Hi hello yes I went on a little romance-fiction binge but hey can you blame me? How good is uplifting fiction when the world has kind of gone to sh*t! (-: WHAT'S IT ABOUT? IS ANYONE'S LIFE... Beth shows that women really can have it all. Ruby lives life by her own rules. And then … Continue reading So Lucky – Dawn O’Porter | Review
It's no secret that The Flatshare was one of my top read is 2019 - so I of course JUMPED at the chance to read and review the newest romance from Beth O'Leary - The Switch - which hit shelves in April this year. WHAT'S IT ABOUT? When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take … Continue reading The Switch – Beth O’Leary | Review
We’re back on the audiobook memoir train, people! Celebrities narrating their own memoirs makes me happy, I love hearing the genuine emotion in the narration and this one is no exception (but a bit more uh...honest...than your run-of-the-mill memoir!) BLURB American comedian Ali Wong shares the wisdom she's learned from a life in comedy and … Continue reading Dear Girls – Ali Wong | Review
What a joy it is to pick up a book you know to be much-loved, and generally well received, and feel the same genuine delight within its pages. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was that book for me, through and through. I had seen it everywhere, of course heard about the movie (no, … Continue reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows | Review
My final read for 2019 and boy was it a great one! For something different, I listened to the audiobook of this (through my local library using the Libby app), read by Lin Manuel Miranda. BLURB Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe follows Aristotle through his somewhat lonely teenage years, but when … Continue reading Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz | Review
Honestly even picking a favourite place is pretty damn hard for me, so I have chosen a few below and let you know where each of them is set! There have been so many great books in my reading life, and I'm so bad at remembering ones I read a long time ago - so … Continue reading Books Set in My Favourite Place | Top 3
I'm delighted to be sharing my review this book as part of Penguin Random House's Blog Tour for it's Aussie release! I adored The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, so I was super excited to hear that Deborah Rodriguez was releasing another book this year and giving me another excuse to pick up one of her … Continue reading Island on the Edge of the World – Deborah Rodriguez | Review
This week we're all about those backlist titles. Not the fancy new ones that have been released this year (which always seem to jump ahead in the reading queue), but the ones waiting patiently on our shelves until we get to them. Here are my favourite 3 reads from this year that were published earlier … Continue reading Backlist Reads of 2019 | Top 3
Ohhhh boy, given I follow more than 300 bookstagram accounts as @acosyreader, this is going to be a hard one to narrow down! But I guess that’s part of the fun, right? To make this easier on myself, I’ve taken people I’ve met IRL out of contention, since I bang on about how much I … Continue reading Bookstagram Accounts | Top 3
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a spooky-book reader, so this season is always a funny one for me. Add to the fact that in Australia we’re not totally on board with the whole ‘Halloween’ thing yet (it’s just not the same without all those cosy fall vibes and pumpkin patches I … Continue reading Halloween Reads | Top 3
