September Self-Love Sunday

Hello, again dear Readers, I hope this post finds you well and enjoying what this time of year has to offer. In all honesty (a small blog name pun), I have been struggling. There were a blissful few days where I thought things were normalizing or I was getting used to the changes happening around …

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Writing not being prompted Wednesday

Ugh, dear Readers! I am not sure what is happening to me with my inability to write anything from prompt to "decent" blog post to anything really. I find myself in a September creative rut. Therefore I decided to write an observational story about my inability to write a successful Writing Prompt Wednesday.   She …

Genres we lean on

Hello Literary Lovelies, How is September treating you? Today I wanted to discuss genres from those we love above all else to those we turn to in moments of reading slumps. Is there a genre which will always receive the gold medal in your hearts' dearest readers? I have always loved mystery and suspense from …

Fall means…

... never having to ask if it too early to buy Halloween decorations? Are you with me literary lovelies? I feel like quoting Gaston from Beauty and the Beast after the last question.  (Do you know the scene of which I speak?) How are you, dear readers? I am finding my fall to be one …

When your favourite kind of blog posts…

... don't get the love you thought they would. What do you do dear bloggers and readers? I have loved creating blog posts surrounding Who Wore it Best Wednesdays where books battle it out on the literary red carpet to see who will come out the winner. Alas, this summer, they are the posts which …

When writing goes really really well…

Dear Readers, I have always been a Paranoid Polly (my own personal reference) when it comes to, in all honesty, the majority of my life. So when I was awoken in the middle of the night mid-June by a nightmare which made me force myself to wake up and walk around my room before I …

They Still Haunt Me – Part Two

Hello again literary lovelies, I find myself being haunted by past reads. Storylines which are creeping into my dreams long after I've read the last page. Has this ever happened to you? Has there been a book which just wouldn't let you go? I have had books whisper for a reread but it has been …

Where would you go…

... if you could jump into the pages of one of your favourite books? Would you be flying high with dragons? Casting spells with ease? Drinking tea and dancing in Regency England? Scurrying down blacked out streets during The Blitz of WWII? Questing with confidants to save the world?   Or peering through a magnifying glass …

Discussion: What should or shouldn’t be on a book cover?

Dear Readers, A topic has come to my attention which I would like to discuss with you: What does and doesn't belong on a book cover in your opinion? Are you okay with quotes from reviews? If so does it matter if they are from other popular authors or newspapers or other publications forms? Are …

A Few of my Favourites – Authors Edition

Dear Readers, It is becoming a pattern I am afraid, where I find the strength or some creative energy finds me and I write a lovely post only to disappear again. Where do I go? Mostly to become a vegetable in my room binge watching some tv series (currently Midsomer Murders - let's not get …

Self-Love Sundays

Dear Readers, we meet again! How long has it been since we last communicated? TOO LONG! That's how long. I am coming to you this Sunday with a once-a-month Sunday plan to share a little self-love with ourselves. Not the usual conceptual self-love pampering but one with an Honestly Austen twist, let's write something about …

From the perspective of the page

Dearest Readers, For the vast majority of my life, I have been teased for my tendency to provide human characteristics to inanimate objects as well as animals, otherwise known as personification. I am sure I have even dipped my toe into the depths of anthropomorphism, which according to dictionary.com is the: The attribution of human …

I held onto the sound…

Hello, literary lovelies! We find ourselves mid-week and ready for a Writing Prompt Wednesday! I hope you have all been well and enjoy the short story I have for you today! I closed my eyes and held onto the sound, as I tried to grasp the translucent memories of a life I could not remember.   …

For the Love of Prose

Goodreads Synopsis: A house built high on the moor,  A golden age, ended by war,  A house left empty, falling to ruin.  During the Edwardian period, the wealthy Kearleys entertained important guests at their summer home on the moors; enjoying lavish parties showcasing the house and its views of the mountains.  By the 1950s the …

Whose Story? – Chapter 1

You may not know literary lovelies that I not only write this lovely blog for you all, but I have within the last year finished a novel. I have titled it: Whose Story. I would like to put the first chapter on here (a much longer post than my usual) for you all to read …

Literary Friends

With that title, you were worried I was going to go into a spiel about how books are my best friends. Admit it! You did! If not bravo. I am in no way knocking the idea of having a book as a best friend. Books have saved my life (getting me through my depression and …

The Bell Jar – Who Wore it Best

Welcome back to another Wednesday of Who Wore it Best where our book covers walk the literary red carpet to be enjoyed (hopefully) by everyone. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Path has been one book I have been wanting to read for quite some time. I had hoped to have it finished by the last …

Everybody has an addiction – Writing Prompt Wednesday

Consciousness flooded in as those words repeated themselves in my head, "Everybody has an addiction mine just happens to be you." A moment later it dawned on me as my blurry eyes tried to clear the room. The words weren't a broken record in my head but continually came from the mouth of the last …