Happy February, and I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Last week was my birthday, and I got taken out to a nice Spanish restaurant to have dinner with family. It was a wonderful time, seeing my brothers was great, and even seeing one of my nephews! But […]
I finished December with 18 ARCs left to be read. January was a great month. There are multiple birthdays amongst my extended family, and within my immediate family, my brother, sister-in-law, and I all have birthday in January. We also remember my father on his birthday, which was […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Back then, when I was a young woman, […]
Those Fatal Flowers Thank you to NetGalley and Dell for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony collide in this epic adventure filled with sapphic longing and female rage—a debut novel […]
The Bookstore Keepers Thank you to NetGalley, Brilliance Publishing, and Amazon Original Stories for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. The Gibson sisters weren’t expecting to speak to each other ever again after Isabel ran off to New York and […]
Wow, this week’s prompt is a really great one, and it’s all about my top ten new-to-me authors I discovered in 2024. While I love reading books by the authors I love, I’ve also encountered some really great authors that I hadn’t read anything by. So I am […]
Good Dirt Thank you to Ballantine Books and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from […]
Hello! I had a super busy week, but enjoyed some R&R on the weekend. It wasn’t fun, but I finally got around to some chores that I had been neglecting. Although I must admit, it does feel better to not have those tasks hanging over my head, and […]
Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan Thank you to libro.fm for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook. I am offering my honest opinion voluntarily. The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan’s Sima medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “‘I hate you! I hate you! I hate […]