First third reviews

Happy Monday, friends! The past couple of years, I've been doing round-ups of my reviews every four months as a way to ensure I'm reviewing every book I read. The reviews are usually fairly short (or they get their own post), but it's still a way for me to get my thoughts out. So, here …

April wrap-up!

Happy May, everyone! April seemed to fly by in a second, and I have a feeling May will be the same. Books Read The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder: 4.5 starsThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel: 5 stars Overall, an amazing month in terms of quality. Both of these …

Mini Review: Seven Days in June

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams From Goodreads Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, …

February and March wrap-up!

Hello hello, long time no see! Sorry for taking a bit of an unannounced hiatus. To be honest, I was just really busy and didn't feel like reading or blogging, so I simply didn't. I think I only read one book in February, so I thought I'd just wait and combine my two wrap-ups in …

Mini review: Last Call

Last Call by Elon Green From Goodreads The Last Call Killer preyed upon gay men in New York in the ‘80s and ‘90s and had all the hallmarks of the most notorious serial killers. Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, the skyhigh murder rates, and the AIDS epidemic, his murders have been almost …

January wrap-up!

Happy February, friends! I cannot believe the first month of the year is over already! I ended up not blogging as much as I had anticipated this month (I never even posted my 2021 favourites!), and I don't see that changing for February or March tbh; work is super busy the next couple of months, …

Last third reviews

Happy New Years, friends! I hope your 2022 has been off to a good start! Every four months, I do a round up of reviews for the books I read during those four months. I've been really bad at reviewing things the past few months, so this post is a little longer than usual and …

December wrap-up!

Happy end of December, friends! I hope you had a safe and wonderful winter break! Books Read She's Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard: 4.5 starsBirthday by Meredith Russo: 2 starsWatch Over Me by Nina LaCour: 4 starsDava Shastri's Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti: 4 stars Overall, a great reading month! I've had two …

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 …