Mini review: Unwind

Unwind by Neal Shusterman From Goodreads Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of …

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Discussion: cancel culture and the book community

Another day, another discussion I am anxious to post. Today I wanted to talk about something that I feel like we, the book community, need to work on: cancel culture. Please bear with me and hear me out throughout this discussion, and remember that these are my opinions and you can agree or disagree with …

Deciding the fate of overused tropes in fantasy

I love a good fantasy novel. I don't read it a ton, but when I do, I generally enjoy it. But there are some tropes in fantasy that are overused. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Tropes are tropes for a reason: they make a plot interesting. But I thought it'd be fun to go …

My favourite spam comments

Hi friends! Normally on Tuesdays, I do either TTT or T5T or Tag Tuesday. But I'm in the middle of finals right now (when I'm typing this, I should be studying for my contracts final, and when you're reading this, I'll be studying for my final final of first year!), so I don't have a …

The lowest-rated books on my Goodreads

Happy Thursday, everyone! Today, I thought it would be fun to go through and look at which books on my Goodreads Read shelf have the lowest overall ratings and give my thoughts on them! Also, disclaimer: I'm sorry if you enjoy any of these books. I promise I'm not trying to bash them! Sometimes books just …

Tag Tuesday: the behind the blogger tag!

Happy Tuesday, everyone!! Today I'm back with another tag, today the tag by our fave, Ellyn! She created the Behind the Blogger tag, and it's a lot of fun. So, thanks Ellyn for creating the tag and tagging me to do it! The rules: Thank the person who nominated you Answer all the questions down …

Thank you!

Happy Saturday, everyone! Yesterday, I hit 1,000 followers on this blog. And I just wanted to hop on here to say thank you all so so much. When I started this blog almost three years ago, I never knew how much fun it would be. But I've found a wonderful and supportive community, and I …

Most original book covers (jk)

Happy Friday, everyone! I was going to write a post about my favourite covers on my TBR, but as I was going through my TBR, I noticed several trends in book covers. As we know, I like calling out petty things. So I thought that today, I would call out some trends in book covers. …

Top Ten Tuesday April 2: Things That Make Me Pick Up a Book

Happy Tuesday everyone!! It has been a minute and a half since I did a Top Ten Tuesday, which you can learn more about here! Today the topic is Things That Make Me Pick Up a Book. There are a lot of things that will draw me to a book, and I think it's fun to …

Giving my blog searchers what they want

So you may remember from last week, I did a post where I looked at what my blog search terms were, or what people had searched on my blog/to get to my blog. Two different searchers related to book recommendations: one of us is lying similar book and recommendations of books for.people who liked foght club. Because …

March wrap-up

HOW is March over? To me, it felt like it dragged but also went by so quickly, you know? Books Read None 😦 I haven't made any headway on The Secret History, and I was too busy to read this month. Reviews posted Book review: the Power: 3.5 stars, rounded to 4 Book reviews: Shanghai Girls …

Top 5 Tuesday: books set in space

It has been a little while since I participate in Top 5 Tuesday, and I honestly wasn't sure I was going to be able to do this topic. Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the lovely Shanah at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit here for the upcoming topics! This week, the …