Books
As you can see from my sidebar, I read a lot! Here you can find links to my Storygraph and Goodreads pages, some of my favourites, and hopefully at some point some reviews!
My storygraph profile - This is the website/app I primarily use to keep track of my reading. I log whenever I start a book, update page count/percentage as I go and log when I finish. It presents a whole bunch of stats, you can review and star-rate (complete with handy template), follow your friends/other readers, and best of all, it's not supporting Amazon! Feel free to follow me here!
My goodreads profile - Not really updating this anymore as I've moved to storygraph, however the one advantage it does seem to have over storygraph (unless I've missed it) is the ability to make your own categories and put books on your TBR into these.
Reviews
April 2025
Favourites
A selection of favourites, both past and present:
Nation by Terry Pratchett
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Indian Lake Trilogy by Stephen Graham Jones
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Babel by R. F. Kuang
World War Z by Max Brooks
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
TBR shelf
This is my physical TBR shelf (see picture below) - this small array of books in no way encompasses the dozens, hundreds or even thousands of books that exist on my TBR on storygraph/goodreads/in my head!
Bird Life by Anna Smaill (I got this as a proof and still haven't read it - shame on me! Hopefully soon...)
Uglier Than A Monkey's Armpit by Dr Robert Vanderplank (silly book of insults in different languages my friend gave me for my birthday - more of a 'flick through when feel like it' book so not TBR in the strictest sense, but that's where it lives for now)
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
The book of elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville (I read The City and The City by Miéville this month and really enjoyed it (review forthcoming!) so I had to pick this up secondhand when I was in Dublin last week!
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (I've read this once, back in 2015/2016, so I've been meaning to read it again for ages, and brought it back from my mum's house for that purpose. Next on my TBR.)
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
The Hemlock Cure by Joanne Burn (set in Eyam in the Peak District which is not too far from me)
A Witch Hunt in Whitby by Helen Cox (saving this for when I go to Whitby next. This and the previous one were presents from my mother in law. I'm not sure if they'll be any good, but I'll enjoy reading them for the places where they're set if nothing else!)
The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition by B. R. Burg
She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (this is also hopefully to be read soon. I also bought the sequel on ebook as it was heavily reduced, so hopefully I like it!)
Useful book-related links
bookshop.org - Support independent bookshops! I have mine set to my locak independent bookshop (Juno Books), but you can set it to yours!
bookbub - Set your genre and ebook provider preferences and receive daily emails with free or low-price ebooks that you might be interested in! Shout-out to my mum for this rec, I'm using it to build up my Kindle library.