August reading plans (not a TBR)

Happy Monday, y'all! I hope all is well and you had a great weekend. Today I thought I would talk a bit about my August reading plans, because I've made some tentative plans. This is not a TBR because I don't like TBRs because I'm stubborn and don't like being told what to do, even …

July wrap-up!

Hi friends and fellow book lovers! July is over, August is upon us, and I am once again asking where the weeks have gone. Books Read Big Water by Andrea Curtis: 3.5 starsThe Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates: 3 starsThe Stone Collection by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm: 3.5 starsCatch and Kill by Ronan Farrow: 5 starsKindred by …

What to read next: a flowchart

Hey, gals and pals, I hope all is well! I think we all know the struggle of not knowing what to read, or not being able to find something that fits our mood. So, I made a flow chart! Below, you'll find a flow chart I made recommending what to read based on your mood. …

You guess my favourite books!

Hi pals and gals, happy Friday! I hope you've been having a great week so far. I love talking about my favourite books, obviously. And I've talked about them a ton, so I feel like it's pretty obvious what my favourite books are. So, I thought today, I'd try a bit of a different but …

Mini review: Spellbook of the Lost and Found

Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle From Goodreads One stormy summer night, Olive and her best friend, Rose, begin to lose things. It starts with simple items like hair clips and jewellery, but soon it’s clear that Rose has lost something bigger; something she won’t talk about. Then Olive meets three wild, …

Reassessing my Top TBR list

Happy Friday, friends and foe! Today I thought I would talk a bit about my Top To-Read, or Top TBR, list on Goodreads. I've talked a bit about it here, but essentially it's a list I made on Goodreads for books I want to get to soon. This list started as a combination of books …

Mini review: Bad Feminist

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay From Goodreads In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years and commenting on the state of feminism today. The portrait that emerges is …

Some queer book recommendations because even though pride might be over, reading queer books never is

Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend! Today, I thought I would recommend some queer books, as well as talk about some queer books on my TBR. As you likely know, June was pride. But, I think it's important that we read queer books all the time, not just in a designated …

Revisiting my five-star predictions + more predictions!

Happy Monday, gals and pals! I've now done a couple of posts where I predicted some books I thought would be five-star reads, which you can read here and here, as well as a post revisiting those predictions, which you can read here. It's been a while since those posts, so today I thought I'd go …

Mid Year Freak Out Tag: 2020 edition

Hello, friends and foe! I hope all is well. Today, I'm doing the Mid Year Freak Out Tag! I saw everyone doing this tag a couple of weeks ago and was feeling left out, so I decided to hop on the bandwaggon two weeks later and do it myself (I actually wrote this a while …

Book review: This is How You Lose the Time War

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone From Goodreads Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. . Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. …

June wrap-up!

Hi friends and fellow book lovers! I cannot believe June is over! Where is the time going!!!!! Books Read Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay: 4.5 stars, rounded to fourSpellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle: 4 starsSo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo: 5 starsThe Belles by Dhonielle Clayton: 2.5 …