Have I read the books on my Booktube Spin TBRs?

Happy Wednesday, friends! Hope your week has been off to a great start. So my friend on Booktube, Rick MacDonnell, does this thing on his channel called the Booktube Spin, where you create a numbered TBR, Rick spins a wheel, and whatever number it lands on, you read the corresponding book. I think we've done …

Books I have on hold at the library (pt. 4)

Happy Friday, friends! I've done a couple of posts where I talked about the books I had on hold at the library, and thought I'd do another one. For the past couple of years, I had 10-20 books on hold at my library at any given time. The result of that was that I didn't …

Books I’ve acquired so far in 2022

Hello, friends and book lovers! Look, a non-review or wrap-up post! 🎉 Today, I thought I'd talk about some of the books I've acquired in 2022. One of my goals for this year was to not buy any new books until I've read 15 from my physical TBR. BUT that goal had a caveat that …

Mini Review: Seven Days in June

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams From Goodreads Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, …

Mini review: Last Call

Last Call by Elon Green From Goodreads The Last Call Killer preyed upon gay men in New York in the ‘80s and ‘90s and had all the hallmarks of the most notorious serial killers. Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, the skyhigh murder rates, and the AIDS epidemic, his murders have been almost …

2022 reading plans

Hello, friends, happy Friday! Today I'm talking about my 2022 reading plans: the backlist books I want to read in 2022, the 2022 releases I want to read, and other general reading goals and plans! Overall goals and plans Goodreads goal: 35 books. I like to keep my goal reasonable for me, and three-ish books …

2021 reading wrap-up

Hello, friends! Today is my 2021 reading wrap-up, which will be fairly long and statistics-filled, because I love stats. So without further ado, here are the books I read in 2021! Key (📚) = owned prior to 2021(🇨🇦) = Canadian author(🌾) = Indigenous author(🌈) = LGBTQ2S+ author or representation(📖) = on TBR prior to 2021(🎶) …

Anticipated 2022 releases

Happy Friday, friends! I took a day off this week and actually had some time to blog! So I thought I would write a post of my 2022 anticipated releases. There are a ton of books I'm really excited about, some by authors I've read from before, some that sounds like they were written for …

Christmas wishlist

Hello, friends and book lovers! I hope your December has been off to a good start. Today, I thought I would talk about my Christmas book wishlist! I'm very privileged in that I have friends and family that support my reading and buy me lots of books for Christmas, so I thought I would share …

A needlessly long review of a 3 star book: Honey Girl

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 …

Books described with clickbait titles

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 …

Books on my TBR: books about anger

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 …