April is just about finished! How are we already done FOUR MONTHS of the year?? Books Read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro: 5 stars The Measure of my Powers by Jackie Kai Ellis: 4 stars Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys I also reread Vixen and Ingenue by Jillian Larkin, and Imaginary … Continue reading April Wrap-up
Month: April 2018
Read-a-thin: May 2018
Read-a-thin is a readathon created by Jessica at JessicaMarie, Amanda at ACourtofBooksandLove and Chelsea at AVeryBookishGirl. You can see the Goodreads group here! I think I missed a couple this past semester, but I'm excited to be taking part in this round. Here are the rules: You will have the entire month to read these books. The goal is to … Continue reading Read-a-thin: May 2018
Woman of the Month: Augusta Baker
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 … Continue reading Woman of the Month: Augusta Baker
Thursday’s Top 4: books people might not know about
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 is books people might not know about. You know, those books where you think you're the only person who's read them. Dream Factory by … Continue reading Thursday’s Top 4: books people might not know about
Mini review: milk and honey
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur From Goodreads milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes … Continue reading Mini review: milk and honey
Tag Tuesday: Your Bookish Identity Tag
Happy Tuesday everyone! It's time for another Tag Tuesday, coming again from the lovely Rebecca at Bookishly Rebecca. I'm a bit behind on tags, so I'm sorry if you've tagged me in a tag and I haven't done it yet (like, Rebecca tagged me in this one in JANUARY). I haven't forgotten, I promise!!! They're … Continue reading Tag Tuesday: Your Bookish Identity Tag
Brotherhood of the World Award
Thank you so much to Charlotte for nominating me for this award! I'm sorry it took me so long to get to, but better late than never! Rules Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog. Answer the questions sent to you. Nominate around ten bloggers. Create your set of questions … Continue reading Brotherhood of the World Award
Discussion: series hoarding
I do this thing where I read the first book of a series and then never finish the series? I think for a lot of these it's because the series wasn't a series when I read the first book. It also might be because I like standalone books better generally? So I thought I'd do … Continue reading Discussion: series hoarding
WWW Wednesday: April 18
Hello friends! I just got home from writing my last-ever undergraduate final!! I'm officially done all the work needed for my undergrad degree!! 🎉 I was going to do the Top 5 Wednesday prompt for today, which was ideal mash-ups and was such a cool idea. But I couldn't think of any, so I think I … Continue reading WWW Wednesday: April 18
Top 5 Tuesday: books I disliked but others loved
Hello everyone! Just a little update before the post: I made a Twitter! One that's not for a class at school! So if you want to follow me, feel free to click here! Anyway, today is the next Top 5 Tuesday! Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the lovely Shanah at the … Continue reading Top 5 Tuesday: books I disliked but others loved
Recommendations for… those who want to try non-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. This month I’m doing books for those who want to try non-fiction. I think non-fiction can be hard to get into, but it's an important genre to read! All these … Continue reading Recommendations for… those who want to try non-fiction
Discussion: judging people because of books
Happy Friday the Thirteenth!! Okay so I had this discussion idea in my drafts for a while labelled as "books that are telling of people's character," which I think is the official title of this post. But it definitely is just me judging people based on certain books. Personally, there are certain things that I … Continue reading Discussion: judging people because of books