Some summery reads

Hi friends and fellow book lovers, I hope all is well! Today I'm going to be talking about some summery book recommendations. When I think of books I want to read in the summer, I want things that are either fast-paced and entertaining, or romances. It also helps if the books take place in the …

Spotlighting Indigenous authors

Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, a day to celebrate and recognize the Indigenous culture in Canada. And with recent horrific discoveries in Canada, I wanted to spotlight some Indigenous authors. So today, I'm going to talk about some of my favourite books by Indigenous authors, as well …

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 …

Recommendations for books with 20-something year-old protagonists

Happy Monday, fellow book lovers! I hope you had a great weekend. Today, I'm giving some recommendations on books with 20-something year-old protagonists! I often see people talking about how this is an age group not published about, which is false. These books are not as popular as YA, but they exist and they're not …

Recommendations for books with a ragtag crew/team of misfits/found family

Hello friends and fellow book lovers! Today I'm giving recommendations for a well-loved trope: found family/ragtag crew/team of misfits! I really love this trope, like most people, and wanted to talk about some of my favourite books with this trope. I will say off the bat that a lot of these are fairly popular books, …

What to read if you don’t know what to read

Hi friends! Today I'm giving some recommendations for what books to read if you don't know what to read. Sometimes it can be hard to find a book you're in the mood for, and you don't want to read a ton of synopses. So today, I'm going to try to pitch these books in a …

Books with fewer than 5,000 ratings on Goodreads you should read

Hello friends, happy Monday! I feel like I haven't done a recommendations post in ages, even though they're my favourite types of posts to do. So today, we're rectifying that. I'm going to be talking about some books with fewer than 5,000 ratings on Goodreads that you should read! I am always trying to read …

Recommendations for… books you should listen to as audiobooks

Hi friends, I hope you had a great weekend! Today, I'm going to talk about some books I think you should listen to as an audiobook. I personally love listening to non-fiction audiobooks, so most of these books are non-fiction (I think all of them, actually). And they're all books that I think are particularly …

Recommending some standalones

Howdy, gals and pals! It has been a hot minute since I did a good old recommendations post. I've done a bunch of themed ones recently, but I wanted to do a regular recommendations post and talk about some books I've read and loved recently. So today I'm going to be talking about some standalones! …

Recommending books based on your poor descriptions of your favourite books

Hello friends and fellow book lovers! It's time for another recommendations post based on some weird things. On twitter recently, I asked y'all for poor descriptions of your favourite books. Thank you to everyone who gave me bad descriptions! I am now going to attempt to give recommendations based on those poor descriptions! Hopefully I …

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 …

Indigenous authors to read for National Indigenous Peoples Day!

Happy Sunday, everyone! And happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! To celebrate, I thought I would highlight some of my favourite Indigenous authors, as well as some Indigenous authors I still have to read. Books I recommend A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott: this is one of the best non-fiction books I've …