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Happy (almost) December, friends! I hope your November was great! Mine was super busy with work and the bar course, but I did manage to do some reading! I only posted one blog post, but it was honestly a nice break. We're coming up to my favourite time of the year, yearly wrap-up posts! So … Continue reading November wrap-up!
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa From Goodreads In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the deep connection felt between two writers centuries apart. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his … Continue reading A quick DNF review: A Ghost in the Throat
Happy November, friends! And Happy Halloween! I hope you all have (or had) fun Halloween plans. October was super busy with work, and it's only going to get busier. But anyway, let's talk about the books I read this month! Books Read The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: 3.5 starsLast Call by Elon Green: 4 … Continue reading October wrap-up!
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers From Goodreads With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one … Continue reading A needlessly long review of a 3 star book: Honey Girl
Happy Tuesday, friends! Today I'm doing a tag, which is my first in a while. This is the In or Out Book Tag, created by my pal Rick from BookTube. Essentially, you give your thoughts and opinions on different tropes and other book-related topics, and say whether you're "in" (you like it) or "out" (you … Continue reading In or Out Book Tag
Hello, friends, happy Friday! Today's blog post is inspired by Bertie @ Luminosity Library, so please go check out their post because it is way funnier than mine. Thank you, Bertie, for letting me steal your idea! Essentially, I'm going to be describing some of my favourite books using clickbaity titles. You know, the really … Continue reading Books described with clickbait titles
Hey friends! It's another instalment of 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 small, provide the … Continue reading Books on my TBR: books about anger
Hello, friends and book lovers! It has been a while since I did a good, old fashioned book recommendations post, so that's what we're doing today. Today I'm recommending some standalones, which are personally my favourite type of book. I feel like series are more loved and recommended, but standalones deserve love too. I tried … Continue reading Recommending some standalones
Hello, friends and book lovers! Happy Friday, I hope all is well! Before we really get into the post, I just wanted to say sorry for being a little absent lately. Work has been super busy, so between work, working on passing the bar, having an apartment and having to take care of that and … Continue reading Auto-buy authors
Happy Friday, friends! Today, I thought I would discuss some of the books I want to read before the end of the year. My goal is to read 50 books, and I've read 45 so far. I also have some books that I have planned to read, so I thought I would talk about the … Continue reading Books I want to read before the end of the year
Happy Monday, friends! Today we're going to be talking about some books I'd recommend you read if you don't like reading. The idea for this post was inspired by an upcoming Top Ten Tuesday theme, so thanks to Jana for the idea! When picking these books, I tried to pick things that were fun and … Continue reading What to read if you don’t like reading
Happy October, friends! It is crazy to me that we're already in fucking October. Being totally honest, as I'm writing this, I don't have any posts drafted for October, so I may be a bit absent. I plan to write some in the next couple of weeks, but apologies if they're not super exciting or … Continue reading September wrap-up!
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