November wrap-up + mini hiatus announcement

Hi gals and pals, I hope all is well with you! Today is the last day of November and thus my November wrap-up. I also just wanted to say that I'll be doing a mini-hiatus in December. School has just been a bit overwhelming lately and I haven't been enjoying blogging as much because of …

Book review: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See From Goodreads In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations—until a stranger appears at the village gate …

Thursday discussion: books I need to read before the end of 2019

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 …

Tag Tuesday: the quick fire fantasy tag

Happy Tuesday friends, I hope all is going well! Today I'm doing a tag, which I haven't done in a while. This one is curtesy of Hanna, and was created by Jo @ The Book Worm Dreamer. Thank you to both of you, Hanna for tagging me and Jo for creating the tag! RULES Thank …

Goodreads Bookshelf Tour: favourites (2)

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today is the first official instalment of my new Goodreads Bookshelf series! Inspired by Bella @ All Things Annabelle, every other week, I'll be going through the different shelves I have on Goodreads, explaining what they mean, and some of the books on there. Today is part two my favourites shelf! Again, this …

Three DNF Reviews

Happy Friday, y'all! Today I'm talking about the three books I've DNFed (did not finish) recently. I haven't been DNFing books lately because I've been reading books I was sure I would enjoy. But, recently, I've DNFed three books for various reasons, and thought I'd talk about those reasons today. A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine …

Non-fiction books on my TBR

Happy Wednesday, pals and gals! I hope your week has been going great. It's currently Non-Fiction November, and though I'm not participating, I did still want to talk about and highlight some non-fiction books. A couple weeks ago I did some recommendations, so today I thought I'd talk about some non-fiction books on my TBR! …

If you liked this popular book, try this less popular book

Happy Monday, pals! Today I'm doing another "if you liked this, try this" post, but for popular and less popular books. I always try to highlight less popular books and wanted to talk about some that I've read and enjoyed recently. I should say just to start that most of these books (if not all) …

Recent non-bookish favourites

Happy Friday, pals! Today I thought I would talk about some of my recent non-bookish favourites. I like doing these every so often to talk about things I wouldn't usually talk about but want to. Movies/TV shows Dirty Dancing: I watched this for the first time recently and I loved it, 10/10. Booksmart: I also watched this …

Thursday discussion: favourite childhood books

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 …

Novellas (short books) on my TBR

Happy Wednesday, friends! Today, in honour of Novellas in November, I thought I would talk about some novellas/short books on my TBR. Not all of these are novellas (some are plays, short stories, graphic novels, etc.), but a short book = a novella in my mind. Also, this is just a long list of a …

Top 5 Tuesday: authors I need to read

Happy Tuesday, gals and pals! Today is another Top 5 Tuesday. Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the lovely Shanah at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit here for the upcoming topics! Today the topic is authors I NEED to read! Which is a great topic, because there are so many authors I …