Showcase Sunday #25

It's Sunday again so we all know that it's time for Showcase Sunday. It's a lovely weekly meme hosted by Vicki over at Books, Biscuits and Tea, and it allows us to show off all the lovely buys this week. I love this meme as it gives a chance for us to show and browse so many books! The plan was to not buy any books this week... but that completely failed.

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus/ Happy St David's Day!

Just a quick post to wish everyone a Happy St David's Day!

Dim on post fach i ddymuno pawb Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!

St David's Day is a Welsh national day of celebration remembering the death of the patron Saint of Wales, St David. To find out more about the holiday, click here :).

xxx

Feature & Follow #19

So here's Fridays meme: Feature and Follow hosted over at Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The aim of the blog is to gain new followers! :)

How to participate:

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

What sets this Hop apart from others, is the Feature. Each week they will showcase a Featured Blogger, from all different genres and areas. Just remember it is required, if you participate, to follow the Features and you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) as a courtesy.

                         Featured Blogs: Megz Mad Readz & Kathryn's Inbox


Q: Confess your blogger sins! Is there anything as a newbie blogger that you've done, that as you gained more experience you were like -- oops?

Definitely accepting any and every review request that came my way. I'm slowly learning to decline the ones which aren't in my genres etc. Another habit is getting far too click-happy on Net Galley. I'm weaning myself off of this habit right now!

REVIEW: 'Guardians of the Grimoire' - Natasha Slight **GIVEAWAY**

Guardians of the Grimoire Book Tour hosted by CBL Book Tours

Synopsis:

Rumors have spread among the immortals of a book that controls all the magic in both the human and spirit worlds. So what is the Spirit Mother to do when Kaël, a corrupt spirit, attempts to steal the Grimoire from her temple?

With no other option, she instructs Gaïa, a benevolent spirit, to hide the Grimoire in the human realm and to train three young girls in becoming the new guardians. Kerani, Tiluvia, and Cesca are awakened to their destinies, and thrust into a perilous journey as they race to Gaïa’s island. Accompanied by the Kal’rana sisters, the girls discover the magic that lies dormant within them. But fate plays a cruel twist on them, as their magical abilities are unleashed before they are ready, and disastrous consequences follow suit.

In a land shrouded in magic, and filled with as many friends as there are foes, will the girls be able to fulfill their destinies? Or will the balance of magic be thrown into chaos?

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Review: 4/5*

Harry Potter Moment of the Week #2

This is a meme hosted by me here at my blog :).The aim of this meme is to share with fellow bloggers a character, spell, chapter, object or quote from the books/ films/ J. K. Rowling herself or anything Potter related! I will be picking a topic within HP to focus on per week and then if anyone wants to take part feel free! This weeks is:

Character of the Week

Neville Longbottom

Not only does this character change so much throughout the series, but look at the transformation of the actor! Not only did Neville have the potential to be the one which Voldemort was after, but also had to put up with the constant put downs of teachers at Hogwarts and other students. Despite his clumsiness his loyalty to his friends and Hogwarts never sways. He is finally given his chance to shine in the final book - he leads the student rebellion against the Carrows and Snape but also beheads Nagini, one of Voldemort's horcruxes. Go Neville!

“I'll join you when Hell freezes over," said Neville. "Dumbledore's Army!" he shouted, and there was an answering cheer from the crowd, whom Voldemort's Silencing Charms seemed unable to hold.” 
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Top Ten Tuesday #6

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at the wonderful blog; Broke and Bookish. This weeks Top Ten is our top ten auto-buy authors! I don't have many auto-buys so mine is literally limited to 3!

3. J. K. Rowling

2. Kelley Armstrong

1. J. R. Ward

I'm just starting to break out but I've yet to find another author which I would just auto-buy if I saw it. It's gonna take a lot to knock these three off their pedestals!

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Top 5 Sundays #1

I've just stumbled across this new meme and thought I'd give it a go :). It's a top 5 Sunday meme hosted over at Larissa's Life. Here's her rules for taking part:

Every Sunday I will post a TOP 5 list on the blog. It can be about anything and every week I'll have a new theme {You can vote on next week’s theme on my left sidebar!} and I will ad the Mr.Linky bellow the post so you can do a list with the theme and add you link to it.

Rules:

1. Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.
2. Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
3. Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it bellow)
4. After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.
5. If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)
   
   
   
   
   This weeks Top 5: Favorite Female Book Characters in no particular order.