This was a very cute, thrilling... gothic horror story for children? I would have loved this book as a child (and I loved it now). It has mystery, action, family and friendship, and a strange invisible girl. 4/5⭐️

This was a very interesting and, as far as I know, comprehensive introduction to the history of the indigenous people of North America. I learned a lot I didn't know before. It looks beautiful too. It was a little short, but that is to be expected from a book aimed at children. I think it's a great start to further reading. 4/5⭐️

This book really just threw you in without much of an explanation. I love Terry Pratchett's writing style and I enjoy how weird this book is, but I guess I expected more after reading Equal Rites. That one had more of a story. Still, I give this one 3/5⭐️ for being amazingly absurd and having some absolutely spot-on sentences.

I loved this book. It has a slow start, but that's not a bad thing, because there's still tension and you never lose interest. Then everything comes together in the end and I just thought 'is this really happening?' Well, it was, and then the book ended, and I need the sequel. (I already ordered it but it's gonna take a week 😭) 4/5⭐️

I wrote a very long review for this on my blog (link in bio), but bottom line is I loved it! This book was perfect for me.
4/5⭐️

A cute, quick read written much like a fairy tale. I love the characters - especially the sweet Tin Woodman - and I think this is a great book to read and discuss with children and adults alike.
4/5 ⭐️

His Dark Materials is an amazing series. I'm currently rereading it in English for the first time with @erinwroe and I just finished the first book. Its themes of religion and science are intriguing, its characters are interesting and well-rounded and Lyra is one of my favourite protagonists ever. She's like a little girl version of Odysseus - a type of character you don't often see in female protagonists. 5/5🌟

I'm not sure what to think of this book! It doesn't really seem to have a story, just a few scenes in this fictional world. Some are funny, some a little confusing. I didn't really know who the characters were because it's such a short book (and I'm too lazy to keep checking the dramatis personae).
3 stars, maybe 2,5?
Content warning for racism.

This book was a lot of fun and, of course, geeky. Sometimes I felt like the pop culture references were a little too much, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the book. What I love most is the #ownvoices anxiety, autism, and bisexual rep. As someone with anxiety and possibly autism, I could see myself in Taylor in a way I never could with any main character. I wish I'd had a Taylor when I was a teenager.
3,5/5⭐️

I'm loving this book!

(I saved this quote on the Bookout app, hence the 'taken on 6 August 2017'.)

This was a very pleasant surprise after the rather disappointing second book! More fantasy and horror elements (of the Lovecraftian kind) and a story that actually felt like it was going somewhere. Still on the fence about whether you're supposed to like Cabal or not, though, which is strange, maybe, after three books?
Book 11 for #sumtbreadathon

Another fun & quick read, that once again contained a lot of information previously published on Pottermore. I enjoyed the chapter on Slughorn the most, because it gave some details of his character that made me understand why I kind of like him.
Book 10 for #sumtbreadathon

I loved learning more about these characters (though I think at least some of the contents of this ebook have been published on Pottermore before). Especially Lupin and McGonagall.
Book 9 for #sumtbreadathon

Fun, quick read. It was a little strange that there was a chapter about the Hufflepuff common room and none of the others? I think it was because that one is never described in the books, but I would have liked more information on the others anyway.
Book 8 for #sumtbreadathon

I read as much as I could this weekend for the #24in48 readathon, and made it to a little over 9 hours. Maybe next time the readathon will happen in a weekend when I have nothing else to do and I can actually make it to 24 hours!

2nd book for #24in48 readathon! 4/5⭐️ overall. The Fountain of Fair Fortune and The Tale of the Three Brothers were my favourite stories.
The Wizard and the Hopping Pot: 3⭐️
The Fountain of Fair Fortune: 4⭐️
The Warlock's Hairy Heart: 2⭐️ - kind of aromisic. The warlock forgoes all love, but romantic love still seemed to have the focus.
Babbity Rabbity and Her Cackling Stump: 3⭐️
The Tale of the Three Brothers: 5⭐️
Book 7 for #sumtbreadathon

First book for #24in48 finished! While this was a fun read and I loved the sarcasm and dry wit, it fell a little flat. For a book about a necromancer, there was awfully little necromancy; for a book titled 'the detective', there was awfully little detective work. I'd expected a murder mystery, and there was one, but it was impossible to work out the clues yourself because there hardly were any. 2,5/5⭐️
Book 6 for #sumtbreadathon

As I said, I probably won't make it to 24 hours this weekend... but I read as much as I could and almost finished my book. Now I'm off to bed! #24in48

There is possibly no insult so calculated to sting the English as the suggestion that they may at any time be considered foreign, as this flies in the face of the obvious truth that the whole of Creation actually belongs to the English, and they are just allowing everybody else to camp on bits of it out of a national sense of noblesse oblige.

Starting the #24in48 readathon with this one. I was already 168 pages in so I hope to finish it soon!

[T]he story should lead, and the theme will emerge in its own time and it's own way. Besides, if you want to write something perfect, write a haiku. Anything longer is bound to have a few passages that don't work as well as they might.

This was a fun read! I loved learning little things that I'd never have thought of, but that actually make a lot of sense. Like the fact that brooms are enchanted with cushioning charms so they're more comfortable to sit on!
Book 5 for #sumtbreadathon

This book made me almost-cry several times. I loved how both stories - Pepper's past and Lovelace's present - complemented each other and worked to the same conclusion. I loved these characters. And did I mention I almost-cried?
I would have liked to see Human nonbinary characters though. With all the care they take to get pronouns right, all the NB characters being aliens stands out like a sore spot. Same goes for TLWtaSAP.
#sumtbreadarhon book 4

Figured I'd give this a try! #litsypenpals

I love this book so much. It's heartwarming as well as heartbreaking. It's got a diverse and interesting cast of characters. It's the perfect comfort read, as well as just being a really good scifi with well thought out world building. I'm so excited to finally read the sequel!
Book 3 for the #sumtbreadathon

If you have a fractured bone, and I've broken every bone in my body, does that make your fracture go away? Does it hurt you any less, knowing that I am in more pain?

Quick, fun read. The notes made by Harry and Ron were so cute!
How awesome would it be to have an illustrated edition of this? With illustrations of all the different creatures! I kind of want to listen to the audiobook narrated by Eddie Redmayne as well.
Newt Scamander bookmark by @wordsbyjasmine
Second book for the #sumtbreadathon

I really enjoyed this series and I was impressed by this last book. I'm tending to a higher rating (4 instead of 3 stars) because I almost cried a few times (and books don't make me cry often).

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

This entire conversation is gold. Harry finally calling Dumbledore on his sh*t, even if it's just a portrait version of him.
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"But I had to meet you in the end... eleven years old, and you were so brave. So good. You walked uncomplainingly along the path that had been laid at your feet. Of course I loved you... and I knew that it would happen all over again... that where I loved, I would cause irreparable damage... I am no fit person to love..."

The first time I read this I was so excited I ignored everything I didn't like and gave it 4 stars. Now I'm giving it 2... The plot is far-fetched, several characters have changed completely from the books, and not even Scorpius Malfoy can save it now. Still rating it so-so because of Scorpius, Draco, and one wonderful conversation between Harry and portrait!Dumbledore.

Seven bookstagrammers (me included) are hosting a readathon in July! Check my last instagram post for the details - but basically it's about reading as many TBR books and ARCs as possible & using the hashtag #sumtbreadathon

... among mortal women, know this
... you could free me from all my cares
... on the riverbanks
... all through the night
Sappho, Fragment 23
#ownvoices #pridemonth

This book was incredibly interesting, and accessible and easy to read even if you haven't studied classics. (As a classics student I spotted a few things that could have been more nuanced, but for newcomers that's not important enough to go into.) I read it in only a few days. This makes you appreciate not only Sappho, but all ancient Greek women. 4🌟

Who else is excited about the new Netflix series? I quickly read The Bad Beginning before watching the first two episodes yesterday. Can't wait to continue!

Almost done catching up with reviews. I read Tokyo Ghoul 7, 8 and 9 back to back. 7 and 8 were pretty much all fighting, which I found a little disappointing. The plot is thickening once again in 9, though, so I'm excited again to get to the next volume!

Reading the screenplay was pretty much just reliving the movie in text form. I definitely enjoyed it, but watching the movie is just more fun. The book looks so gosh darn pretty though!

A lot of people were raving about this poetry collection, and while I didn't love it as much as they did, I enjoyed it and there were a few poems that stood out to me. I feel like this style of poetry is very hit or miss for me.

Finished this book over Christmas. Still love it. I think I like this one better than Philosopher's Stone, I feel like there's more depth to the story. It's also the kind of book that improves on a reread, because you pick up on a lot of little things you don't notice when you don't know who opened the Chamber of Secrets.

A beautiful book with beautiful illustrations. Seems like a good book to read to children (as long as they're not too young) that holds its own when read by adults and young adults. I wonder what the movie adaptation will be like.

I read this before, in secondary school. I liked it then and I liked it now. I probably understood it better this time. All I can say is it's a very interesting book and, in my opinion, a very good book. Today at uni I learned that it is very thought-provoking, too.

My #tbr for December. I'm reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and A Monster Calls with The Magic Book Club (we're on instagram and goodreads if you'd like to join!), Milk and Honey with Cosmoreaders (also on goodreads!) and Slaughterhouse-Five for uni. I figured I'd get to Tokyo Ghoul once I've finished all that...

An old woman remembers the affair she had as a 15 year old French girl with a 27 year old Chinese man in Saigon in the 1930s. Beautifully written, I would describe it as stream-of-consciousness but more postmodern.

Awkward 'I love Harry Potter selfie' 😅 This was a reread, of course. I still love it. Don't have much else to say, really.
Jim Kay's illustrations in these new editions are beautiful. I love his interpretation of the wizarding world.

Every scene in this play starts funny, witty, then while you're laughing something serious happens and your face kind of freezes like 'should I still be laughing?'. Kind of like real life. Amazing. Definitely recommend this and I hope some day I will get to see it on stage.

Apart from being a beautifully written, thrilling adventure, this book shows how much visions of the future are rooted in the time they were written in. That makes The Time Machine suitable for lovers of both science fiction and Victorian/fin-de-siècle literature.

I'm currently (re)reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with a book club I co-host on instagram called The Magic Book Club. We have weekly discussions on goodreads so feel free to join! #bookclub
We also have challenges on instagram and the first one was 'Make your own Hogwarts acceptance letter'...

This book was a very pleasant surprise. I had to read it for uni and I didn't know what to expect, but I absolutely loved it. Flaubert's descriptions are so. good. I'm very bad at descriptions myself, so these really gave me something to aspire to as a writer.

This might become my favourite Jim Butcher series yet. I'm saying that with caution since it's only the first book, but I have a feeling it will be. The characters were amazing and the story is intruiging. Butcher takes time to set up the story, then takes the characters and by extention you by surprise. He's just a little too fond of situations that seem hopeless, only for the characters to be rescued at the last second.

"Rowl, my friend, you are at times a perfect little monster."
Rowl gave his tail a disdainful flick. "I am a perfect everything."

#SockSunday with cat socks appropriate for this quote. Rowl, if you hadn't noticed, is a cat.