The Listicle Tag

Thanks Katie for the nomination and prompt! Sorry this took me forever to get to, it was harder to find books that deal with grief than I thought. RULES: Create your own listicle tag, using the prompt from the person who tagged you. Tag the creator of the post (not-so-modern-girl!) so that she can read all your …

Summer reading wrap-up

I managed to read a lot of wonderful books this summer and I'm so happy! I've been in a reading slump for the past couple years (yes, years. university does that to you), where all I wanted to read were the same YA romances over and over again. But this summer I found some great …

Book review: A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Paraphrased from Goodreads In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A …

WWW Wednesday: July 26

Normally I participate in T5W, but this week's prompt (series that got better) wasn't working for me. I just couldn't think of anything more than Red Rising and Harry Potter. So instead I thought I'd do WWW Wednesday! WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. It’s very simple: answer …

2017 Book Goals

I wrote on my 2017 goals post that I wanted to read five new books, but I never really said what those five were. So I thought I’d write them down so I can refer back at the end of the year and see if I stuck to it. New reads: the Red Rising Trilogy by …