The Book Corner

 Hi guys, I know Saoirse wrote a post about her future with the business, what we see happening in the future and where we want this to go. Although I love the sound of here future, I have my own path ahead of me, and it's a bit different. If you haven't read Saoirse's plans, they are: Writing blog posts and maintaining website (year-round, but specifically during COVID and winter) Car boots sales on Saturdays/Sundays during the year and a pop-up stall in summer. (After COVID and while I’m still in school) Pop-up stall as a part-time job (while in college) Actual shop (after graduating) As Saoirse mentioned in her post, right now we are living the dream. Just two normal sisters doing what they love to do. How could that be a bad thing? I am happy and content with we are doing right now, but don't feel as though that will always be the case. I, of course, want to stay a part of this business for as long as I possibly can, but I also have always wanted to be a teacher. I ...

  hvhgrdkhgs;igfvrs/gsvh.dc\k.hvzouesnzvzh’zafbj/zfhf;dhuhufdz;;bzxdc’uszfd.ghdzshgf That was me getting myself to type. It is difficult to know how to start these things sometimes. I’ve decided to keep it in the post anyway to show you guys that we are not perfect and to be more authentic. Another personal post today. It is approaching a whole year since we launched this business. I cannot believe it. Sometimes still have to shake myself and say: I have a BUSINESS. Selling BOOKS. I am living the dream. And I have all these people (you guys!) behind me who believe in us and are getting benefit from our books and our content. It is amazing to think how far we’ve come. But today I’m going to focus on the future. I’m going to talk about my hopes, dreams and wishes for this business, which I hope can become my lifetime job. I think that reading is extremely important. I think it is why I am where I am today. It is how I learn and grow. It is my everything, and running a business that s...

  How I Choose My Books Hi all, it’s Neassa and today I’m going to show you all how I choose my books. This post will be split into two sections, how I choose my books from bookshops and libraries and how I pick the book I will read next from my bookshelf. How I choose books from bookshops and libraries Step 1 Well, before I even go to the bookshop or the library I have a list of two or three books that I would like in my head, so that I have an idea of the books that I am looking for. I don’t always get these books, they are just a base so that I won’t leave with nothing. Step 2 Once I get to the bookshop or library, I spend a few minutes browsing my favourite sections and either making a mental note of or picking up any books that interest me. I do this because it means that I have a selection of possible books. At this point I often pick up the books I had thought of before I arrived. Step 3 When I have done that, I take a look at the books I have selected. I take a few minutes ...

Uninhabitable Earth (audiobook) by David Wallace-Wells BLURB It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible even within the lifetime of a teenager today. Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geological era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural word, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will ow go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming ever...

  The Supernaturalists - Review Hi all, it’s Neassa and today I’m going to be reviewing The Supernaturalists by Eoin Colfer. I started this book about a month a go, and since then have read multiple books alongside this one.  What is this book about? This book is about a boy called Cosmo Hill who lives in an orphanage called “Clarissa Frayne’s institute for the parentally challenged” and hates it. For many years, he had dreamt about escaping, but never thought it would actually happen. That was until that day. When Cosmo sees his chance at escape, he immediately seized it. But he has never really been out of the orphanage before, and it’s only a matter of time before the orphanage realizes he is missing and comes looking for him. Thoughts? If I’m being honest, I started this book not knowing anything about it, but giving it a go anyway because it was by Eoin Colfer, an author whose books I had read before and whose writing genres and age groups I had figured out. Or so I thoug...

  Why I Am Re-Reading My Old Books Again I’ve decided to do a more personal post today: why I am choosing to mainly re-read books for a little while. I have obviously read a good few of my books 2 or 3 times, but I have ever decided to do it with multiple books in a row. Since I have been reviewing all the books I am reading, I have decided to do a post as to why most will (probably) be re-reads. I usually read prolifically every month, mainly books I haven’t read before. I get new (well, secondhand new) books at least a month. I usually have a 50/50 split between books and genres I know little about and books and genres I know and like. This usually works just fine for me, but lately I have wanted a change. This is in the main because of COVID. To be honest, I cruised through 2020, but 2021 hit like a ton of bricks. I have been in online school since January. I have on average 8 classes online every day (and by that I mean Zoom call) for at least 40 minutes each. Plus homework. Pl...

  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins BLURB Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death. In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature. MY THOUGHTS Eye-opener for attitudes surrounding haves and have-nots Interesting possible future world I remember exactly when I decided I had to read this book. We were in English class, and one of the novel excerpts we were studying was the scene where Katniss steps forward to take her sister's place in the Hunger Games.  I really enjoyed the writing and storyline communicated in those few paragraphs, and decided then and there that I had to read it. So, a week or two later, when my mam was ordering bo...

  Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library review. Hi all, it’s Neassa and today I am reviewing the book I recently finished, Escape from doctor Lemoncello’s library by Chris Grabenstein. I waited a really long time, looking for this book, so I was very excited when I finally got it! What is this book about? This book is about a group of twelve year olds who get the chance of a lifetime, to be the first to view the town’s new library. But this isn’t just any old library, it was made by Mr limoncello, the worlds greatest game maker. Kyle Keely is determined to meet Mr. Limoncello, and so enters the essay competition to be in with a chance. But he doesn’t enter on time, and is lucky to be accepted into the competition, in fact, he’s convinced he hasn’t been! Kyle is absolutely thrilled when he finds out that he is one of the lucky winners and can’t wait to explore the library. What Kyle doesn’t know is that Mr Lemencello’s library is full of traps, games and adventure! Did you enjoy the ...