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22Oct 2023 by Luke Harkness 2 Comments

The Top 10 Most-Rated Books on Goodreads – number two might surprise you!

Goodreads has become the biggest platform on the internet for us book lovers to give our honest reviews of books and also to go and find brand new books to pick up. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. One of the biggest features that sets Goodreads apart early on is its simple “out of five” rating system that gives an obvious average rating for each book based on everyone’s thoughts. As well as showing you what the average rating is, it also shows you how many people in total have…

07Oct 2023 by Luke Harkness 4 Comments

The Top 5 Most-Read Articles on my blog in September 2023

Features, Monthly Round Ups

Every month, I compile a list of the top five articles that I posted from the previous month in order of the most to least read. Therefore, the start of October has rolled around and so I've headed over to my Google Analytics and had a quick look to see what you lot had been reading. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. I do this every month for several reasons. The first is simply to give you lot an idea as to which articles have been the most read over…

01Oct 2023 by Luke Harkness No Comments

The Four books I read in September 2023

Features, Monthly Round Ups

This month was another quiet month as I was once again physically reading a lot of the books instead of listening to them (which means I don't get through them quite as quickly). However, there's been one book this month that may just shoot to my list of some of the best books I've ever read. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products via the links given below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the product. So, what is this article? At the end of every month, I have a look back through all of the books I've read that month and provide…

30Sep 2023 by Luke Harkness 1 Comment

Chapters book tag – all the chapter questions answered

Blog Tags, Features

I was kindly tagged by @amyreadslit on Instagram to take part in this bookish tag. I often forget about these, but I was determined to take part this time. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. This one was an easy enough tag to take part in as it didn't require me to run off and curate a big selection of specific books from my bookshelf for the picture. I just picked a random selection including the one book I do specifically mention. The tag itself asks questions about chapters in…

19Sep 2023 by Luke Harkness 2 Comments

What makes a really good thriller?

Features, Recommendations, Tips and Tricks

The thriller genre is one of the best-selling genres of books out there. It is, without a doubt, a genre of book that gets most people talking and has become a space where many authors find a lot of success. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. There are some of the massive hitters in the genre such as Lisa Jewell, Lee Child, James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Anthony Horowitz, David Baldacci, John Grisham etc (apologies if I’ve missed out any big names you can think of). These are the authors who…

11Sep 2023 by Luke Harkness No Comments

How to make sure you’re always motivated to write

Features, Tips and Tricks

I have owned and been writing on a blog for well over two years now and it has meant that I've had to learn how to keep productively writing without feeling burned out. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. Yes, I'm not sitting here and writing some huge essay or writing out a novel of hundreds of pages but it does require me multiple times a week to build up the motivation to pull out my laptop or iPad and start writing. Therefore, I thought I'd use some of the…

03Sep 2023 by Luke Harkness No Comments

The Three Books I Read in August And Why I Read So Few

Features, Monthly Round Ups

So August was a very busy month for me, just not when it came to reading. I managed to finish three books throughout the month, probably the least amount of books I've finished in a month for quite some time. Don't get me wrong, they were nearly all great books, but it's still not as many as a book blogger should be reading (don't worry, I don't actually set myself any unachievable goals). But there's a good reason why, I was on holiday! Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. Yeah,…

08Aug 2023 by Luke Harkness No Comments

The Most Read Articles on My Blog in July 2023

Features, Monthly Round Ups

Welcome back to another monthly article where I round the top five most-read articles I wrote in the previous month. As always, I organise these from least most-read to most most-read. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. If you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. I do this for a couple of reasons: mostly as advice for others who are looking for ideas on what they can be posting about and specifically if you're a book blogger, which books are popular. Another reason is that it's always good fun to be able to look back and see which articles did well for…

31Jul 2023 by Luke Harkness No Comments

The Four Books I Read in July 2023 and what I thought about them

Features, Monthly Round Ups

Well, it looks like July wasn't a particularly productive month for me then! I only managed to read four books throughout this month - I'm not too sure why I read so few but there we go. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. There was quite an interesting selection of different books however which makes up for it. Plus one of the books I read did end up featuring on my recent list of the best books I've read so far this year. So as always, what I've done is compile the four books…

26Jul 2023 by Luke Harkness 3 Comments

The Best Books I’ve Read So Far This Year (2023)

Features, Recommendations

I put out a poll on my Twitter the other day asking if people would be interested in reading an article about the book best books I’ve read so far this year. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means that if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the products. Obviously, with most of my followers being bookish folk and me offering them a free list of good books, most of them came back and overwhelmingly voted “f*ck yeah”. So then I had to go out and have a look at my StoryGraph and have a look at the books I’d rated…

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