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“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” - Neil Armstrong, 20th July 1969. 👨🏻‍🚀🚀🌗 Space Saturday featuring our moon themed window display at @rossiter_books! Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first landing on the moon. What an incredible moment in history and it must have been such a special time with the whole world united in watching such an important event. Are you old enough to remember it? What are your memories of that day?

What author would you like to meet? If you could turn back time, what deceased author would you like to meet? Most of the authors that I’d love to meet have passed away. If I had to choose a top ten list, the seven authors featured would be on the list and then I’d include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Dickens. If I could extend the list, Jane Austen, Harper Lee and JK Rowling would be three more who I’d love to meet and I know there’s many more that I am forgetting to include on my list! There are so many authors with such incredible legacies that ensures I would have no shortage of questions for them. If you had just one question to ask, what would it be? 📚 The beautiful print was #gifted to me from @itslauracrow. Isn’t it gorgeous?! 😍 #cuddleupwithjuly - Author I would like to meet.

Summer Reads Sunday featuring another #tenonmytbr. These are books I would like to read over the summer, some of which have been popping up already on my monthly TBR posts! Sometimes I just forget about the books I’d planned to read and get distracted by other books. 😂 Does this happen to you? Do you have a summer reading list in mind? 📚 Confession time: I haven’t done any reading this weekend! 😬 When I haven’t been working, I’ve been too engrossed in the tennis. Yesterday was a bit of a disappointing shocker, but today’s match was epic. It was everything I wanted in a men’s final, apart from the result! It is now the longest men’s final match and imagine how long it could have been if the new rules weren’t in place?! Were you watching it? 📚 {#gifted books are One More Lie and Come Back For Me} 📚 #cuddleupwithjuly - Beach Vibes

Flashback Friday to three years ago when I joined Bookstagram! I realised this morning that last Friday was the anniversary date of when I began my account. My first photo was taken in Greece, where I had brought seven books with me to read. I ended up reading four out of the seven, three of which I don’t have in this photo as one was a library book and I didn’t keep the other two. The one book that I read and still have was The Boy That Never Was, which was an excellent mystery thriller. I still have yet to read the other three books featured here, mainly because my reading list has grown so much since joining Bookstagram! Discovering so many more books is one of the best things about Bookstagram, and making so many new friends. There’s far too many of you to mention, but you know who you are! Here’s to many more years of bookish chats and meet ups 🥰📚

This time last week I was having the best night with @rossiter_books at @waterstonesbristol who hosted an evening with @vintagebooks. Vintage Books showcased six of their new and established writers, which included Jung Chang, AD Miller, Ruth Ware, Colin Grant, Samantha Harvey and Deepa Anappara. I was very excited to actually meet Jung Chang, who was such a lovely lady. We also got to take away lots of great books published by Vintage, and a lovely tote bag too. My bag was overflowing with books! I will have to share more info about the books in a few future posts as there were some very special books in this pile! It’s such a brilliant opportunity to attend events like these as it’s a chance to learn about upcoming releases and I always come away from these kind of events feeling very inspired. Thank you again to @rossiter_books @waterstonesbristol and @vintagebooks for such a fantastic evening! 😊❤️📚 Have you been to any book events recently? Are there any books in this pile that you’d like to read?

Book Review 📖 Educated ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 📖 Memoir Monday...Tara Westover grew up in Idaho with a survivalist father, who believed in the End of Days and distrusted the government, and so Tara had no birth certificate or medical records. Her formative years were spent working in her father’s scrapyard, a place that proved to be a constant danger to the family. As her father became more radical and her brother Shawn more violent, Tara sought solace in educating herself. Her life would lead to an incredible path that saw her studying at Harvard and Cambridge, where she received a PhD in 2014. As her world expanded, she began to consider the damaging effects of her family’s actions and how to move on with her life. 📖 Educated is a powerful memoir that explores family loyalty, class, gender and the destructive effects of extreme views. The book highlights the importance of education, something that many of us can take for granted. Not only does education provide the foundation for a successful career and future, it allows everyone to see much of the truth in the world, as opposed to being solely indoctrinated to one person’s skewed views. It is also a book that explores the effects of trauma and how a person can overcome adversity to forge their own path. 📖 Last year I went to see Tara Westover at the @hayfestival and she truly was a remarkable person. She was quite matter-of-fact about her childhood and even joked about the dangers of working in her father’s scrapyard. Yet despite the suffering she endured at the hands of her father and brother, she showed no signs of bitterness towards her family and was such a positive person. The one statement she made that has stuck with me ever since was: “You can still love your family, but you just can’t have them in your life” and it was such a mature reasoning on how to deal with such an extreme family. It was no surprise for me to love Educated as much as Westover’s talk and I can’t recommend it enough! 📖 Have you read Educated? Do you enjoy memoirs? 📖 #glenjensbookreviews

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