Anticipated 2022 releases

Happy Friday, friends! I took a day off this week and actually had some time to blog! So I thought I would write a post of my 2022 anticipated releases. There are a ton of books I'm really excited about, some by authors I've read from before, some that sounds like they were written for …

Christmas wishlist

Hello, friends and book lovers! I hope your December has been off to a good start. Today, I thought I would talk about my Christmas book wishlist! I'm very privileged in that I have friends and family that support my reading and buy me lots of books for Christmas, so I thought I would share …

November wrap-up!

Happy (almost) December, friends! I hope your November was great! Mine was super busy with work and the bar course, but I did manage to do some reading! I only posted one blog post, but it was honestly a nice break. We're coming up to my favourite time of the year, yearly wrap-up posts! So …

A quick DNF review: A Ghost in the Throat

A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa From Goodreads In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the deep connection felt between two writers centuries apart. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his …

October wrap-up!

Happy November, friends! And Happy Halloween! I hope you all have (or had) fun Halloween plans. October was super busy with work, and it's only going to get busier. But anyway, let's talk about the books I read this month! Books Read The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: 3.5 starsLast Call by Elon Green: 4 …

A needlessly long review of a 3 star book: Honey Girl

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers From Goodreads With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one …

In or Out Book Tag

Happy Tuesday, friends! Today I'm doing a tag, which is my first in a while. This is the In or Out Book Tag, created by my pal Rick from BookTube. Essentially, you give your thoughts and opinions on different tropes and other book-related topics, and say whether you're "in" (you like it) or "out" (you …

Books described with clickbait titles

Hello, friends, happy Friday! Today's blog post is inspired by Bertie @ Luminosity Library, so please go check out their post because it is way funnier than mine. Thank you, Bertie, for letting me steal your idea! Essentially, I'm going to be describing some of my favourite books using clickbaity titles. You know, the really …

Books on my TBR: books about anger

Hey friends! It's another instalment of 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 small, provide the …

Recommending some standalones

Hello, friends and book lovers! It has been a while since I did a good, old fashioned book recommendations post, so that's what we're doing today. Today I'm recommending some standalones, which are personally my favourite type of book. I feel like series are more loved and recommended, but standalones deserve love too. I tried …

Auto-buy authors

Hello, friends and book lovers! Happy Friday, I hope all is well! Before we really get into the post, I just wanted to say sorry for being a little absent lately. Work has been super busy, so between work, working on passing the bar, having an apartment and having to take care of that and …

Books I want to read before the end of the year

Happy Friday, friends! Today, I thought I would discuss some of the books I want to read before the end of the year. My goal is to read 50 books, and I've read 45 so far. I also have some books that I have planned to read, so I thought I would talk about the …