Welcome to Wyrd and Wonder

If you follow me over on twitter, you may have seen me tweeting about Wyrd and Wonder coming along this May. Now... it's May! So let's kick this thing off! Wyrd and Wonder is a fantasy event created by Imyril, Lisa and Jorie – "a quest to celebrate the best fantasy books, movies, audiobooks, games,…

Tough Travelling: Mothers

Welcome to this month's Tough Travelling with The Fantasy Hive and Diana Wynne Jones' The Tough Guide to Fantasyland. Each month, we look at a different fantasy trope and explore our favourite examples in fantasy literature. This month, to celebrate (belatedly) Mother's Day (stop panicking, the UK version) we're looking at Mothers. Missing Mothers is itself a…

Tough Travelling: Apprentices

It's another new month, and so it's time for another new Tough Travelling. If you're new to my blog, around the first of each month we travel through fantasy tropes with The Fantasy Hive; listing our favourite examples of each trope as outlined by Diana Wynne Jones' The Tough Guide to Fantasyland. This month, we're looking…

The Liebster Award

I've been nominated for a blogging award! Thank you so much Chaz from Life of Chaz for nominating me; I think. We'll see if I'm still thanking you by the end when I'm trying to come up with only ten tags D: Firstly, what is The Liebster Award? So it's an actual award thing with…

Tough Travelling: Shapeshifters

Welcome to this month's Tough Travelling! Every month, we travel through fantasy with The Fantasy Hive, looking at a different fantasy trope as outlined by Diana Wynne Jones in her Tough Guide to Fantasyland. This month, it's shapeshifters... “Shapeshifting is frequent among both WERES and MAGIC USERS. The usual form taken is that of a wolf,…

The Subjective Chaos (Kind Of) Awards

19|01|18 Update The Bloggers Seven have met with their first challenge since announcing their quest; lo and behold a book had been placed in the wrong category! After a brief period of wailing into the void, our brave heroes searched within themselves for the truth; they would have to move the book to a new…

Tough Travelling: Elves

Welcome to another month's Tough Travelling, this time with Elves! Tough Travelling is a monthly feature, which has a new home over at the (very swish) Fantasy Hive (hence the new graphic...) Shall we see what The Tough Guide to Fantasyland has to say on the subject? “Elves claim to have been the first people in Fantasyland.…

Tough Travelling: Mentors and Snarky Sidekicks

Hello everyone and welcome to Tough Travelling! Every month, we go on our travels through Fantasyland with Fantasy Faction, exploring a different fantasy trope as defined by Dianna Wynne Jones in her Tough Guide to Fantasyland. I managed to miss November's theme, Mentors, and I'm a bit late with this month's theme, Snarky Sidekicks; and so…

State of my Arc: Dec Issue

Happy Best Month of the Year guys! For any newcomers, State of the ARC is a monthly meme thingy hosted by Avalinah's Books. We motivate and support each other to get through those lengthy TBRs (To Be Read piles) and knock out those reviews. You can catch up with how our host is doing here, or…

State of my Arc: Nov Issue

HOW has another month gone by already? Oh my days... State Of The Arc is a monthly meme hosted by Avalinah's Books (catch up with how she's doing here). The idea behind it is to motivate and support each other in getting through our TBR piles. We even have a Goodreads group - ARCs Anonymous!…