Book Review: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Okay, so I was a bit late to this bandwagon… I was looking through my book collection and kindle library trying to decide what to read next, and nothing was appealing to me so I thought that maybe that meant that it was time to try something completely different to my usual tastes. Crazy Rich […]

Book Review: Keeper Of The Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger

How is everybody’s quarantine going? I’m lucky (depending on how you see it) and I still get to go out to work most days as I am a front line worker in a hospital, so my reading hasn’t increased so much as I’m sure a lot of other people’s has. I decided that I wanted […]

Book Review: On The Other Side – Carrie Hope Fletcher

Recently, at my work people have been bringing in their read books and leaving them in the staff room for anyone to take. Until a few days ago, nothing had really appealed to me. Among the things that have made an appearance has been the entire Fifty Shades trilogy if that gives you an idea […]

Book Review: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

I had absolutely no idea what this book was about when I started reading it. I’d heard some very vague synopses that kind of didn’t sum the book up at all, but I’d heard nearly all positive reviews so I gave it a go. The Raven Boys follows Blue, a sixteen year old who is […]

Book Review: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

This book is the sequel to Six of Crows and the final book in the Six of Crows duology. To read my thoughts on Six of Crows, you can read my spoiler-free review. Crooked Kingdom picks up pretty much where Six of Crows left off. The gang are on a mission both to claim their […]

Book Review: Six Of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Six Of Crows is a multi-perspective fantasy story set in the Grishaverse. It follows a group of six young outcasts as they set out to smuggle a prisoner out of jail who has invented a drug which massively enhances the powers of Grisha, but is extremely addictive. Each of the six has their own reason […]

Coming together

For a while now, I’ve been trying to keep up with two blogs and failing miserably. My other blog started as a lifestyle blog but over time has become almost entirely a book blog. My love of books and reading is probably around equal to my love of crochet and knitting. And both fill me […]

Sneak peak: Amigurumi Teddy Bear

I’m so excited to be able to share a picture of my first ever amigurumi design. I’m so proud of how this has turned out – even if I did run out of yarn before crocheting its second ear 😅. I’m still working on the written pattern. I want it to be as easy to […]

What am I working on right now?

So, for a while now I’ve really wanted to design my own amigurumi pattern. I’ve been messing around trying to make something I’m happy with for probably over a year. I think the problem is that I’ve been trying to be an overachiever and design something complicated and not really getting anywhere because I can’t […]

Tutorial: How to Double Crochet

In UK terminology this is called the double crochet, in US terminology it’s single crochet. Either way, learn to do this and you will officially be able to say that you know how to crochet. And even better, all crochet stitches are built on from a double crochet so it’s pretty easy to progress from […]