Christmas book haul

Merry (belated) Christmas, and happy holidays, everyone! I hope everyone had a lovely  and relaxing holiday. Sorry for disappearing for a few days. I finished finals and got home for the holidays, and just wanted to chill and read for a few days. This is the first time I've used my laptop since my last …

New Goodreads Shelf: Read Soon or Remove

So, you may have seen my Decluttering my Goodreads post last week, and I talked about moving a book to a new shelf. I wanted to write a post about this new shelf, mainly to hold me accountable and also because I thought someone might be interested (probably not, but I'm nosy so I'd be …

Tag Tuesday: My Bad Reading Habits Tag

Happy Tuesday, everyone! And welcome to another Tag Tuesday! I hope all is well and that you're getting excited for the Christmas season. Today we're doing the My Bad Reading Habits Tag, which I was tagged for by the lovely Orangutan Librarian and Callum! They both have wonderful blogs that you should check out if …

Monthly recommendations: relatable characters

Find out more about the Goodreads group here! This month is relatable characters, which I think is such a fun topic! Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman The protagonist of this book, Kiko, has social anxiety. And parts of it were painfully relatable. Like holy shit, I'd never read something that I related to more. Especially the part …

Book review: Strange the Dreamer

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor From Goodreads The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder …

Mini Halloween Book Tag

Happy Halloween everyone!! Two posts today!!! Thank you very much to Audrey, who tagged me to do this fun Halloween tag. It's short and sweet and a perfect Halloween-themed post. I didn't do anything Halloween-y this year, which was kind of sad. But I have this post, which is something at least! PUMPKIN: A feel-good …

The Sunshine Blogger Award!

Happy Sunday everyone! I'm back again with another overdue awards post, today the Sunshine Blogger Award, which is one of my favourites. Thank you so much to Sav @ Booked on a Feeling, Caidyn and Chantel @ BW Reviews, and Jayati @ Junky Writing. They all have some of my favourite bloggers, so make sure …

Monthly recommendations: fall reads

Find out more about the Goodreads group here! This month is technically creepy reads, but I don't read a ton of creepy books. So instead I did fall reads! Books that are perfect to read in the fall. The Power by Naomi Alderman I just feel like the vibe of this book is very fall-esque. It's kind …

Into the Wild: book vs. movie

Into the Wild by John Krakauer Paraphrased from Goodreads In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Chris McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it …

Physical TBR Update

You may remember a while back I did a physical TBR post. I thought I'd go through and see which ones I've read, which I still need to read, and which I've reconsidered. Read/currently reading Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor: read, 4.5 stars The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake: read, 3.5 stars The …

Monthly recommendations: binge-worthy series

Find out more about the Goodreads group here! This month is binge-worthy series!! I'm honestly really bad about reading series. I tend to read the first book and leave it at that. But there are some that I love and could fly through!   The Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown We all know how much …

Thursday’s Top 4: books that make you want to time travel

Find out more about Thursday’s Top 4 here! It’s basically a meme I started mainly for myself, but anyone can participate! Visit this page for the upcoming topics 🙂 This week is books that make you want to time travel! The Thief Lord by Cornelia FunkeThis book takes place in Venice in modern-ish times (like there's …