Books

Book Review: Sunset over the Cherry Orchard

Title: Sunset over the Cherry Orchard Author: Jo Thomas Genre: Contemporary Publisher: Headline Date of Publication: 2018 Format: Kindle (owned) My rating: 5/5 🌟 About the book: (From Goodreads) It's time for Beti Winter to dance to her own beat.  After three failed engagements Beti is in desperate need of a fresh start. What better… Continue reading Book Review: Sunset over the Cherry Orchard

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Cosy Reads Recommendations!

Over the last two months I've been mentioning the spread of Covid-19 through China, which is where I currently reside. I spent nearly two months mostly shut in my apartment, which has been tough, but necessary. Now China is seeing a huge decrease in cases, and we have returned to work two days a week.… Continue reading Cosy Reads Recommendations!

Books, ESL

10 Children’s Book Recommendations for EFL teachers!

As an EFL Teacher (English as a Foreign Language) in China, I get the privilege of working with young children and as well as fine tuning their English, I love to instil in them a love of reading! Children are flexible creatures, and I was surprised and delighted to discover that if you give them… Continue reading 10 Children’s Book Recommendations for EFL teachers!

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February Monthly Review!

February gave us a whole extra day to read this year thanks to it being Leap Year, and I read so much compared to usual! Again, I’ve been holed up in my apartment due to the quarantine measures in place to stop the spread of Covid-19, with little to do except general household cleaning and… Continue reading February Monthly Review!

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Book Review: Severance

Book cover photo from Goodreads I picked this up (well, downloaded it onto my kindle anyway) after seeing it on a Booktube channel that I enjoy watching. She said that zombie novels weren’t really her thing, but that she really enjoyed Severance. Neither are zombie novels my sort of book, but her description of it… Continue reading Book Review: Severance

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My 2020 Big Book Challenge!

Big books worry me. They don’t scare me. But they definitely intimidate me! However, this year, instead of just reading mindlessly, trying to read as many books as I can, I want to read novels that I’ve put off for years purely because their size has made me nervous! Here, I am classifying anything over… Continue reading My 2020 Big Book Challenge!