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Hello again everyone! Today I’m bringing you the first in my special book month posts. Enjoy! As you may or may not be aware, today is World Book Day, a global event celebrating the wide variety of wonderful books and stories that we are privileged to have in this world. From what I’ve seen and experienced of the campaign, it generally aims to encourage more children to read books, with many schools allowing pupils to dress up as their favourite characters from their favourite books. As a lover of reading, I am 100% behind the idea of a worldwide celebration of books, and of encouraging more people, be they children or adults, to sit down and read. In this age of smartphones, tablets, and social media, it is becoming increasingly harder to engage people, particularly young people, with the idea of reading. Therefore, I believe that this is a fantastic idea to show that there is more to the world than digital technology, and that reading can still be such a remarkable, and ...

Somehow, we are already in March and 2016 is going by so quickly. What this does mean is that it is time for me to start a new series of posts. The theme, as you probably know already, will be book reviews.   Today’s post is simply to introduce you to the sorts of things that this month’s posts will be about. Starting next week, each Wednesday post will be a book review. In order to give you as few spoilers about them as possible, I have chosen to avoid the conventional book review format of discussing the plot, characters, setting etc. Instead, I will be talking about between five and ten of my favourite things about each book. Hopefully, this will be enough information to tell you my own feelings about them whilst at the same time making you want to read the books yourself, all without giving away too much about the plots of each book. I am very happy with the four I have chosen to review as part of this series, and they are all quite different from one another, in one ...