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Hello bookaholics!! 📚📚Following my previous post about all the things I look for in an audiobook that make the format tr...
27/09/2022

Hello bookaholics!! 📚📚

Following my previous post about all the things I look for in an audiobook that make the format truly special (if you’ve missed that post, just go to my profile and look a couple of posts back 😉), I bring you some audiobook recommendations 😊

All of these are books I really liked and would absolutely recommend on their own. Some are true favourites of mine, others didn’t quite get there. What do they all have in common? In all of them, I believe the audiobook format enhances the reading experience and adds something truly special and rewarding 💕

Narrated by the author:
- We Should All Be Feminists — an extraordinary little book and ultrafast read, the audiobook is only about 45 minutes long!
- This Is Going to Hurt — also a favourite (I even have a review up in my profile), and Adam Kay’s voice adds a level of rawness and pain that really resonated with me
- Milk & Honey — poetry is really meant to be recited, isn’t it?
- Born a Crime — again, memoirs are just better through the voice of the author

Narrated by a famous actor:
- The Jane Austen Society — Richard Armitage has one of the sexiest voices, and I’ll just fight anyone who disagrees 😂

Mixed media:
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series
- Sadie
Both in podcast format and featuring a full cast of voice actors, these are just better in audiobook 😊

Special effects:
- The Bad Beginning — the narration is accompanied by sound effects that bring the story to life for kids and adults who are kids at heart! Features a full cast
- Letters from Father Christmas — this is just a gem of a book, and the narration brings the North Pole to life!

I have more books I’d like to talk about, and I’m sure I’ll be adding some more to the list as I discover them, so this is a post I plan on revisiting in the future!
Let me know if you liked it and would like to see some more recs in the future! Also, if you have some recs for me, I’m always looking to expand my TBR 😜

Hello bookaholics!! 📚📚REVIEW TIME - Spoiler Alert by Olivia DadeRating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️This was not my first Olivia Dade book, wh...
20/09/2022

Hello bookaholics!! 📚📚

REVIEW TIME - Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

This was not my first Olivia Dade book, which is probably why I’m a bit more willing to give the author and this series a bit more of a chance, because this reading experience wasn’t that great.

Olivia Dade writes body-positive romances with oversized female protagonists, and she does this well. The rep is fantastic, and the commentary on the prevailing culture of fat/body-shaming is on point, as is the calling out of the assumption that beauty and intelligence are mutually exclusive.
Also, the premise of the book - devoted fan who writes fan fiction goes on a date with the celebrity who impersonates one of her favourite characters and who is writing fanfics of his own - sounded right up my nerdy alley!

Unfortunately, there were a lot of things I didn’t really enjoy:
- the tone of the writing was too parodying (is this even a word?!), both of GoT and fandom in general. I think it was a loving sort of parody, but it was too ridiculous and unbelievable, and ended up reducing the stakes of the whole thing for me. I couldn’t take the story or the characters seriously 🤷🏻‍♀️
- at the end of every chapter there’s an excerpt of either one of the previous DM conversations between the two main characters, one of their fanfics or one of the actor’s previous film scripts. I felt that the DM conversations added to the plot and were interesting to read, but the other two were cringy and weird and completely unnecessary. They added to the ridiculousness of the whole book.
- I didn’t feel the chemistry or sexual tension between the two main characters at all. I get that they already knew each other pretty well in the fanfic world, but in the real world it all happened too suddenly. Also, it seems like they have great communication on the surface, but there’s this a big, stupid, unnecessary secret that almost ruins everything, just to create “drama”.
- every single one of the parents depicted in this book was AWFUL! What’s up with that?!
- I didn’t vibe with the writing style in general.

I still have All the Feels here at home, so here’s to hoping it is MUCH better 🤞🏼

Hello bookaholics!! 📚📚As you may know, I read A LOT of audiobooks. For me, they are an excellent way of getting to some ...
16/09/2022

Hello bookaholics!! 📚📚

As you may know, I read A LOT of audiobooks. For me, they are an excellent way of getting to some books that I’m super interested in reading, but that maybe I wouldn’t pick up otherwise, or at least not as soon. They’re also great to use time that would otherwise be “wasted”, like when driving to work or doing some chores at home.

Over time, I’ve been asked some questions about audiobooks and some people suggesting I should do a post on them. Well… I seem to have finally gotten the courage to do so! 😉

I hope this little guide helps you to start using this format more and know what fun things to look for!

I’m planning some other things on this theme, but let me know in the comments if there’s something specific you’d like to know about audiobooks!

Have a great weekend and happy reading! 😘😘

Hello bookaholics!! 📚📚I’m thinking about making some changes here on my little corner of the internet, and the first one...
11/09/2022

Hello bookaholics!! 📚📚

I’m thinking about making some changes here on my little corner of the internet, and the first one is changing my profile picture (which I did yesterday). Let’s call it a “rebranding” of sorts 😉

I’d had the same profile picture for over 3 years now! 😱 So I believe it’s going to be difficult for you to associate this new logo with me at first, trust me, for a while it’s going to be very weird for me too! 😅😅

Anyway, I hope you all stick around to see what other things I have planned 😉

Hello bookaholics!! 📚📚•🇬🇧 Unfortunately my mini-holidays are over 😢 So it will be mostly business as usual from now on. ...
15/07/2021

Hello bookaholics!! 📚📚
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🇬🇧 Unfortunately my mini-holidays are over 😢 So it will be mostly business as usual from now on. But I had such a good time!! 😍 Portugal is definitely a gorgeous country 🤩🤩
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🇵🇹 Infelizmente as minhas mini-férias já acabaram 😢 Por isso a partir de agora vou voltar mais ou menos às minhas publicações habituais. Mas foram uns dias tão bons!! 😍 Portugal é definitivamente um país lindíssimo 🤩🤩
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