Jessticulates

the ramblings, rantings and ravings of a book unicorn

Wyrd & Wonder is a month-long celebration of the fantastic hosted by imyril @ There’s Always Room for One More,… Read more #WyrdAndWonder 2020 | Wotcher? I hardly know her! In defence of the Tonks women

Wyrd & Wonder is a month-long celebration of the fantastic hosted by imyril @ There’s Always Room for One More,… Read more #WyrdAndWonder 2020 | Should we use fantasy to retell history? (a.k.a. in which Jess is a history grump)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of… Read more #WyrdAndWonder Top Ten Tuesday | Why I love The Goblin Emperor

In honour of my Grandma, Edna, who lost her battle with COVID-19 last week, today I thought I’d share some… Read more My Favourite Fictional Grandmothers

There has been a lot of ‘if you like this, you’ll like this’ content going around the internet for a… Read more Like that book? Watch this show!

Happy New Year! Tonight a new Dracula miniseries starts on the BBC, and while I have no intention of watching… Read more Could 2020 be my Year of the Vampire?

Back in September (I can’t believe it was that long ago!) I shared the ten books on my autumn TBR… Read more Did I read my autumn TBR?

Note: This post includes spoilers for The Folk of the Air trilogy. This year I read and loved all three… Read more Taryn Duarte as a survivor of domestic abuse

I think we can all agree that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a babe. Not only has she been credited with… Read more #SciFiMonth | Is Frankenstein the first AI novel?