Thursday discussion: books with LGBTQ+ representation on my TBR

Happy Thursday, 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 …

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Tag Tuesday: My Name in Blogs Tag

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Today I'm doing a super fun tag, the May Name in Blogs Tag! I was tagged for this tag (19 years ago) by the lovely Kelly, who is one of the loveliest bloggers ever. Recently, I've been wanting to express my gratitude for the blogging community in some way, and this is a …

How to: introduction

Happy Saturday, everyone! The end of this month will mark three years since I started this blog! I started it summer, 2016, but didn't do a whole lot until summer, 2017. Since then, I've been fairly active and involved in the community, and it has been the best. To commemorate, I thought I'd do a …

Revisiting my 5-star predictions

Happy Wednesday, everyone! A while ago, I did a post where I predicted some books I thought would be 5-star reads, which you can read here and here! So today I thought I'd go over those and see how accurate I was. Five stars Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - ★★★★★ This book!!! I totally understand …

Best debut novels

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Today I'm back with another post inspired by Top 5 Tuesday, which is a weekly meme created by the lovely Shanah at the Bionic Bookworm. You can visit here for the upcoming topics! This week, the topic is top five debut novels. Tbh, I never know whether a book is a debut or not. …

May wrap-up

May is over and once again I am amazed at the ending of the month! Books Read The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne: 3 stars Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: 5 (million) stars A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard: 4 stars A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith: 4 stars Slide by …

My (somewhat underwhelming) reading year so far

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you had a lovely week and have great weekend plans! Today I thought I'd do a mid(ish) year wrap-up and talk about what I've read so far this year. Honestly, it's been a bit of a meh year. I haven't read anything bad, but I've only read one five-star book and …

Thursday discussion: books with LGBTQ+ representation I recommend

Happy Thursday, everyone! ICYMI: I've rebranded Thursday's Top 4 to be Thursday Discussion. TBH, I never liked the name TT4 and I didn't like how it was so similar to T5W or T5T, but I could never figure out what to do differently. But recently, I was having issues coming up with four things for each …

WWW Wednesday: May 29

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Today I thought I'd update y'all about my current reading situation by doing WWW Wednesday. WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. All you do is answer the three questions and leave a link to Sam’s post! The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? …

Tag Tuesday: the Spring Cleaning Book Tag

Happy Tuesday, everyone! I'm back with another Tag Tuesday! Today I'm doing the Spring Cleaning Book tag, even though it's essentially summer. I was tagged by Autumn @ Autumn Books. Thank you so much for the tag, Autumn! I'm not sure who created this tag, but if you know, please tell me so I can …

Updated Top TBR

Happy Friday, everyone! On Goodreads, I like to keep a "Top TBR" shelf, which are the books on my TBR I want to read soon. It's partially books that have been on my TBR for ages and I need to read soon, hyped books I want to get to, books I've been trying to read …

Mini review: Pinball, 1973

Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami From Goodreads The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelance translator, and his later efforts to reunite with the old pinball machine that he used to play. He describes living with a pair of identical unnamed female twins, who mysteriously appear …