July wrap-up!

Hi friends and fellow book lovers! July is over, August is upon us, and I am once again asking where the weeks have gone. Books Read Big Water by Andrea Curtis: 3.5 starsThe Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates: 3 starsThe Stone Collection by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm: 3.5 starsCatch and Kill by Ronan Farrow: 5 starsKindred by …

What to read next: a flowchart

Hey, gals and pals, I hope all is well! I think we all know the struggle of not knowing what to read, or not being able to find something that fits our mood. So, I made a flow chart! Below, you'll find a flow chart I made recommending what to read based on your mood. …

You guess my favourite books!

Hi pals and gals, happy Friday! I hope you've been having a great week so far. I love talking about my favourite books, obviously. And I've talked about them a ton, so I feel like it's pretty obvious what my favourite books are. So, I thought today, I'd try a bit of a different but …

Reassessing my Top TBR list

Happy Friday, friends and foe! Today I thought I would talk a bit about my Top To-Read, or Top TBR, list on Goodreads. I've talked a bit about it here, but essentially it's a list I made on Goodreads for books I want to get to soon. This list started as a combination of books …

Some queer book recommendations because even though pride might be over, reading queer books never is

Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend! Today, I thought I would recommend some queer books, as well as talk about some queer books on my TBR. As you likely know, June was pride. But, I think it's important that we read queer books all the time, not just in a designated …

Revisiting my five-star predictions + more predictions!

Happy Monday, gals and pals! I've now done a couple of posts where I predicted some books I thought would be five-star reads, which you can read here and here, as well as a post revisiting those predictions, which you can read here. It's been a while since those posts, so today I thought I'd go …

Mid Year Freak Out Tag: 2020 edition

Hello, friends and foe! I hope all is well. Today, I'm doing the Mid Year Freak Out Tag! I saw everyone doing this tag a couple of weeks ago and was feeling left out, so I decided to hop on the bandwaggon two weeks later and do it myself (I actually wrote this a while …

Book review: This is How You Lose the Time War

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone From Goodreads Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. . Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. …

June wrap-up!

Hi friends and fellow book lovers! I cannot believe June is over! Where is the time going!!!!! Books Read Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay: 4.5 stars, rounded to fourSpellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle: 4 starsSo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo: 5 starsThe Belles by Dhonielle Clayton: 2.5 …

Recommendations based on emojis (part two)

Happy Monday, gals and pals! A couple of weeks ago, I gave some recommendations based on emojis you gave me. I went to Twitter to beg for help with another blog post, and y'all gave me some emojis to give recommendations for. I got a ton of responses, so thank you so much to everyone …

Book review: Untamed

Untamed by Glennon Doyle From Goodreads Four years ago, Glennon Doyle—bestselling Oprah-endorsed author, renowned activist and humanitarian, wife and mother of three—was speaking at a conference when a woman entered the room. Glennon looked at her and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’ve Added to my TBR and Forgotten Why

Happy Tuesday everyone! It has been literal months since I did a Top Ten Tuesday, which you can learn more about here. But I really liked the topic for this week and thought it was super interesting. Also I pushed this post back a couple of weeks to make way for BLM-related posts, which is …