Top 5 Tuesday: sequels I need to get to

It has been a little while since I participate in Top 5 Tuesday, and I honestly wasn't sure I was going to be able to do this topic. Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the lovely Shanah at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit here for the upcoming topics! This week, the …

Physical TBR update: 2019

Hi everyone, I hope all is well! Today I'm doing a physical TBR update. These are mainly the books I've received for Christmas and birthdays the past few years, and where I call myself out for not reading any of them. IN MY DEFENSE I don't live at home during the school year, so I …

1,000 follower Q&A

Happy Saturday, everyone!! If you missed it, a few weeks ago, I reached 1,000 followers on this blog! To celebrate, I decided to do a Q&A, and today is the day I'm answering all the questions. Thank you to everyone who asked questions! There were so many good ones and I had so much fun …

WWW Wednesday: April 24

Happy Wednesday! It has been almost a full year since I did a WWW Wednesday, but I've finally been reading again and I wanted to talk about the books I've been reading lately. WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. All you do is answer the three questions and …

Mini review: Unwind

Unwind by Neal Shusterman From Goodreads Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of …

Tag Tuesday: Books I WANT to read, but don’t want to READ

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Today is another Tag Tuesday and instead of doing one of the 35 tags I've been tagged in, I thought I'd do a tag I wasn't tagged in! Today I'm doing the Books I WANT to read, but don’t want to READ tag, which is such a fun topic. There are so many books …

Discussion: cancel culture and the book community

Another day, another discussion I am anxious to post. Today I wanted to talk about something that I feel like we, the book community, need to work on: cancel culture. Please bear with me and hear me out throughout this discussion, and remember that these are my opinions and you can agree or disagree with …

Thursday’s Top 4: books I have mixed feelings about

Happy Thursday, everyone! 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 you have mixed feelings about. I actually had a hard time finding books I had mixed feelings about. …

Deciding the fate of overused tropes in fantasy

I love a good fantasy novel. I don't read it a ton, but when I do, I generally enjoy it. But there are some tropes in fantasy that are overused. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Tropes are tropes for a reason: they make a plot interesting. But I thought it'd be fun to go …

My favourite spam comments

Hi friends! Normally on Tuesdays, I do either TTT or T5T or Tag Tuesday. But I'm in the middle of finals right now (when I'm typing this, I should be studying for my contracts final, and when you're reading this, I'll be studying for my final final of first year!), so I don't have a …

Recommendations for… lesser-known diverse 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. Today I'm doing recommendations for lesser-known diverse books! A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki: Asian rep, mental health rep This book has such an interesting exploration …

Review: Women Talking

Women Talking by Miriam Toews From Goodreads One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for …