About Me

Hello everyone, and welcome to my humble little corner of the internet. I can hear the cogs whizzing around in your heads, so why don’t I just explain why on earth you’re on a blog entitled the Book Cricket?

Well, it all started one sunny afternoon… okay there is no way I going to write it in this style! Basically, my friends and I were having a discussion about jobs and careers and the rest of our lives… you know, the norm, when my friend informed me I should be a book cricket.

It was later revealed that she in fact meant book critic, and I supposed I’m that too, but the book cricket stuck… and so that is how this blog came to be.

How you found yourself on this blog is a mystery even to me, but I would just like to say that I’m glad you’re here.

This is the part of the conversation where I’m supposed to say, ‘enough about me, tell me about you!’ but that’s going to be difficult, and so I fear I’ll have to continue rattling on about myself. (The cross I have to bear!)

I live in a small town in Northern Ireland (the small part of Ireland that is actually part of the UK, and thus is often overlooked in most geography lessons). I recently turned 18 and discovered the online book blogging community, oh lets say, six months ago.

I did have one beauty blog before this which lasted for about a year however I had no followers, comments, likes and 1,000 views which indicated that nobody liked what I was posting and so decided to try something else.

I’ve always been an avid reader and so book blogging was always something that tickled my fancy, but it seemed time consuming. I was never a fan girl. I didn’t fall head over heels in love with characters. I didn’t have an OTP… but now I do.

In recent months I have been consumed by the fan girl frenzy and so I needed a way to tell the world, outside of my FanFiction (which is awesome and you should check out #shamelessplug), this blog is that place for me. This is a place where I can come and write about books, and movies and characters and authors and all things that make readers like me go all quivery at the knees.

I know you were probably looking for some video where a cricket wears a top hat, and you ended up here… and I know you most likely want to click out of this page and never think about the strange girl who has the online presence of an insect (I’m not even speaking metaphorically here!) but please, read a review, leave a comment, subscribe by email… Anything! Just let me know you’re out there!

P.S. I know this said ‘About Me’ at the top and I realise I didn’t actually tell you anything about myself so… My favourite colour is duck egg blue, I love giraffes (but elephants are better), I love to sing (and I’m not too bad, if I do say so myself), my favourite author of all time is Brian Friel (or Oscar Wilde, it depends what day of the week it is), I have the physical fitness of a 200 year old smoker (partly to do with my asthma, but mostly to do with my reading), I’m addicted to coke (as in Coca Cola… not drugs).

I’m sure there’s more but for now, that’s me!

xx