve a massive pat on the back and a big well done especially during the chaos that is 2020.
Well done everyone and keep up the amazing work but also remember to look after yourselves as well.
Hello Everyone,
I hope you all have a good week planned ahead. So here is what my week has been like in the blogging world.
Posts this Week
Books I am Currently Reading
Books I have Acquired
Well September got off to a great reading start and then studying started and everything has sadly slowed down. I’m doing a lot of reading for my MA and doing extra reading for my dissertation but not so much of the fun books that I blog about. Although I’m hoping to do something fun for my dissertation.
So here is my September…
(Click the pictures to go to the reviews)
Sappho: Poems and Extracts by Sappho
Pages: 144
Format Read: Paperback
Dragon Rating: 5/5
Moonflower Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Pages: 608
Format Read: Hardback
Dragon Rating: 3/5
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Pages: 301
Format Read: Hardback
Dragon Rating: 4/5
The Existence of Amy by Lana Grace Riva
Pages: 247
Format Read: Paperback
Dragon Rating: 5/5
The Smell of Cedar by River Dixon
Pages: 96
Format Read: Kindle
Dragon Rating: 1/5
Total Books Read: 5
Total Pages Read: 1396
Drop me a comment if you have read any of these books and want to chat.
Happy Friday Everyone!
I hope everyone has some good book plans this weekend.
The poem I have chosen is actually one of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
Sonnet Number 8
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy;
Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly,
Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire, and child, and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing;
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: ‘Thou single wilt prove none.’
William Shakespeare
Hello!
Well this week has mainly focused on studying and teaching to be honest but here is what else I have been up to.
Walking
The walking is going strong when it isn’t raining.
Cats
We had to take our one cat to the vet, she is all ok but it was a traumatic experience for my husband and myself. I’m the one who has to catch the cat which is always rather a worry.
Knitting
The scarf is still going strong. I am already planning my next challenge but I must make myself finish the scarf first.
So there it is, a rather quiet week but got lots of work done which is always good.
Happy Wednesday!
The quote I have chosen for today is by Abraham Lincoln who was the 16th President of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. For more info please check out Jana’s blog.
Here are some of my all time favourite book quotes!
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone By J. K. Rowling
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
There is my Top Ten Tuesday, I really enjoyed this week’s Top Ten Tuesday. Please drop me a comment with your Top Ten Tuesday.
Goodreads Monday is hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
This is the first time I have taken part in Goodreads Monday so here is a book I have chosen at random off my TBR list.
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession.
London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment – forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning.
When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love.
But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening . . .
Drop me a comment if you have read it and drop me a link with your Goodreads Monday and I will check out your post.
Hello everyone
So here is my week blogging.
Posts this week
Books I am Reading
Books I Have Acquired
Hello!
I saw this on Julie’s blog One More Book and loved it so thought I would give it a go.
Never Have I Ever… burned a book
Definitely a no from me, I never destroy books.
Never Have I Ever… read a book I knew I would hate
This I have definitely done. Lots of books on study lists that I just knew I would not enjoy but read anyway.
Never Have I Ever… written a fanfiction about my favourite books
A big no! I have never been keen on fanfiction.
Never Have I Ever… loved a book when I was young, yet hated it when I got older.
Hmm this is a tricky one. I’m not sure I have a book that I have hated as an adult but I have plenty of books that I hated as a child and now love as an adult.
Never Have I Ever… dressed up as one of my favourite literary characters.
I dressed up as lots of characters when I was at school but can’t quite remember them all. I have dressed up as Legolas in the past.
Never Have I Ever… hated a book by an author I love
Terry Pratchett is my all time favourite author but I hated his book Snuff and that really upset me as I never thought I would dislike a book by him.
Just recently I read The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths and I really did not like that either when everything I have read of Griffiths’ so far I have loved.
Never Have I Ever… gone into a bookstore to buy one book and come out with many more
All the time! I seriously can not be trusted in a bookstore as my poor husband knows all too well.
Never Have I Ever… read the ending of a book before reading the beginning
Never! But I have read the ending of a book that I haven’t been enjoying to see if it is worth carrying on with.
Never Have I Ever… read a book without the dust cover
All the time as it protects the dust cover.
Never Have I Ever… skim read nearly half a book
Definitely, especially when reading study books.
Never Have I Ever… dropped a book in the bath
Yes! Hence why I never now read in the bath.
I really enjoyed this book tag. I won’t be tagging anybody but feel free to join in!
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