Diary of a Bibliophagist

Hello Today I thought I would post this tag to give you a bit of an insight into my reading journey; this kind of explains how I became a reader and why reading is so important to me. Stephen King 1. Choose one word that describes being a reader Consuming; I find reading to be an all consuming activity, when I read I am dead to the world, the apocalypse could start and I would still be fully engrossed in my book. 2. What’s the very first book you fell in love with I don’t know if it’s the first book I feel in love with but I vividly remember the book being one I read a lot as a kid; The Tiger Came to Tea by Judith Kerr. I think it is probably one of the first books I learned to read independently. 3. Hardcover or paperback Paperback, always. I can’t hold a hardcover book, it hurts my hand and I always drop them on my face. 4. How has reading shaped your identity I am an introvert; this is something I have come to terms with and I no longer think of it as a flaw. ...

Hi, my name is Charley and I have an alcohol problem. Okay so it’s not what you are thinking but I do have an alcohol issue; I am a naturally anxious person, this stems from my personality type but it has been fuelled by the things I have encountered in my short time on this planet thus far. People who deal with anxiety may also deal with the problem most commonly known as Hangover Anxiety. If I drink heavily, as in get past tipsy and in to drunk, I tend to wake up the next morning with an unequivocal sense of dread and well impending doom. I run everything that happened through my head on a loop, picking out all the moments where I made a fool of myself and irritated everyone around me. This is probably not that strange for your average post drinking life reflection, the abnormal thing in my case is that this feeling can last for up to 7 days after the night. It’s not your typical “God I was an idiot last night” moment, it is a crippling sense of self-doubt which can completel...

I don't know about you but lately I have noticed some very tiresome tropes reassuring in modern novels, which leave me ultimately disappointed in the outcome of a novel. Now I am not saying that when executed well some of these things can't be entertaining and effective, but for the most part they feel like lazy tactics to flesh out an otherwise perfectly fine plot. 1.  Love triangles I thought it would be best to get the obvious one out of the way first, I think we are all a bit sick and tired of seeing this trope in contemporary romance. I am not sure many readers really liked it in Twilight but we dealt with it and now it seems to be a common theme in romance. I don't think I need to explain this explicitly, it is just boring to read a character flip flop between love interests for no real reason and it usually makes me find the protagonist really irritating. However, I do think this was executed well in Beating Ruby by Camilla Monk, the second book in the  Spotless...

I thought my first post should be a tag of some description to give you a good idea what my general taste in books is, however I take eclectic to a whole new level with books and music so I am not sure this will be much help. I really love this tag, I have read a few other bloggers' posts and I just think it's a good'un, props to whoever came up with this one. BLACK: NAME A SERIES THAT’S TOUGH TO GET INTO BUT HAS HARDCORE FANS. I don't have a series per say but I do have a book which I have wanted to read forever but I just can't get myself through the first chapter; The Life of Pi. I know this book really is a classic at this point and my Dad has been nagging me to read it for years but I just find it kind of boring, I know that once I eventually get past the first few pages I will love it but until then... PEPPERMINT MOCHA: NAME A BOOK THAT GETS MORE POPULAR DURING THE WINTER OR A FESTIVE TIME OF YEAR. I don't know if it gets more popular dur...