June wrap-up

June is done, and I forgot it was the long weekend and that we were going away. But, happy early Canada Day, friends! Books Read Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi: 5 stars Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: 3.5 stars (??) The Raven Boys by Maggie Steifvater: 4.5 stars Glass Beads by Dawn Dumont: 4 stars …

How to: increase your blog traffic

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today on my how to series, we're talking about how to increase your blog traffic! Of course, statistics and traffic are not the end all, be all of blogging. But, it is a lot more fun to blog when you have people to talk to. Having discussions on posts is my favourite part …

Critiquing my favourite books

Hello my fellow book lovers, I hope you're all having a lovely day. For today's post, I'm going to be critiquing some of my favourite books. Personally, I think it's important to be conscientious of the issues in your favourite books. I think it's absolutely okay to enjoy a problematic book, as long as you're …

Thursday discussion: books by LGBTQ+ authors on my TBR

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 …

2019 goals: check-up

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Today I'm doing a check-up on my 2019 goals. This is mainly to keep myself accountable and so I can remember what my goals were, see how I've been doing, and make any changes as necessary. ✅ = on track ❓ = idk how to evaluate my progress on this ❌ = did not or …

Top Ten Tuesday June 25: Books on my Summer TBR

Happy Tuesday everyone!! It has been a minute and a half since I did a Top Ten Tuesday, which you can learn more about here! Today the topic is books on my summer TBR. I generally don't do a ton of TBRs because I'm such a mood reader. But I do like making long-term TBRs. Books …

How to: use Goodreads like a pro

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today on my how to series, we're talking about how to use Goodreads like a pro. If you happen to not know what Goodreads is, it's like Facebook but for books. You can keep track of your TBR and what books you've read, and can make shelves for nearly anything you want. …

Some mini reviews of books I loved

Hi everyone! I hope you had a great week and are looking forward to a great weekend! Today, I have a bunch of mini reviews for you. For books that I loved and really enjoyed, I often don't have a ton to say other than "I loved and really enjoyed this", so it makes writing …

WWW Wednesday: June 19

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Today I thought I'd update y'all about my current reading situation by doing WWW Wednesday. 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? …

Tag Tuesday: the Song Request Book Tag

Happy Tuesday, y'all! Today I'm doing a fun tag, involving books and music. I was tagged by Daniel, who also created this tag, and I had a lot of fun doing it! Thanks for the tag, Daniel. If y'all don't know his blog by now, you really should. Rules: Thank and link back to tagger. …

Recommendations for… books if you liked the Handmaid’s Tale

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 a bit dead lately so). Today I'm doing recommendations for books if you liked The Handmaid’s Tale. With the TV series being back …

How to: make a DNF shelf on Goodreads!

Welcome to my how to blogging advice series! Today, I'm answering the age-old question of how to make an exclusive DNF shelf on Goodreads! Goodreads automatically gives you three shelves that are mutually exclusive: Read, Currently Reading, and Want to Read. Being mutually exclusive means that a book can only be on one of the shelves. …