For Irish Book Week 2021, I wanted to shine a light on independent bookstores that you can support this year, and beyond, in Tipperary. Being a Tipperary native myself, I started every Saturday morning of my childhood in my favourite bookstore in Cashel. Over the months and years of stopping by, I grew to know [...]
You have no idea how happy (and grateful) I was to see a Kindle gift card surface in my emails the morning of my birthday. I am lover of all books, including physical copies, but over the past year or so I made the decision to download the majority of my reading material. Physical copies [...]
Paperback, 410 pages Published June 6th, 2019 by Hachette Books Ireland Genre: Contemporary, Fiction, Fantasy My Rating: 4/5 Synopsis "Erin is about to turn 30 and her life is definitely not where she thought it would be. She hates her job, she's jealous of her perfect flatmate - and she has just called off her [...]
Hardback, 228 pages Published June 2nd, 2015 by Atria/Keywords Press Genre: Biography, Humour, Entertainment. My Rating: 4/5 Synopsis “A one-woman media phenomenon and a leading YouTube influencer takes readers behind the camera, and deep inside her world. Justine Ezarik has been tech-obsessed since unboxing her family’s first Apple computer. By sixth grade she had built [...]
Hardback, 243 pages Published September 27th, 2018 by Penguin Ireland Genre: Autobiography, Music, Entertainment. My Rating: 4/5 Synopsis “Nathan Carter has become Ireland's biggest country music star. He is heralded by many as reviving the country music genre and bringing it into the mainstream. He has sold out venues across the UK and Ireland, has [...]
With my reading and book reviews lacking a little recently, I scoured the internet in the hope of finding a bookish prompt and the one I really loved was the 'My Reading Habits' book tag. I found it interesting and I thought you might too! I quickly took down the questions, answered them and here [...]
Being a bookworm can be seriously consuming, emotionally draining and sometimes a little expensive, but you wouldn't have it any other way... Here's my take on life as a Bookaholic. 1. Loosing hours, weeks, maybe even days in a bookstore. 2. You love that new book smell more than anything. 3. You hyperventilate at the [...]
Synopsis Grace and Tippi are twins – conjoined twins. And their lives are about to change. No longer able to afford homeschooling, they must venture into the world – a world of stares, sneers and cruelty. Will they find more than that at school? Can they find real friends? And what about love? But what neither Grace [...]
First published in 2015, Sophie Kinsella of the Shopaholic series fame embarked on her Young Adult novel journey with Finding Audrey. Although I was excited at the prospects of this book, I have to admit I was weary of it becoming a tale of girl meets boy and all her life troubles are miraculously "fixed" as [...]
Hardback, 352 pages Published November 17th, 2016 by Penguin Books Ltd Genre: Young Adult Contemporary, Fiction. Point Of View: First Person Limited (Penny) My Rating: 4/5 Synopsis As Penny starts the school year she's ready to face the world - alone. Noah has gone off the radar after ending his world tour early and no [...]
