Okay, so life’s been keeping me busy, hence why I’m not blog-hopping as often lately or tweeting much outside of my ICYMI archival tweets 🙁 But in the meantime, here’s what has been going on at my blog for the month of November:

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1. Books reviewed this month include: Mur Lafferty’s Six Wakes (review), Dan Simmons’ Hyperion (review), and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Beren and Luthien (review). You can check out all the books I’ve reviewed recently in the book review tag.
2. For this month’s So You Want to Read…, I featured German poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke. You can check out that post over here. For all my previous recommendations under this feature, check out this tag.
3. I participated in Sci-Fi Month hosted by Rinn Reads! You can check out all of my posts related to that event over at this tag. I had a lot of fun this year 🙂
4. I decided to update my list of books that left me misty-eyed. What books left you on the verge of tears?
5. As promised some time ago, I hosted a giveaway earlier this month on my blog, giving away two signed copies of my debut poetry collection, Shall I Be a Poet Instead? Thank you to everyone who entered! I will be holding another giveaway, but I reckon it’ll be after the Christmas holidays as next month is going to be a bit insane. Meanwhile, if you’re interested in picking up a copy, you can do so at the following websites: Lulu, Amazon, B&N, and the Book Depository
6. So because of all the craziness that’s been going on at my end, the blog will be going on hiatus for a few weeks next month as I scramble to deal with everything. More news about it tomorrow.

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And that’s more of less it for this month! Wishing everyone a lovely December 🙂

Time is flying way to fast, I say, lol. October’s always been my favourite month, and not just because it was my birthday 😛 I love that autumn is in full swing, which thank goodness it is because at the end of September/start of October it was still summer over here >_< But anywho, here's what has been going on at my blog for the month of October:

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1. Books reviewed this month include: Robert Rotenberg’s Stray Bullets (review), George R.R. Martin’s The Ice Dragon (review), and Simon van Booy’s Father’s Day (review). You can check out all the books I’ve reviewed recently in the book review tag.
2. I also reviewed three comics this month: Jessica Jones: Uncaged! (Vol. 1) (review), Daredevil (Vol. 1) (review), and Heart and Brain: Body Language (review). You can read all of my comic book reviews in this tag.
3. For this month’s So You Want to Read…, I focused on English speculative fiction author Robert Shearman. You can check out that post over here. For all my previous recommendations under this feature, check out this tag.
4. Earlier this month was also my birthday and so as I’ve done every year for the past few years I hosted a wee book giveaway 🙂

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And that’s more of less it for this month! Be on a lookout as next month I will be participating in the annual Sci-Fi Month hosted by Rinn Reads 🙂 Happy November everyone–and a Happy Hallowe’en if you’re celebrating/going out tonight! 🙂

I know I say it every month, but seriously, where has September gone? Granted, it’s been a rather busy month and deadlines are just flinging themselves at me so there’s not much of a breather there…Anywho, here’s what has been going on at my blog for this month:

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1. Books reviewed this month include: Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter (review), Mhairi McFarlane’s Here’s Looking at You (review), and Kevin Kwan’s China Rich Girlfriend (review). You can check out all the books I’ve reviewed recently in the book review tag.
2. For this month’s So You Want to Read…, I focused on English author Ian McEwan. You can check out that post over here. For all my previous recommendations under this feature, check out this tag.
3. Earlier this month I also posted my summer reading wrap-up. See what my favourite reads this summer were! 🙂
4. For this month I posted one movie review: Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (review). You can check out all of the past movies I’ve watched and reviewed in this tag.
5. I also had another unboxing post of sorts, my first Foxy Fix No. 2 🙂 You can read all of the previous unboxings and happy mail of all sorts at this tag.
6. Earlier this week I also did a non-book feature, talking about planners and asking how you organise yourself. You can check out that post over here.
7. Also, just a heads up but I’m hosting a giveaway for my poetry book, Shall I Be a Poet Instead?, over at Goodreads 😉 You can find out more about this debut projet over at this blog post 🙂

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And that’s about it for the month of September! Until next time…Wishing everyone a lovely October 🙂

And here we are, at the end of summer. Not that it’s been much of a summer on my end, in that I was working the whole summer but also in that the weather on my end has been a lot cooler (not that I’m complaining! It was disgustingly humid in previous years). Anyhow, what has been going on at my blog for the month of August…

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1. Books reviewed this month include: Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book (review), Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Of Love and Other Demons (review), and Georgette Heyer’s The Quiet Gentleman (review). You can check out all the books I’ve reviewed recently in the book review tag.
2. No ARCs were reviewed this month! You can check out all of the ARCs I’ve read and reviewed to date in this tag.
3. For this month’s So You Want to Read…, I focused on (surprise, surprise) Latin American author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. You can check out that post over here. For all my previous recommendations under this feature, check out this tag.
4. I also posted a couple of movie reviews (*le gasp*): Captain America: Civil War (review), Logan (review), and John Wick: Chapter Two (review). You can check out all of the past movies I’ve watched and reviewed in this tag.
5. Another month, another unboxing (don’t think this will be a regular thing as I’ve got nothing slated for next month, but it’s a nice change of pace). Earlier I previewed my July subscription to Stickii Club; you can see all the pretty over at this post. For previous subscription boxes I’ve featured here, please see this tag.

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By the way, I’m a little miffed that Photobucket changed their policy (by the looks of it–didn’t bother logging in over there) regarding linking out, so now a lot of my old posts feature the ugly Photobucket signage and I’m too arsed to bother going back and seeing what needs to be reuploaded right now *shrugs* So yes, apologies if you do run across it quite a bit–definitely there should be a lack of it in the recent posts.

Anyhow, wishing you all a lovely September and a great long weekend! 🙂

You know, I swear I just look at my work schedule and after a few shifts I realise it’s the end of the month…So here we are at the end of July 😛 Here’s what has been going on at my blog for this month:

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1. Books reviewed this month include: Einar Már Guðmundsson’s On the Point of Erupting (review), Robert Harris’ Conclave (review), and Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (review). You can check out all the books I’ve reviewed recently in the book review tag.
2. No ARCs were reviewed this month! You can check out all of the ARCs I’ve read and reviewed to date in this tag.
3. For this month’s So You Want to Read…, I focused on Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca. You can check out that post over here. For all my previous recommendations under this feature, check out this tag.
4. For the rest of the month I featured photos from my holiday to Iceland and Denmark back in the end of April/early May (omg at long last, eh? Only took me how many months to finally get around to doing that >_<). Anyhow you can check out all my photos from my trip over at the Travel category 🙂
5. I also caved in and subscribed to the June edition of the Paper Panduh subscription box. You can see my unboxing photos over here. You can read all of the previous boxes I’ve unboxed at this tag
6. And on a final note, my first poetry collection, Shall I Be a Poet Instead?, is available now! I’ve been working on this project for a good part of this year so it’s nice to finally be able to share some of my work with the world 🙂 More information about my project and where to get a copy can be found at this post 🙂 Happy reading!

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And that’s about it for the month of July! Where is the season going? Happy August, and enjoy the rest of your week 🙂