Tag Tuesday: the Bookish Naughty or Nice tag

Happy Tuesday, gals and/or pals! Today I'm doing another tag. Many thanks to Zuky for tagging me to do this tag literally a year ago, sorry it took me until this year to do it! The Rules Tag & link the person who tagged you. Tag and link Jenniely’s post, for she’d love to read everyone’s answers! …

Book review: Night Film

Night Film by Marisha Pessl On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of …

Christmas wish list!

Happy Tuesday, pals and gals! Today is my first festive-themed post, which I'm super excited for! I love the holiday season, and though I'm not doing Blogmas this year, I still wanted to do some holiday themed posts. Today I'm talking about my Christmas wish list! These are books I asked for from my parents …

Recommendations for… fast-paced books

Happy Monday, everyone! 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 (also Monthly Recommendations has been dead lately so). Today I'm doing recommendations for fast-paced books. If you need a few quick books to read to finish off …

November wrap-up + mini hiatus announcement

Hi gals and pals, I hope all is well with you! Today is the last day of November and thus my November wrap-up. I also just wanted to say that I'll be doing a mini-hiatus in December. School has just been a bit overwhelming lately and I haven't been enjoying blogging as much because of …

Book review: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See From Goodreads In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations—until a stranger appears at the village gate …

Thursday discussion: books I need to read before the end of 2019

Happy Thursday, everyone! Welcome to this week's Thursday Discussion. Essentially, this is a biweekly meme where you write a post based on the prompt for that week. The post can be as long or as short as you want, and you can talk about as much or as little as you want. Visit this page …

Tag Tuesday: the quick fire fantasy tag

Happy Tuesday friends, I hope all is going well! Today I'm doing a tag, which I haven't done in a while. This one is curtesy of Hanna, and was created by Jo @ The Book Worm Dreamer. Thank you to both of you, Hanna for tagging me and Jo for creating the tag! RULES Thank …

Goodreads Bookshelf Tour: favourites (2)

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today is the first official instalment of my new Goodreads Bookshelf series! Inspired by Bella @ All Things Annabelle, every other week, I'll be going through the different shelves I have on Goodreads, explaining what they mean, and some of the books on there. Today is part two my favourites shelf! Again, this …

Three DNF Reviews

Happy Friday, y'all! Today I'm talking about the three books I've DNFed (did not finish) recently. I haven't been DNFing books lately because I've been reading books I was sure I would enjoy. But, recently, I've DNFed three books for various reasons, and thought I'd talk about those reasons today. A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine …

Non-fiction books on my TBR

Happy Wednesday, pals and gals! I hope your week has been going great. It's currently Non-Fiction November, and though I'm not participating, I did still want to talk about and highlight some non-fiction books. A couple weeks ago I did some recommendations, so today I thought I'd talk about some non-fiction books on my TBR! …

If you liked this popular book, try this less popular book

Happy Monday, pals! Today I'm doing another "if you liked this, try this" post, but for popular and less popular books. I always try to highlight less popular books and wanted to talk about some that I've read and enjoyed recently. I should say just to start that most of these books (if not all) …