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!
I’m Looking For a Wonderfully Bookish Podcast Co-Host!
Want to be a co-host of a fun, light-hearted, discussion-based, bookish podcast? I’m looking for co-hosts RIGHT NOW and you could be one! Keep reading to find out how.
Snippet Reviews – Angie Thomas Edition (On The Come Up & The Hate U Give)
In the past few years, YA has grown massively as a genre of its own. Itās so important for teenagers and young adults in SO many ways, and Iāve slowly filled up almost my entire bookshelf with YA books. But hereās the thing: while all YA books are important in their...
Mid-Year Reflection & Book Freak Out Tag 2019
This has been a crazy year and we’re only halfway through! I reflect on my year so far, and then do the Mid-Year Book Freak Out tag just for a bit of fun.
Meat Market by Juno Dawson – Book Review
Meat Market is an eye-opening look into the fashion industry and how damaging it can be, and deals with important themes of mental health, body image, ethics of the industry, and the abuse of power that comes along with it.
I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory – Blog Tour Review
āI love you, Aaron.ā I say it out loud. And we both hear that question in my voice. His eyes are saying, Prove it. When Gemma meets Aaron, she feels truly seen for the first time. Their love story is the intense kind. The written-in-The-stars, excluding-All-others...
Wonderfully Bookish Has A New Look!
What do I do when Iām going on holiday in the morning, haven't packed or showered, and it's approaching midnight? Completely redesign my blog, of course! For ages, I've liked the design of my blog but there was something about it that I wasn'tĀ loving.Ā I did a bit of...
The A-Z Book Survey
Sometimes, a quick book tag is a nice, easy way to get back into blogging after falling into (yet another) slump. So here’s the A-Z book survey, where you can be nosy and learn a bit about my reading habits, my favourite books, what I’m currently reading, and more!
BookTube Round-Up – May 2019
If you read my previous post about how I’m planning on world domination with my Wonderfully Bookish internet empire, you’ll see that I started a YouTube channel! It’s something I wanted to do ages ago, so I finally did it. I’m planning on uploading a couple of videos each week, so I thought a good way for all of you good ol’ blog readers to keep up date (apart from going and subscribing, of course) is to do a quick round-up of all the videos I uploaded each month.
Emilia the Play – Vaudeville Theatre, London (Theatre Review)
Emilia the PlayĀ transferred from The Globe to London West Endās Vaudeville Theatre, and sadly ends its run on June 1st, 2019. The play, written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, gives us a glimpse into the life of the seventeenth-century poet Emilia Bassano Lanier, who was allegedly one of Shakespeareās muses.
Ep. 09: Climate Fiction and Women in Sci-Fi with Stephanie Bretherton
In this episode, I speak with debut science fiction author Stephanie Bretherton, whose first novel Bone Lines is a dual-narrative tale that explores both pre-history and contemporary genetic science. We talk about climate fiction, how the issues we’re facing in the world are reflected in fiction, how to get published later in life, women in sci-fi, and more.
