#AW80Books February Round Up

by Sarah

I hope you’re all enjoying your armchair travels as much as I am. In typical obsessive fashion I’ve been totally consumed by the places I’ve been reading my way through. Please holler at… Continue reading →

Around the World in 80 Books Reading Challenge: So, who’s in?

by Sarah

Tomorrow is a very special day for Lucy and I, as it’s the first birthday of HardBookHabit. What an incredible year it’s been – I don’t think I’ve ever read or written more… Continue reading →

A new year of reading (and book purchasing!)

by Lucy

I don’t make new year’s resolutions (I’m not overly-burdened with resolve), but I do like new year plans, and really get into that whole thing, as I’m a sucker for novelty and anything… Continue reading →

I have finished Clarissa! *moons Samuel Richardson*

by Lucy

Oi! Sam! I bet you thought your giant book would beat me, but no! *cocks a snook* And by virtue of this blog, I have been able to look back and see when… Continue reading →

Next up on the Dickens Challenge – The Old Curiosity Shop

by Lucy

My last Dickens Challenge book was the Mystery of Edwin Drood, which I did enjoy, and thankfully, although it was unfinished without the murderer being revealed, Dickens did write a letter to a… Continue reading →

Books with added guitar solos!

by Lucy

Well, the book on the right does, every time I look into that wolf’s eye I hear and gnarly axe twiddling. It reminds me of a t-shirt my grandmother bought me when I… Continue reading →

Which Dickens to read next?

by Lucy

It’s time to start a new Dickens, as part of the Dickens Challenge. I’ve decided to read one that I know very little about, nothing I have ever seen on a screen, or… Continue reading →

Books that cost less than cornflakes

by Lucy

I mean Kellog’s, not supermarket own. But still, the Wordsworth Classics range is damn affordable, especially when there’s a reading challenge on the go, and a 100 specific books to buy. In the… Continue reading →

Please give me permission to spend money I shouldn’t

by Lucy

Ooooooooohhhh, I want this book, Literary Knits. But I have totally blown my book budget for this month already, and next month, but never mind, lentils are healthy, and cheap toilet roll does… Continue reading →

‘Beware the Ides of March’

by Sarah

As today is the Ides, or the 15th of March – famed as being particularly inauspicious for Julius Caesar, (and he can’t say he wasn’t warned!) – I thought it would be a… Continue reading →