Hello! I’m going to keep this brief, I have moved over to hosted WordPress and got a new domain. As of today, you can find me at dragonsandwhimsy.co.uk! Please hop on over, say hello, and update any relevant feeds. This one will be retired, though kept incase I ever have need of the space in the future. Thanks for all of your support since my return ..read more

The Weekend Wrap-Up offers a little look at what I’m reading, the new books that came my way, and anything else I may have gotten up to this past week. I will be linking up to Stacking the Shelves, The Sunday Post and It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? and hopping around your blogs a little to see what the community has to share too! My Week I began my past Sunday exhausted because I was up late on Saturday. Yes, I was having trouble getting tired enough to sleep and that is entirely my excuse, but I also found myself unable to stop reading Grady Hendrix’s My Best Frie ..read more

Recently trying to read Elantris I was sure I would love it. Yes, it’s early Brandon Sanderson and a lot of people warn it’s tough going, but I’m a big girl and I love Sanderson! Right? The premise sounds super interesting too, so in I went and 70 pages later, I hadn’t read for 3 days and was having a slight crisis. Do I actually not like Brandon Sanderson? That’s silly, I thought. I loved Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, Rithmatist was a joy, and I had a great time with Mistborn 1-3, of course I like Brandon Sanderson. He’s a master of worldbuilding, his magic systems are unique and the wa ..read more

Yet to Read is the weekly meme where I take a look at books on my shelves (physical and digital) that I haven’t gotten around to reading yet and books on my wishlist that I’ve wanted to add to my shelves for a while. I link these posts up to Can’t Wait Wednesday and Shelf Control! Returning to the Yet to Read series this week (having taken last week off) with a little more Stephen King. I’ve been reading My Best Friend’s Exorcism which is the first horror book I’ve read, in my adult life at least. I did have a dalliance with Goosebumps and Point Horror in my youth! Anywho, if I ..read more

Fashionably late to the party, of course, I thought it’d be worth jumping in and saying hi either way! For those of you who don’t know what Blaugust is by now, I mentioned in a previous Weekend Wrap-Up I would be taking part, although Belghast’s initial post explains it much better. It’s an annual event among the video game blogging circle intended to foster community and get people blogging and interacting a little more. The original point of this event was to blog every day in August. It’s also the time of year when we train our spellchecks that no, it’s not August, it’s Blaugust, I said wha ..read more

The Weekend Wrap-Up offers a little look at what I’m reading, the new books that came my way, and anything else I may have gotten up to this past week. I will be linking up to Stacking the Shelves, The Sunday Post and It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? and hopping around your blogs a little to see what the community has to share too! My Week I spent the first part of my week in a really witchy kinda mood. I was watching lots of Youtube and thinking about reading some books from my pagan/witchcraft shelf, and from there I started planning a trip to the West Country to v ..read more

The Weekend Wrap-Up offers a little look at what I’m reading, the new books that came my way, and anything else I may have gotten up to this past week. I will be linking up to Stacking the Shelves, The Sunday Post and It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? and hopping around your blogs a little to see what the community has to share too! My Week It has been an odd week for me. It’s been so hot, and I guess being on my own and stuck indoors triggered my depression so it’s been tough to get myself reading or doing much of anything. One moment I’m crying over how much “everyo ..read more

Yet to Read is the weekly meme where I take a lot at books on my shelves (physical and digital) that I haven’t gotten around to reading yet and books on my wishlist that I’ve wanted to add to my shelves for a while. I link these posts up to Can’t Wait Wednesday and Shelf Control! From the Shelves I’m not sure I’ve seen anybody talking about Wakenhyrst but to be fair, it released when I was firmly not paying attention the the book world. I grabbed it cheap on Kindle at some point because the premise intrigued the hell out of me. Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver “Something has been l ..read more

Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships. With their vast cargo holds and a crew that could fill a city, the Greatships are the lifeblood of human occupied space, transporting an unimaginable volume – and value – of goods from City, the greatest human orbital, all the way to Tradepoint at the other, to trade for xenoglas with an unknowable alien species. It has always been Marca Nbaro’s dream to achieve the near-impossible: escape her upbringing and venture into space. All it took, to make her way onto the crew of the Greatship Athens was thousands of hours in simul ..read more

The Weekend Wrap-Up offers a little look at what I’m reading, the new books that came my way, and anything else I may have gotten up to this past week. I will be linking up to Stacking the Shelves, The Sunday Post and It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? and hopping around your blogs a little to see what the community has to share too! My Week This week I started working on a new project. I’m going to write a book! It isn’t the book I expected to be writing (my epic fantasy, which is still on the cards) but I’m very excited about it, so I began doing some worldbuilding a ..read more