Category Archives: Bookish Thoughts

My First Reading Journal

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Andrea Pryke

I have kept diaries for years, even if I don’t fill them out daily, every year I buy a new A4 Page a day desk diary and this year I am so far doing well at recording events that happen … Continue reading →

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Audio Books – Do they count as reading?

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Andrea Pryke

This is something that I have seen discussed a few times on blogs and booktube videos. Well if we are going to be completely technical about it then No it is not reading, because you are not actually reading the … Continue reading →

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Book buying ban? Not Likely

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Andrea Pryke

I have to stop buying books, I have around 580 on my TBR, to be fair the majority of them are on my Kindle, but the stack of unread books in my room is threatening to squash me flat.. But … Continue reading →

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2017 – A whole new year of books

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Andrea Pryke

Well here we are in a new year, I admit I have a lot of books to read and a lot of reviews to post, so you will be seeing a lot more content posted on the blog this year. … Continue reading →

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Why I started Reviewing Books

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Andrea Pryke

You may have wondered why I decided to start reviewing books and posting them on this blog and why I started posting videos on Youtube, again about books. Well there are a couple of reasons: Firstly – I love reading … Continue reading →

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Book buying ban!!!

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Andrea Pryke

I have to stop buying books, I have around 580 on my TBR, to be fair the majority of them are on my Kindle, but the stack of unread books in my room is threatening to squash me flat. my … Continue reading →

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Clearing the shelves

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Andrea Pryke

The Goodread shelves that is I recently decided to tidy my Goodreads account, I had far too many shelves which were frankly unnecessary, including shelves for each year, but as I do the challenge they were redundant, I also had … Continue reading →

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How many books are too many?

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Andrea Pryke

I previously posted about culling my book collection and I also posted a video on Youtube about my physical TBR pile, but what about E-books? How many are on your TBR? Currently on my Kindle I have over 500 unread … Continue reading →

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My Favourite Authors

Posted on June 18, 2016 by Andrea Pryke

Every book lover has a favourite author or 10, I love to see who other readers love and why, this gives me the incentive to go out and read books by those authors, books that I might never have picked … Continue reading →

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To cull or not to Cull?

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Andrea Pryke

This is a hard question, I don’t like getting rid of books but, when we moved into our house a few years ago I culled several hundred books from my collection, the majority of the were mass market paperbacks, and … Continue reading →

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