Making Irish Cupcakes & Slowing Reading | The Irish Readathon Week One Vlog

The first week of The Irish Readathon is done! My reading was a little bit all over the place this week but I managed to get a bit done. I picked up some great short stories from popular Irish authors as well as reading more contemporary young adult. I also started an audiobook with a …

32 Books I Want to Read this Year | Part 2

I might be a bit late with an annual TBR but I didn't make the list until February so here we are. I use Notion to organise my blog posts and my life (meal planning, travel planning, etc.). It's freaking amazing! They have templates for everything. One of the templates I got was this 2021 …

32 Books I Want to Read this Year | Part 1

I might be a bit late with an annual TBR but I didn't make the list until February so here we are. I use Notion to organise my blog posts and my life (meal planning, travel planning, etc.). It's freaking amazing! They have templates for everything. One of the templates I got was this 2021 …

Completed 2020 Reading Journal Flip-Through

I'm so late with this but here is the flip-through of my completed 2020 reading journal at last! I use a junk journal style for my reading journal so there are lots of vintage ephemera, tuck spots and other junk to play with in the journal. It was a lot of fun to work on …

The Irish Readathon 2021 TBR

Hello friends, despite how dreadful I usually am at sticking to TBR's, I've put together a few books I would like to read for this year's Irish Readathon. I've gone for mostly recent releases this year and one classic. I have a few more books added to an Irish Readathon Goodreads Shelf that I might …

The Irish Readathon 2021 Announcement

The Irish Readathon 2021 is almost here! I'm joining in in hosting The Irish Readathon with Aoife at Words of Clover and Leanne Rose again this year. The Readathon will be running for the entire month of March and to participate you only need to read one book related to Ireland or complete any one …

New Old Books | 2nd Hand Books Haul

My first book haul since August 2019, people!!! I did tell myself I wasn't buying any more books until I read at least half of the books I already own. . . . Yeah, that didn't happen but I did break my book buying ban. It's not so bad when they're second hand books, right?. …

Jane Austen July | SILENT VLOGS

Hello friends, sadly Jane Austen July is nearly over and I didn't vlog nearly as much as I intended too. I had planned on getting more reading in and some chatty vlogs but things don't always go as planned. I did do some colouring in the beautiful Colour Me Jane by Jacqui Oakley (be sure …

Wine & Cheese Reading Social Vlog

https://youtu.be/FioKC81elvc I have been so stuffed up and generally gross from allergies so I didn't record a chatty wrap up for this. I had a great night though and really enjoyed my books. Thanks so much to Rainey for hosting with me it was so much fun organising it with you 🙂 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chocolat-Joanne-Harris-ebook/dp/B0031RS7MW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?crid=3SU9V090GXJZZ&dchild=1&keywords=chocolat+joanne+harris&qid=1586896945&sprefix=chocolat+joann,aps,138&sr=8-1&linkCode=ll1&tag=elainehowlin-21&linkId=53b5b0edcabf2fb5ce2ed39fc047efcd&language=en_GB https://www.amazon.co.uk/Duke-2nd-Epilogue-Bridgertons-Book-ebook/dp/B00UG8RP8Q/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=the+duke+and+i&qid=1586896953&smid=A1G3UP32AZJ14F&sr=8-1&linkCode=ll1&tag=elainehowlin-21&linkId=342683aefb33f38c8e74d5482ea1051f&language=en_GB

24 Hour Reading Vlog | The Irish Readathon

March is finally over and with it another Irish Readathon. I kind of dropped the ball with the readathon this year with everything that has been going on in the world but I enjoyed it none the less. https://youtu.be/7LmsbjO5dFY Just before the Irish Readathon ended we decided to have a 24-hour readathon from 8 am …