Book review: The Translation of Love

The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake From Goodreads Thirteen-year-old Aya Shimamura is released from a Canadian internment camp in 1946, still grieving the recent death of her mother, and repatriated to Japan with her embittered father. They arrive in a devastated Tokyo occupied by the Americans under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. Aya's …

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Top Five Wednesday: most disappointing reads of 2018

It's been a hot minute and a half since I did a Top 5 Wednesday, which you can find more about here. Apparently, the last time I did one was SEPTEMBER ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This week is most disappointing reads of 2018. I was lucky in that I had a great reading year, but there were still a …

Top Ten Tuesday January 15: New-to-Me Authors I Read In 2018

Happy Tuesday everyone!! It has been a minute and a half since I did a Top Ten Tuesday, which you can learn more about here! Today the topic is New-to-Me Authors I Read In 2018. I think almost every author I read in 2018 was new, and I found some new favourites honestly. Celeste Ng: I read …

Recommendations for… diverse historical fiction

Even though I participate in giving Monthly Recommendations, I thought I would start my own where every couple weeks I give recommendations for a specific topic. Today I'm doing recommendations for diverse historical fiction. There has been some discussion in the twitter book community about diversity in historical fiction lately, and I wanted to highlight some …

Unique Blogger Award!

Happy Saturday, everyone! I hope the first weekends of 2019 have been great. Today we're back with another awards post, today the Unique Blogger Award! Thank you to the wonderful Celine for the nomination ❤ Her blog is honestly so beautiful, so please go take a look. Rules Display the award! Thank the person who …

2018 backlog mini reviews

So in 2018 I got pretty behind on writing reviews for some of the books I read. I just never wrote a review, and the book has just been sitting on my review list since I read it. So today I thought I'd post some mini reviews for some of those books. Behind the Beautiful …

Thursday’s Top 4: books with bad endings

Find out more about Thursday’s Top 4 here! It’s basically a meme I started mainly for myself, but anyone can participate! Visit this page for the upcoming topics 🙂 This week the topic is books with bad endings. For me, an ending can make or break a book, so I think they're one of the most important …

Books I reread in 2018

Hi friends! I know you're probably tired of seeing 2018 review posts. But I like writing them (and reading them) and still have some I want to do, so sorry!!!! Today, I thought I'd talk about the books I reread in 2018. I tend to reread old favourites, or old books I don't remember a …

Favourites from 2018

Happy Tuesday, friends! I hope your first week of 2019 was a gooder! Today I thought I'd go over my favourite books from 2018. I read a ton of good books and wanted to gush about them. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng This was my #1 favourite of the year. It was …

2019 goals

Happy Saturday!!!! Today I thought I'd go over my 2019 goals. This is mainly to keep myself accountable and so I can remember what my goals were. I also more think of them as guidelines rather than goals. Reading goals Read 25 books: I think this is totally doable! I did 28 in 2018, so …

2019 reading plans

Happy Friday, everyone! First Friday of 2019, so exciting!!!! Today I thought I'd talk about some of my 2019 reading plans. I generally like to keep my plans and goals achievable so I don't stress throughout the year. So I'm keeping that this year too. I also like to set very general TBRs as I'm …

2018 Goals wrap-up

Last year, I set some goals for this year. I did a check up at some point in the summer, which you can read here and where I put some updated goals. So today I thought I'd go through and see how I did achieving those goals. Reading goals Read 20 new books Read 30 books: I was …