Blogmas!

IT'S DECEMBER TOMORROW!!!! We've put up our Christmas wreaths and lights, and got out the Christmas candles, and started to think about getting a Christmas tree, and have been teaching our PUPPY not to chew Christmas decorations! Which means it's time for Blogmas! Blogmas is when you blog every day until Christmas. It's my first …

Top Five Wednesday: Authors You’d Want to Write Like

Find more about T5W here! This week is authors you'd want to write like, which is such a great topic! Neil Gaiman I know his writing is controversial, but I find some of it so lyrical and poetic, especially in his short stories. I've always been a huge fan of his writing, and when I …

Tag Tuesday: the Fall for Books Tag!

Thanks very much to Rachel for the tag! This one was a lot of fun and I get to gush about books I love. THE RULES Please link back to this post so I can see your answers! Have fun! One of the first books you fell in love with Other than kids books, I'll go with …

Books that made me obsess over things

I'm a really obsessive passionate person. One of the things I've always been passionate about is, obviously, reading. But sometimes reading can make me obsess over other things in life. These are some books where I inadvertently learned about something and then just never stopped thinking about it. The Name of This Book is Secret …

Woman of the Month: Peggy McIntosh

Woman of the Month is a feature on my blog where each month I highlight a woman in the world who I think garners recognition. I started this mainly to increase Girl Power and empowerment, and because there's a lot of women I feel are overlooked and I wanted to bring attention to them. This …

Thursday’s Top 4: books with bad endings/endings you want to rewrite

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’s topic is authors where you liked one of their books but not the other (aka the longest title ever).

Predicting 5-star reads

I have seen these posts everywhere recently and decided to hop on the bandwagon! Essentially, you go through your TBR and find books that you think might be 5-star reads. Here are mine! Salt to Sea by Ruta Sepetys I read Between Shades of Gray by Sepetys forever ago and loved it, and I've heard …

The Listicle Tag

Thanks Katie for the nomination and prompt! Sorry this took me forever to get to, it was harder to find books that deal with grief than I thought. RULES: Create your own listicle tag, using the prompt from the person who tagged you. Tag the creator of the post (not-so-modern-girl!) so that she can read all your …

Book recommendations: for people who don’t like reading

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. This month I'm doing books for people who don't like reading. I think we all know someone who isn't really a fan of reading, or we all went through …

The Awesome Blogger Award

Thank you very much to Delphine and Vikki for the nominations! Sorry this is about 90 years late. Everyone go check out their blogs: Delphine is currently living the dream in France and Vikki writes lovely book reviews. The Awesome Blogger Award is an award for the absolutely wonderful writers all across the blogging world. They …

Book Review: the Lost Girls

The Lost Girls by Heather Young Paraphrased from Goodreads In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys her mother, who spends the rest of her life at the lake house, hoping in vain that her favourite daughter will walk out of …

Topics I want to read more of

There are a lot of topics I find super interesting to read about, but never do. Mainly it's because I don't like the style a lot of the books are written in. For example, I love mysteries but I don't like the way a lot of old mystery novels are written. So here are some …