Review: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

I realised I never actually posted my written review here on the blog so today I'm sharing my BookTube review of this book that I loved so much last year!

Queenie Jenkins can't cut a break. Well, apart from the one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Then there's her boss who doesn't seem to see her and her Caribbean family who don't seem to listen (if it's not Jesus or water rates, they're not interested). She's trying to fit in two worlds that don't really understand her. It's no wonder she's struggling.

She was named to be queen of everything. So why is she finding it so hard to rule her own life?

A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, QUEENIE will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity, and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way.

Review

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Quick Reads come out in the UK on 20th February 2020 and Candace Carty-Williams is releasing Notting Hill Carnival. You can click here to order your copy and support Quick Reads.

Vlogmas 2018 Week 1

If you are new around here, you may or may not know I have a BookTube Channel. The previous 2 Decembers I have taken part in Vlogmas, a challenge where you post a video every day in December. Some people do this until Christmas and some do it until the end of the month and some just until Christmas. I find post 24 videos quite enough of a challenge and then getting back to normal videos so I will have a video on my channel every day up until Christmas. 

In celebration of this I thought I would share my videos posted in the first week of Vlogmas here for you. I have a Vlogmas playlist for every year I have taken part so far so you can find that on my channel, otherwise, here are my week 1 Vlogmas videos!

Trying my hand at vlogging...

As you know, I started my YouTube/BookTube channel about a year and a half ago now and last year I did my first vlogmas. It was great to get me really into making videos and getting them turned around quickly. This year I have used vlogmas as a bit of an excuse to experiment with some different videos and some different editing too. 

One of the biggest things I've been trying is vlogging my day or my week or just experiences I've had. 

I've tried daily vlogging...

I've also tried weekly vlogging...

And I've also vlogged about my festive fun days...

I also tried my hand at a reaction video...

And showed you my reading routine...

I'd love to know your thoughts on these kind of videos and whether they fit on my channel or not.

It's still a work in progress but I'm having fun!

BookTubeAThon Wrap Up!

So I LOVED taking part in the BookTubeAThon for the first time properly this year. I completed 6 out of 7 video challenges, a couple of the Bookstagram challenges and a couple of the reading sprints over on Twitter. It was great. You can see all my challenges on my YouTube channel, here's the one that I loved the most...

I also completed all of the reading challenges-yey! Here's my TBR Post where I explained what all the challenges were and what I was planning to read. Apart from one book I was planning on reading for the 'read a book with a character that is different from you' challenge. I ticked the other things off my TBR pil!

Here are the books I read during this week of reading:

Book One: 278 Pages

Has a person on the cover

Read it in one sitting

Read it completely outside

Has a main character very different to me

Book 2: 386 pages

Is a hyped book

Has a main character very different to me

Book 3: 312 pages

Has a person on the cover

Book 4: 272 pages

Has a person on the cover

Read it in one day

Has a main character very different to me

Book 5: 400 pages

Has a main character very different to me

Book 6: 305 pages

Bought it because of the cover

Read it completely outside

Read it in one day

Book 7: 212 pages

Has a main character very different to me

Read it in one day

The 7th book!

Book 8: 244 pages

Has a person on the cover

Has a main character very different to me

Got it because of the cover

Book 9: 100 pages

Read it in one day

Book 10: 244 pages

Has a main character who is very different to me

Has a person on the cover

Book 11: 304 pages

Bought it because of the cover

Has so many characters who are different to me

Total pages read: 2753

So look out for my reviews on all of these books coming very soon. I am planning on doing video reviews in full of a couple of these and planning on doing a video with some mini reviews too so please do check that out. 

I had great fun this week, did you take part in BookTubeAThon?

Which readathon is your favourite?

What are you reading right now?

BookTubeAThon 2017 TBR

Tomorrow sees the start of the BookTube-A-Thon!

This is a week long readathon which begins at midnight wherever you are on the 24th July and ends at 11:59pm on 30th July. This readathon is the biggest readathon on YouTube and is hosted by the fab Ariel Bisset.

Here is the information for the readthon, you don't have to be a booktuber to take part!

The BookTubeAThon comes with reading challenges to complete throughout the week as well as video chalelnges and Bookstagram challenges so keep an eye out for my videos throughout the week, I'm going all in on this one!

Here are the books I'm going to read to complete these challenges:

1. Read a book with a person on the cover

Or

(depending how I have got on with the 24 in 48 readathon!)

2. Read a hyped book.

3. Finish a book in one day.

(also fulfils challenges 1 and 4)

4. Read about a character that is very different from you.

(Also fulfils challenge 1)

5.  Finish a book completely outdoors.

This one could be covered by any of the books because I already do a lot of reading outside! Keep an eye open for updates as to which one I choose to complete this challenge!

6. Read a book you bought because of the cover.

(Also will fulfil challenge 3)

7. Read seven books.

So in addition to these books I also have a couple of other books I would like to read but I am fairly flexible when it comes to 'making up the numbers' so here are a couple of other books I would like to get to from my July TBR and my current library book borrows:

Are YOU taking part in this readathon? I would love you to leave links to your posts/videos if you are! 

Happy reading!

My YouTube Confession

So I've been talking about this for a long time but I have finally started making YouTube vidoes!

I know I've been keeping this from you-kind of. They're up there and YouTube so I haven't really but I havent annouced that I've been making videos here on the blog.

So I've done a couple of book-related topic talks, a couple of reviews and a couple of books hauls. I've also done the classic montly wrap-up and TBR.

So if you want to find me on YouTube, I'm exactly the same as I am on here-Fabulous Book Fiend .

I'm starting off small but I've been talking about doing this for so long and so I'm just filming myself talking about books and putting it up there. There's no pressure to subscribe and no pressure to watch but I'm exapnding my bookish horizons and taking some bookish risks!