First third reviews: fiction

Hi friends, I hope all is well! Today is the second half of my first third reviews! Last year, I forced myself to write mini reviews for all the books I read, and posted those reviews periodically. I really liked it and being able to talk about all the books, so I'm doing it again …

Past hauls: have I read them?

Hello, friends and book readers! In the past, I've done posts where I looked at my past anticipated release posts and past TBRs to see how many of the books I've read. And I thought it'd be fun today to do that, but for books I've hauled since having this blog. This isn't a complete …

First third reviews: nonfiction

Hi gals and pals, I hope all is well! Last year, I wrote mini reviews for all the books I read to push myself to review all the books I read. I then posted those reviews every four months in a bit of a wrap-up. So that's what we're doing today! The first couple months …

Books on my TBR: poetry collections

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 …

Summer reading plans

Hello, friends and book lovers! I hope all is well. As you are reading this, I am driving across the country in a uHaul to move home from school. The important thing about this is that I'm done school! I start work at the end of June, so I have a few weeks to just …

Some memoir recommendations

Hello, friends and book lovers! Today, I'm giving some recommendations for memoirs. I love memoirs, partially (largely) because I'm a nosy person and partially because I think it's a great way to learn about the world from a different perspective. I also think they're a great way to read more nonfiction if you find nonfiction …

Book review: The Mars Room

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner From Goodreads It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is …

Books on my TBR: books I’ve never talked about

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 I rated 4.5 stars, but rounded to 4

Hello, everyone, happy Monday! Today, I have a bit of a cheeky post that probably won't make a ton of sense if you're not on book twitter (sorry about that). I don't want to rehash everything here because I've already spent a lot of time dunking on the author. Instead, I thought I could do …

Mini review: Red River Girl

Red River Girl: the Life and Death of Tina Fontain by Joanna Jolly From Goodreads On August 17, 2014, the body of fifteen-year old runaway Tina Fontaine was found in Winnipeg's Red River. It was wrapped in material and weighted down with rocks. Red River Girl is a gripping account of that murder investigation and the unusual …

Discussion: the groundhog day trope

Hello everyone, happy Friday! Today I'm doing kind of a discussion post. I noticed recently that I really enjoy the Groundhog Day trope, or timeloop trope, where a character or characters experience the same day/week/month/time period several times. I don't know what it is about this trope or these books, but I always really enjoy …

Books on my TBR: recent fiction additions

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 …