Books that incorporate religion

Happy Friday, friends! Today I'm discussing some books that incorporate religion. I've always found religion and people's relationship to religion really interesting. I've always been interested in how religion shapes people's lives, so it's always particularly interesting when that's an aspect of books. So I thought it could be interesting to discuss some books where …

Favourite books of 2019

Hi friends, and welcome to my first wrap-up post of the year! Today, I'm going to be discussing my favourite books of 2019. I read a lot of mediocre books this year, honestly, but I also read a lot of books that I really enjoyed. So here are my top ten (eleven) books of the …

Some mini reviews of books I loved

Hi everyone! I hope you had a great week and are looking forward to a great weekend! Today, I have a bunch of mini reviews for you. For books that I loved and really enjoyed, I often don't have a ton to say other than "I loved and really enjoyed this", so it makes writing …

Book review: Sawkill Girls

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand From Goodreads Who are the Sawkill Girls? Marion: the new girl. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she’s sure she’ll never find. Zoey: the pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she’s …

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 …

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 …

Review: Women Talking

Women Talking by Miriam Toews From Goodreads One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for …

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 …

#TBT: books I loved in high school

Today I thought I'd do a bit of a throwback post. I'm going to talk about some of the books that I loved in high school. I feel like I don't talk about a lot of these books as much as they deserve, and wanted to gush about some of my old favourites. The Hunger …

Top Ten Tuesday October 9: longest books I’ve read

Happy Tuesday everyone!! Learn more about Top Ten Tuesday here! Today the topic is longest books I've ever read. This is according to Goodreads, so the format might be different than the format I read. So just keep that in mind! Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling: 870 pages A Game of …

Mini review: Persepolis

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi From Goodreads Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the …

Books from Goodreads I don’t remember: Part 2

See Part 1 here! Basically, this is where I go through my read list on good reads and find the books I don't remember anything about. Hold Still by Nina LaCour An arresting story about starting over after a friend’s suicide, from a breakthrough new voice in YA fiction Dear caitlin, there are so many …