WWW Wednesday: April 24

Happy Wednesday! It has been almost a full year since I did a WWW Wednesday, but I've finally been reading again and I wanted to talk about the books I've been reading lately. WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. All you do is answer the three questions and …

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Mini review: Unwind

Unwind by Neal Shusterman From Goodreads Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of …

Tag Tuesday: Books I WANT to read, but don’t want to READ

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Today is another Tag Tuesday and instead of doing one of the 35 tags I've been tagged in, I thought I'd do a tag I wasn't tagged in! Today I'm doing the Books I WANT to read, but don’t want to READ tag, which is such a fun topic. There are so many books …

Discussion: cancel culture and the book community

Another day, another discussion I am anxious to post. Today I wanted to talk about something that I feel like we, the book community, need to work on: cancel culture. Please bear with me and hear me out throughout this discussion, and remember that these are my opinions and you can agree or disagree with …

Thursday’s Top 4: books I have mixed feelings about

Happy Thursday, everyone! Find out more about Thursday’s Top 4 here! It’s basically a meme I started mainly for myself, but anyone can participate! Visit this page for the upcoming topics 🙂 This week the topic is books you have mixed feelings about. I actually had a hard time finding books I had mixed feelings about. …

Deciding the fate of overused tropes in fantasy

I love a good fantasy novel. I don't read it a ton, but when I do, I generally enjoy it. But there are some tropes in fantasy that are overused. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Tropes are tropes for a reason: they make a plot interesting. But I thought it'd be fun to go …

Recommendations for… lesser-known diverse books

Happy Monday, everyone! Even though I participate in giving Monthly Recommendations, I thought I would start my own where every couple weeks I give recommendations for a specific topic. Today I'm doing recommendations for lesser-known diverse books! A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki: Asian rep, mental health rep This book has such an interesting exploration …

Review: Women Talking

Women Talking by Miriam Toews From Goodreads One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for …

The lowest-rated books on my Goodreads

Happy Thursday, everyone! Today, I thought it would be fun to go through and look at which books on my Goodreads Read shelf have the lowest overall ratings and give my thoughts on them! Also, disclaimer: I'm sorry if you enjoy any of these books. I promise I'm not trying to bash them! Sometimes books just …

Tag Tuesday: the behind the blogger tag!

Happy Tuesday, everyone!! Today I'm back with another tag, today the tag by our fave, Ellyn! She created the Behind the Blogger tag, and it's a lot of fun. So, thanks Ellyn for creating the tag and tagging me to do it! The rules: Thank the person who nominated you Answer all the questions down …

Most original book covers (jk)

Happy Friday, everyone! I was going to write a post about my favourite covers on my TBR, but as I was going through my TBR, I noticed several trends in book covers. As we know, I like calling out petty things. So I thought that today, I would call out some trends in book covers. …

Thursday’s Top 4: new releases I still need to read

Happy Thursday, everyone! Find out more about Thursday’s Top 4 here! It’s basically a meme I started mainly for myself, but anyone can participate! Visit this page for the upcoming topics 🙂 This week the topic is new releases you still need to read. I am the worst at reading new releases. I never know what books …