I’m Charlotte: school librarian, bookworm, theatre nerd, knowledge collector, and exceptionally average.
Here you’ll find me writing mostly about books, films, and theatre, particularly LGBTQ+ ones!
Fleabag – National Theatre Live (Review)
I feel like I was a bit late to the Fleabag party. I knew it existed, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge was a name I was seeing everywhere, but I didnāt watch it - not even for any particular reason, but it was just one of those things that passed me by. However, when one of...
Creator Spotlight #1: Joely Dean Illustration
Without designers and creators, the world would be really dull. We wouldnāt have buildings, art, fashionā¦ or anything, really! The same goes for the internet, small businesses, and blogs. Without designers to give things their own unique look, everything would look...
What’s In My Audible Library (October 2019)
Arenāt audiobooks just great? You can consume all sorts of stories, often read by incredible narrators (or even sometimes a whole cast), while doing other things. Multitasking at its finest! Iāve loved audiobooks since I was a kid. My sister and I had a collection of...
Dream Casting for Musical Theatre Shows
When I see shows in the theatre, I canāt help imagining certain actors playing some of the roles. Thatās not to say that the actors actually playing the roles arenāt doing a good job, of course. But I do this with everything: the number of times in my life that Iāve...
Happy 4th Birthday, Wonderfully Bookish!
Four years. FOUR YEARS! Thatās how long itās been since I started Wonderfully Bookish. Back when it was a small infant. A tiny hobby that I didnāt think would really go anywhere. Little did I know that four years later, Iād still be working hard on it and it would...
Ep. 11: Meet the New Wonderfully Bookish Co-Host!
This episode is a is a very special one, because itās time to say hello to the new Wonderfully Bookish co-host, Natasha! Iām so excited to have someone with me to discuss all things bookish, and hopefully make each episode a bit more interesting to listen to. Weāve got a ton of ideas and I canāt wait to see where the podcast goes from here. In this episode, we discuss favourite books, authors and genres, our thoughts on DNFing books, and we reminisce over our teenage Twilight phase.
The Handmaidās Tale by Margaret Atwood – Book Review
In the dystopian future of The Handmaid's Tale, the Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one option: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot...
Little Miss Sunshine – New Theatre, Cardiff (Theatre Review)
Little Miss Sunshine is the story of Olive: a little girl with a big dream and an incredibly dysfunctional family. Oliveās dream is to attend the Little Miss Sunshine child beauty pageant, so when she finally has an opportunity for this dream to come true, the whole...
Chinglish by Sue Cheung – Book Review
Jo Kwan is a teenager growing up in 1980s Coventry with her annoying little sister, too-cool older brother, a series of very unlucky pets and utterly bonkers parents. But unlike the other kids at her new school or her posh cousins, Jo lives above her parents' Chinese...
Les MisĆ©rables: Fantine is a Gay Icon and Hereās Why (Guest Post)
Les MisƩrables is one of those shows where you've probably seen it reviewed a thousand times. There's probably not a single person on Earth that hasn't heard of it, and it's been adapted into so many different variations of the stage show, a film, a TV series, and...
