2017 Reading Wrap-up

Happy New Years Eve! I hope it's spent with people you love or at least like for the most part. Here's my 2017 reading wrap-up! I completed my Goodreads goal of reading 20 books, which I was super happy with! I didn't count rereads because I only wanted to keep track of my new reads. …

Woman of the Month: Muriel Siebert

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 …

2017 blogging review

Happy Christmas Eve to everyone who celebrates Christmas! It's the last day of Blogmas, which is crazy. I'm super happy I participated in Blogmas. It was a good challenge, but I really enjoyed it. I also just wanted to note that I'll be taking a mini hiatus until the 29th, when I'll publish my last …

Saturday drinks: pomegranate cider

Welcome to the second last day of Blogmas!!!! In May, I did a series where on Saturdays, I gave suggestions for summer drinks, so I thought for Blogmas I'd do a similar one for Christmassy drinks! This week I'm doing pomegranate cider, which is festive but also not super heavy (unlike last week's red wine …

Goals for 2018

I cannot believe that it is almost 2018. But at the same time, 2017 can fuck right off. I like setting goals for the year (obviously) and I like posting them here to keep me somewhat accountable. I've divided them into reading goals (although I'll have a TBR soon!), blog goals, and general goals. Reading …

Thursday’s Top 4: favourite 2017 releases

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).

WWW Wednesday: December 20

WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. All you do is answer the three questions and leave a link to Sam’s post! The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? It's winter break so I've …

Top Ten Tuesday December 19: Christmas wish list!

Learn more about Top Ten Tuesday here! This week is the Top Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings, or my Christmas wish list! I have twelve... I couldn't narrow it down oops   Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor: I heard so much about this book this year and it sounds right up my alley The Female of …

Book review: the Help

It's one week till Christmas!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited!!!! The Help by Kathryn Stockett Paraphrased from Goodreads Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally …

Winter break reading plans!

As of last Friday morning, I am on winter break!!!!! Sorry for all the posts I might have missed since Wednesday, I had two finals within 24 hours so I locked down to study. I don't have school until January 9th or something, and I only plan on working three or four days during the …

Saturday drinks: Red Wine Hot Chocolate

Welcome to Blogmas Day Sixteen!!!! In May, I did a series where on Saturdays, I gave suggestions for summer drinks, so I thought for Blogmas I'd do a similar one for Christmassy drinks! This week I'm doing Red Wine Hot Chocolate which is perfect if you like red wine and dark chocolate. (disclaimer: I don’t …

Revisiting my 2017 goals

Back in March, I set out some overall goals and reading goals for 2017. They weren't very large, but I still wanted to go over them and see how that went. 17 goals for 2017 Be more independent. Verdict: This is a hard one to assess, but I'll say done. I think I was more independent this …