Thanks to Maggie Rose for giving our book “Don’t Date the Movie Star” by Eva Caper a shoutout in her new video! She also has some spooky October recommendations for those of you who (scandalized gasp!) like to read other genres besides romance.
How do booktubers read so many books in a month???
If I finish one a month I’m proud of myself. It’s a process of reading. Setting the book down to stare at the ceiling. Crying and smiling while saying “It’s so damn brilliant”
Or putting the book down and staring at the camera like I’m in the office because its so irritating.
Then there’s the two week period of book hangover when you can stop thinking about how brilliant this author is for making you feel things again.
I have to collect my thoughts and then write my opinion to sort out how I actually feel about it (welcome to this blog)
To celebrate me reaching 30k on my book blog, I decided to host this giveaway as a thank you to all my followers who helped me get here! These hardback books have all kindly been sent to me by the publishers, most of which are new to shelves this month! The books in the giveaway consist of:
- Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry, being published 27/7/17.
- The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan.
- The Girl Who Climbed Everest by Bonita Norris, being published 13/7/17.
- Evening Primrose by Kopano Matlwa, being published 27/7/17.
Conditions of Entry:
- Follow my blog (if you don’t already).
- Reblog this post.
- Comment the book title you’re looking forward to reading most!
The closing date for this giveaway is the 11th of August 2017, so you have four weeks from today to apply. The winner will be chosen at random and the giveaway is open to anyone as I am happy to post the four books worldwide. Good Luck!
Set in a dystopian world and military dictatorship called the Republic of Gilead, the novel explores themes such as censorship, oppression and rebellion; a society where women have extremely limited freedoms and are assigns ‘roles’ such as being an Agatha – a cook and house servant or Handmaid – to provide children for powerful households through ‘the ceremony’ whereby Housemaids have sex with the male head of the household with his wife present due to the decrease in births as a result of sexually transmitted diseases.
Religious fanaticism is an undertone that runs throughout the novel, with the regime having doctored the Old Testament to legitimise and empower their cause. The narrator Offred is a Handmaid and often flicks between past and present events as well as memories throughout the novel to allows the reader to have insight into the events leading up to the patriarchal takeover. Events such as the burning of lingerie due to their ‘hyper sexualisation’ of women and the new view that the female body must be covered at all times with exposure leading to execution. In the new regime, women are robbed of many basic rights such as the freedom of speech, banned from talking to anyone outside of their household and reading.
I absolutely loved this book, it was such an interesting read and the way the novel is structured means that you are constantly drip fed new information from how the Republic was established and Offred’s life Pre-Gilead with her husband and daughter. This is one of the few books that I would definitely read again and again because the concept and execution are so captivating that you can’t help but be enticed and drawn in by it. To me the novel echoes satire of politics and social constructs in the 1980’s at the time of Atwood’s writing and can be critically analysed through feminism, politics, sociology and the hierarchal structure of society – more specifically regarding the patriarchy.
Overall this was an intensely captivating and interesting read that I can’t recommend highly enough. Deserving of 9/10 because I really really enjoyed this book and didn’t want it to end! I definitely will be reading it again, and you should definitely give it a try if you’re looking for something that’s going to get you thinking this summer!
Make sure to check out my giveaway ending 11th August if you haven’t already!
To celebrate me reaching 30k on my book blog, I decided to host this giveaway as a thank you to all my followers who helped me get here! These hardback books have all kindly been sent to me by the publishers, most of which are new to shelves this month! The books in the giveaway consist of:
- Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry, being published 27/7/17.
- The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan.
- The Girl Who Climbed Everest by Bonita Norris, being published 13/7/17.
- Evening Primrose by Kopano Matlwa, being published 27/7/17.
Conditions of Entry:
- Follow my blog (if you don’t already).
- Reblog this post.
- Comment the book title you’re looking forward to reading most!
The closing date for this giveaway is the 11th of August 2017, so you have four weeks from today to apply. The winner will be chosen at random and the giveaway is open to anyone as I am happy to post the four books worldwide. Good Luck!
Here’s a little self portrait of me ruining my eyes by doing things by the light of my laptop, while listening to @readwithcindy who does the BEST book reviews.
Ahhhh, my precious. I read 10.5 books this month (I’m very nearly finished Jane Eyre)! I still need to film my wrap-up video for my #BookTube channel but I’ve been super busy with some other projects so I’m hoping to get to that tomorrow. What were your favourites this month? Mine were The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (a reread), and what I’ve read of Jane Eyre. Day 30: #Ampersand2018, #IAmSweetApril, #AprilInBooks18, #AllTheBooksApril, #RadBabesReadApril, #ReadGushMerch18, #BookReadHappyHour, #FangirlingInApril, #FearYourNovelApril, #AprilBookstagram18, #BookishHashtags18: Wrap-up 30 Apr 2018. . . . . . . #igreads #bookishfeatures #bookporn #aussiereaders #bookstagram #bookish #bookstagrammer #shelfie #bookshelves #classics #bookspinebeauty
Today I’m bringing a new post theme to my blog, seeing as I have an audible subscription, I thought you guys might be interested to see what I download each month. I get one credit per month and am so thankful for it – it means that I don’t have to pay £25 for something. (WOO.)
This month I downloaded Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. I watched Gone Girl when it was out in the cinema…
Backstory: I’m turning 21 on 16th February. I’m doing an Alice in Wonderland ‘Mad Hatters’ tea party (which I’ll probably blog about too) so everything that is related to Alice, I go I NEEEED IT.
I had been hauling vintage tea cups, whilst at the Antique shop my mum found this. It’s in really great condition for how old it is. I got it for £3 which was a steal! So I whipped out my camera, to take…
I went to the library today and returned some books I was no longer interested in and got some more titles that I AM interested in! Looking forward to reading these, majority of these titles I know of because of BookTube, I confess. . . . . . . . . . . #bookstagram #booktube #bookstagrammer #librarybooks #libraryhaul #scottsigler #alive #scottwesterfeld #afterworlds #zeroes #theprogram #suzanneyoung #shelovesyoushelovesyounot #julieannepeters #halfbad #sallygreen #bookporn #tbr #bookworm #booklove
Newest member to the family is guarding my TBR #unreadbooks #tbr #smaug #popvinyl #funkopop #funko #bookhaul #bookstagram #instabooks #booktube #readingislife #booklion #bookworm #booklover #dystopian
Enjoying some hot chocolate and 1984 before going to bed. Hope you all lovelies had a wonderful weekend. #1984 #penguinclassics #georgeorwell #booknerd #booktube #dystopia #classics #reading #latenightreading #currentlyreading #readingislife
Treated myself to a brand new copy of Fahrenheit 451! So excited to reread this!! #bookworm #readingislife #booklion #reading #fahrenheit451 #raybradbury #booklover #booktube #bookhaul #bookstagram #instabooks #booknerd
Closeup of Smaug, guarding my signed copy of Name of the Wind by Pat Rothfuss. #booknook #bookcorner #patrickrothfuss #nameofthewind #booktube #booklover #bookstagram #instabooks #reading #readingislife #redecorating #fantasy #bookworm
Still have to organize them…but I like how it all turned out for now #booksgalore #instabooks #booklover #bookshelf #bookstagram #personallibrary #bookworm #redecorating #reading #readingislife #bookcorner #booknook #rainbowbooks #booklion #booktube
(ESP) ¡Más vale tarde que nunca! Como varios me lo sugeristeis, esta semana he hecho un especial de “50 cosas sobre mí”. Espero que os guste. ¡Gracias por verme! Ya somos más de 1280 en el canal <3
(ENG) Better late than never! Since several of you suggested it, this week I made a “50 Things About Me” special. I hope you like it. Thank you for watching me! We’re over 1280 people in the channel <3 (English subtitles available!)
