Top 5 Tuesday: authors I need to read

Happy Tuesday, gals and pals! Today is another Top 5 Tuesday. Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the lovely Shanah at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit here for the upcoming topics! Today the topic is authors I NEED to read! Which is a great topic, because there are so many authors I …

Goodreads Bookshelf Tour: favourites (1)

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today is the first official instalment of my new Goodreads Bookshelf series! Inspired by Bella @ All Things Annabelle, every other week, I'll be going through the different shelves I have on Goodreads, explaining what they mean, and some of the books on there. Today I'm going over my favourites shelf! Again, this …

Some musings on superiority in the online book community and the Goodreads Choice awards

Hello, pals and gals! Today I'm back with another ramble/discussion. Today, I'm talking about some feelings of superiority in the online book community and how it manifests in the community's reaction to the Goodreads Choice awards. Also, this is in no way to defend the Goodreads Choice awards. I think there are a ton of …

Decluttering my Goodreads TBR #12

Happy Wednesday, everyone! It's been a little while since I did one of these posts, but I thought it was time for a TBR declutter. You can read the others here! This was started by Lia @ Lost in a Story and is a good way to organize your Goodreads to-read list! It works like this: Go to …

Tag Tuesday: the Autumn Book Tag

Happy Tuesday, pals! It's been a minute and a half since I did a tag, but we're back today! Since it's fall and I'm a book blog, today I'm doing the Autumn Book tag, which I was tagged for by my bestest book pal Rebecca. Please go check out her blog if you haven't yet. …

October wrap-up!

October has now ended which is scary because I've been putting off so many things until November and now I have to do them. Books Read The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib: 4 stars A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott: 5 (million) stars The Rest Of Us Just …

Thursday discussion: best spooky settings

Happy Halloween, everyone! Welcome to this week's Thursday Discussion. Essentially, this is a biweekly meme where you write a post based on the prompt for that week. The post can be as long or as short as you want, and you can talk about as much or as little as you want. Visit this page …

Book review: Columbine

Columbine by Dave Cullen From Goodreads What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we "know" is wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on …

Goodreads Bookshelf Tour: to reread

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today is the first official instalment of my new Goodreads Bookshelf series! Inspired by Bella @ All Things Annabelle, every other week, I'll be going through the different shelves I have on Goodreads, explaining what they mean, and some of the books on there. Today I'm going over my to reread shelf. This …

Books I rated somewhat lower but still recommend

Happy Friday, pals! I hope your week has been lovely. Today I'm talking about some books that I rated somewhat lower but would still recommend. A lot of these were cases of "it wasn't for me" rather than the book actually being bad. Women Talking by Miriam Toews, rated 3 stars: this book was one …

Books everyone but me has read

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Today I am talking about some books that it seems everyone has read that I have yet to. Throughout school, I always had English teachers who were ~hip~ and ~cool~ and wanted to ensure the youth actually read the assigned books. This meant we read a lot of fun popular books, which …

Top Ten Tuesday October 22: books I’d give different titles

Happy Tuesday everyone! I'm back with another Top Ten Tuesday, which you can learn more about here! Two weeks in a row is the best TTT streak I've done in literal months, I think. Today the topic is books you'd give different titles, and what that title would be! This was so much fun and interesting (and harder …