Hello! 👋
July 23, 2021
Hello lovelies! Welcome to Alexandra’s Books! I’m an independent amateur book reviewer planning to post about all the books I’ve been reading recently with some little reviews.
✨✨ Some fun facts about me ✨✨
- I’m a Kiwi, from down under in Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿 I was born and raised here, and have lived here my whole life.
- As a child, I was in a kids lit quiz team and could go through 5 books a week… these days I’m a slower reader so I’m happy to get through 2 per week
- I don’t own enough books and I wish I had a bigger bookshelf to fit my books in, but I’m working on it
- My TBR is currently 246 books long and ever growing! I don’t quite know what to do with all the books I want to read.
- I’m a software engineer, but I also kind of hate technology! It’s a bit of a weird combination - but I did build this blog from scratch which has been a great challenge
- I cannot read anything on a screen unless I’m annotating! It just doesn’t feel right - even a short news article (or even a blog post) can be such a struggle
- I love collecting house plants, but don’t really have room for them and have to be very careful not to spend too much on them!
- I love to go tramping (hiking), especially when there’s a lovely view at the end!
Here are some pictures of what my life looks like here in New Zealand!
✨✨ What to expect from this blog ✨✨
While I’d love to say I know what I’m doing when it comes to book reviews, I know that this is not quite true. I promise to be as honest as I can, respect the authors, and acknowledge that other readers may have completely different perspectives to me.
I’m looking forward to going on this journey with you all!
Written by Alexandra