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What I’d Like To See At YALC 2019

YALC (Young Adult Literature Convention) is the UK’s first young adult book festival. You could say it’s the UK’s equivalent of BookCon and BookExpo which take place in a big city within the US each year. This convention started back in July 2014 with author Malorie Blackman being heavily involved in its creation. Over the years, YALC has managed to bring along best-selling authors such as Cassandra Clare, Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, VE Schwab, Samantha Shannon, Marcus Sedgwick, Patrick Ness and many more, making it one of the most exciting events of the year for book bloggers around the UK. I’ve been travelling down to London for YALC from Scotland every Summer since 2016, so you could say I’ve got a few years of experience attending the event.

YALC is an absolutely wonderful event and you’re always guaranteed to leave with an abundance of new books and friends. However, there are some things that I’d personally like to see in future events that I feel could definitely improve the experience for attendees, and potentially the vendors too.

We finally got the author line up for YALC 2019 this past week (it’s awesome!) so it definitely felt like the perfect time to post this! You can view the schedule here. We really appreciate all the hard work and effort people go into to make this event happen each year, I’m genuinely counting down the days till YALC 2019.

Let’s begin!

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Book Tag | The Greatest Showman

Hello friends,

Today, I’m bringing to you, ‘The Greatest Showman‘ book tag. I was eager to post this tag today specifically as a year ago today, this wonderful masterpiece of a movie hit the big screens. I proceeded to see it six times in the movies and fall completely in love with the soundtrack. It is officially one of my favourite movies and movie soundtracks of all time, so I could not pass up on marking the 1st anniversary of this movie with a fun book tag.

The creator of this tag is NightlyReading. But, I came across it on Victoria‘s blog a few months ago and yes, you guessed it, I have waited till now to post it, just to celebrate the movie’s 1st year in the world.

Now, without further ado, let’s jump right into this. Preferably with the soundtrack blasting in the background.

 

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Kiss, Marry, Kill with BooksNest

Hello friends! It’s time to ask another book blogger to decide the fate of some fictional characters!

Just in case you missed the last post, I’ve recently decided to start this new feature on my blog as a bit of fun. I used to enjoy watching booktuber’s Kiss, Marry, Kill tags, where they would write out a collection of fictional characters and put them in a jar. They would pull three out at a time and decide which of the three they’d kiss, marry and kill. How terribly morbid!

Each week I will feature a different blogger/bookworm to let us know what their choices would be and why. After all, who doesn’t love the pressure of choosing the fates of their favourite fictional characters?

Last time, WhatVickyRead was featured and she definitely had to make some tough decisions. You can read that post here.

This week, the lovely Beth from BooksNest will be taking part, and we’ll get to see which fictional characters she would choose to kiss, marry or kill. *insert evil laugh here*

Below you can see my magical plastic cup of fictional characters (unfortunately I had no aesthetically pleasing mason jars at hand) which I will choose twelve sets of three characters out of for every feature. This cup has a mix of female and male characters, and of course, some villains as well.

Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that this feature is only for fun!

 ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* Magical cup of fictional characters ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

Without any further ado, let’s get to the fun stuff.

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Kiss, Marry, Kill with WhatVickyRead

I’ve decided to start this new feature on my blog as a bit of fun. I used to enjoy watching booktuber’s Kiss, Marry, Kill tags, where they would write out a collection of fictional characters and put them in a jar. They would pull three out at a time and decide which of the three they’d kiss, marry and kill. How terribly morbid, I know.

Each week I will feature a different blogger and bookworm to let us know which their choices would be and why. After all, who doesn’t love the pressure of choosing the fates of their favourite fictional characters?

Below you can see my magical plastic cup of fictional characters (unfortunately I had no aesthetically pleasing mason jars at hand) which I will choose twelve sets of three characters out of for every feature. This cup has a mix of female and male characters, and of course, some villains as well.

Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that this feature is only for fun!

 ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* Magical cup of fictional characters ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

 

The first blogger to take part in this feature is the lovely Vicky from WhatVickyRead who is a wonderful friend of mine and who was more than ready to decide what characters she would kiss, marry and kill. I could think of no one better to start off this new feature!

Let’s do this!

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The ‘Get to Know Me Uncomfortably Well’ Tag

 

I thought that this would be an interesting tag to do as my first post so you guys can get to know me a lot more. I found quite a few variations of this tag floating around Tumblr, so I just grabbed a few questions from each one and viola! We have ourselves a tag. I did originally see this tag done by the lovely people over on the PaperRiot blog. So credit to them for the idea!

Lets get into this, I hope you guys enjoy getting to know me uncomfortably well.

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