Dewey's Opening Meme!

There is less than half an hour to go till Dewey's 24 hour readathon and to get us started we have some questions to answer:

1. What fine part of the world are you reading from today? England! West midlands to be more precise. 
2. Which book in your stack are you most looking forward too? I think The Jane Austen Guide to Life by Lori Smith. This is the 1 I'm starting with too.
3. Which snack are you most looking forward to? Lots of tea and I have a rose and cardamom hot chocolate which I am going to treat myself to :)
4. Tell us a little something about yourself? Ummm... I am a flautist and have been for nearly 9yrs now.
5. If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to? I kinda participated last time but I got distracted and didn't actually do much reading so this time I am going to commit.  

Good luck everyone!  

Speak soon,
Jade xx

Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon

Tomorrow is this October's 24 hour readathon and considering I've hardly read anything since August I figured it might be a good idea to take part. All the info is on their website if you also want to sign up. Everyone starts simultaneously so each time zone has a different starting time, make sure you check yours. For the UK it's 1pm. I'll update you on my progress via twitter/ instagram (@jadeling97) I'm not 100% on what I will be reading but I do know it will be from my currently reading pile which is:

• Pamela by Samuel Richardson
• Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
• The Jane Austen Guide to Life by Lori Smith

To anyone taking part I wish you luck and I hope you enjoy yourselves. Now I am going to go and make sure I have a good nights sleep. :)

Speak soon,

Jade xx

Book Haul!

Hello :) I am back once again with a book haul! Some of these I brought myself- I managed to snag a few bargins too- and others were birthday presents but I will start with the bargins.

 While I was in Coventry I found this bookshop that was closing down and clearing it stock :( and I   found a couple of beauties. First I got a copy of Secret Garden by Frances Hogson Bernet. It is just a  basic collins classic but it is small and that the key part. I have massive- beautiful but massive-  edition of this book and its just kinda hard to read so I've been looking for a smaller one. I also  picked up a exquisite edition of Jane Eyre (meaning we now have 3 in the house, opps!) It has this  purple watercolour of Jane on the front and I just love it! Plus it was an absolute steal at £2.99!

Then as a little congrats present from myself I picked a book book that I have heard a lot about and have been wanting since it came out earlier this year- The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton. This book has super good reviews and sounds amazing.

I picked up If I Stay by Gayle Foreman since it was super cheap in Sainsburys and it is meant to be really good and the trailer for the film looks good too :)

It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago and my friend got me one of the coolest books ever! The Jane Austen Guide to Life by Lori Smith. This a little lifestyle/ biography thing but I am really enjoying it :)

So those are the books that I got recently :) Apart from school books I am going to try and stop buying books- which surprisingly is going well so far :) Let me know your recent purchases!

Speak soon,
Jade xx

A Spooky October TBR!

Long time no see! Sorry everyone, the one thing I didn't want to happen happened. I got drowned in school work. But I'm starting to get into a routine so hopefully you will be seeing more of me again. I am not going to do a September wrap-up because I didn't read anything! However I do have quite a big tbr for this month which I may or may not have themed around Halloween :)

First there are 3 books that I need to finish:

• Pamela by Richardson- this my teacher is expecting me to finish due to my foot and mouth disease, and I am really not enjoying this :/
• Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo- re-read
• The Jane Austen Guide to Life by Lori Smith- this was a birthday present and it is awesome :

Then I have a group of books that I really want to read right this very moment! I do not expect to read all these but this is the pile that I will be choosing from this month :)

• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• A collection of Edgar Allen Poe's work
• The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton 
• The Women in White, Wilkie Collins 

So those are the books I am thinking of reading this month, let me know your plans especially if they are spooky ;)

Speak soon,

Jade xx

Carrie's Book Club! (September)

I've got something a little different for you today. A week or so ago I joined Carrie Fletcher's book club when I ordered this month's "reader's toolbox" This is basically a subscription box of bookish things and things to use when you are snuggled up reading. With all the postage and stuff they come to about £20 which I wasn't sure about at first, but now I have the box I personally think it is worth it. With out further ado on with the September box!:

• First off there is a lovely note from Carrie and a ton of purple tissue paper! 

• There is a super pretty bookmark (I love collecting bookmarks, I already have a mug full!)

• 3 candles that smell so nice! I smelling them now trying to work out how they smell; I can't though. They're like flowery maybe vanilla? Its a nice smell, I can tell you that much!

• For when I am curled up this evening reading my book and contemplating this week's episode of Doctor Who; some Rose and Cardamom Hot Cocoa. I like hot chocolate as much as the next girl but I'm not sure about this flavouring. I will tell you my thoughts next month :)

• Finally my favourite part. It is a "This book belongs to ______ Carrie's Book Club" stamp and also an ink pad to use it with. (mines blue). The idea of this is that you stamp it in the front of your books so everyone knows who it belongs to. I love the idea of stamping every single 1 of my books but with over 260 I might have to be a bit selective ;)

I am super happy with everything on this box. Thanks so much to Carrie for doing this it is so cool!! I will hopefully be doing another 1 of these next month :)

Speak soon,

Jade xx

#LittleReadathon Update

Hello! It time for that mid-week update I promised... even if its a little late :) Sorry!

I have been pretty busy this week and now I am completely worn out but I did get some reading in and I still have time to read :)

So far I've read:

19pgs of Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks- surprisingly I don't have any thoughts on this yet.
86pgs of Private Peaceful Michael Morpurgo- this is a reread and I am really enjoying it.

Let me know how you are getting along!

Speak soon,
Jade xx

August Wrap-up

Summer is at an end :( But that means Autumn draws near and Autumn is my favourite season even if it means going back to school :) This has been another successful reading month for me. I read 5 books in August and I thoroughly enjoyed most of them!

Firstly I read Landline by Rainbow Rowell which I completely and utterly adored! It was classic Rainbow but at the same time it was a little different, I found myself so attached to the characters in this book and it made feel so much! As I'm sure you can guess from my gushing I gave it 5 stars!

Next was Throne of Glass by Sarah J Mass. This book was awesome and is another 5 star-er! It was so action packed and Celaena was this bad-ass female protagonist but she was still human and still struggled at points- in fact near the end it nearly killed me to see her the way she was!

Then I read Scarlet the sequel to Cinder by Marissa Meyer. I was completely hooked on Cinder from the 1st page and this one did not disappoint! Scarlet starts right where Cinder left off but with an added storyline and though it took me longer to get into it I was still enthralled by the world and the plot twists and I care so much for the characters too- another 5 stars.

Now we get into everything I read for school, first off was The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. I am looking forward to studying this as I think there is much more to it than I got out of just my first reading of it. This 1 is a little lower at 3 stars.

I also read probably around 100pgs of poetry this month too. Poems written by Wilfred Owen, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Keats and a few others but those were the main ones. So of them I liked some I didn't. For example Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote one of my favourite poem- The Kraken and yet none of his other works I've read stood out to me like that; its a very mixed bag.

Finally this month I put myself through Catcher in the Rye, I'm not going into details now but I did not like this book I gave it 1.5 stars and that is mainly because I appreciate it more than I enjoyed it.

This month was the first time I really had to do set reading for school excluding my GCSE texts. It was the first time I was given a list and was told "read some of these for wider reading" and I found it difficult, Great Gatsby I liked. But with Catcher in the Rye I really had to force myself to get it finished and I have never really had that before. I was an odd experience and one I'm sure I'll have again but I loved most the books I read this month and that's the main thing :) Let me know if you have ever had the same problem and how you sort of overcame it I guess, I'm just wondering if there's some odd trick or something.

Speak soon,
Jade xx