October wrap-up!

Hello friends! Happy Halloween!!!! For once, October seemed like a normally-paced month. Things still happened very quickly, but it actually seems like the month happened. So without further ado, let's get into my wrap-up. Books Read The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang: 5 starsI Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver: 4.5 stars …

Books on my TBR: books I want to read as audiobooks

Hello, friends! Time to talk about some more books on my TBR! This is a series where I talk about a specific subset of books on my TBR. I've done a few posts of really long lists of books on my TBR, so for these posts I'm going to try to keep the list fairly …

Recommendations for… books you should listen to as audiobooks

Hi friends, I hope you had a great weekend! Today, I'm going to talk about some books I think you should listen to as an audiobook. I personally love listening to non-fiction audiobooks, so most of these books are non-fiction (I think all of them, actually). And they're all books that I think are particularly …

How I decide what books to buy

Hello, friends and fellow book lovers! I just wanted to start by saying sorry for the lack of posts the last few days. School has been super busy, and I honestly just haven't wanted to write blog posts, so I didn't. Most semesters, I have at least one class where I can slack a little …

Mini review: Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe From Goodreads In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most …

Recommending some standalones

Howdy, gals and pals! It has been a hot minute since I did a good old recommendations post. I've done a bunch of themed ones recently, but I wanted to do a regular recommendations post and talk about some books I've read and loved recently. So today I'm going to be talking about some standalones! …

Book review: I Hope we Choose Love

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom From Goodreads What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we …

Books on my TBR: memoirs

Hello, friends! Time to talk about some more books on my TBR! This is a series where I talk about a specific subset of books on my TBR. I've done a few posts of really long lists of books on my TBR, so for these posts I'm going to try to keep the list fairly …

Books on my TBR I don’t think I’ll like

Hello, friends and fellow book lovers! I hope your week has been going well so far and that you have fun plans for the weekend. This post was inspired by one of Marija's tweets lately, where she said something along the lines of "we should start doing 4-star prediction posts": https://twitter.com/insidemylibrary/status/1298784120642965507?s=20 I thought that was …