Andy – Pewter Wolf Reads
Hi and welcome to The Pewter Wolf Reads
My name is Andrew and I started book blogging back in 2010 after becoming unemployed and needing an escape from all the dead-end job hunting. I tweeted and and blogged about the books I had read and, before I need it, I had stumbled into the world of book blogging (not realising it was a real thing at the time) and being invited for my first book blogger event that autumn.
That is how I stumbled into book blogging.
Due to my stumblings, I somehow won the Blogger’s Blogger Award at the 2015 UKYA Blogger Awards (as well as being nominated in two other categories – Champion of Social Media and Champion of Diversity in YA). I was again nominated for Champion of Diversity in 2016 and, in 2018, I was shortlisted for Champion Adult Blogger for UKYA Blogger Awards 2018 and longlisted in three other categories: Champion of Diversity, Best Established Blogger and Marvellous Blogger.
The Pewter Wolf Reads can be found at:
Website: thepewterwolf.blogspot.com
Instagram: @pewterwolf
Goodreads: @PewterWolf
Storygraph: thestorygraph.com/profile/pewterwolf
How long have you been blogging for?
I got into book blogging in, I think, 2010 so been doing this for over 15 years. Not bad for someone who fell into it by accident!
How do you want your blog to develop in the future?
As I’ve been doing this for 15 years and having really bad burnout over the blog, it’s more a change of attitude with it and blog when I feel I have something to say. And it’s ok not to blog every book I read/DNF on the main blog.
Basically, I want the blog to not feel like a chore and it find the joy in blogging. And to be kinder to myself and my reading.
What are you reading right now?
I have too many books on the go. Am a bit of a magpie. At the time of writing these answers, my main read is “The Talented Mr Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith (I bought this while on holiday at well-known bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, to celebrate my birthday as I thought this was set in both Paris and Rome. I might have been wrong on that front. I, also, bought my next read there – “The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side” by Agatha Christie.)
My Dip-in-and-out-when-the-mood-takes-me is “The Ragpicker King” by Cassandra Clare, which I enjoying leisurely reading. And the audiobook I’m going to start in a day or two (as voted for on my Instagram) is “Red Rising” by Pierce Brown.
What has been your favourite book of the year so far?
I have three titles I can think of being fave reads of 2025 so far: “Hungerstone” by Kat Dunn, “The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV” by Helen Castor and “Sunrise on the Reaping” by Suzanne Collins.
What book have you re-read the most and why?
“Sabriel” by Garth Nix. I adore the Old Kingdom series and hope to reread the first 3 books in series again soon (it was another book in another series for a very long time in my youth, but I can’t bring self to reread that series as the author has slowly become a person I don’t respect or agree with).
How big is your physical TBR?
I shudder to think and I am trapped under my cat so I can’t go ahead and count. Sorry.
What’s your reading preference, physical, ebook, audio?
I jump between all three. I listen to audio while driving to/from work and I do both physical and ebook in bed. It honestly depends where I am and my mood.
What book are you looking forward to in the near future?
I have four preorders at the moment: “Rainforest” by Michelle Paver, “Quantum of Menace”Vaseem Khan, “Among the Burning Flowers” by Samatha Shannon and “The Rose Field” by Philip Pullman (which reminds me, I need to actually audiobook “The Secret Commonwealth” before October).
