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: “It is easier to track an animal—or a […]
Wandering Stars Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There There —winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American […]
For today’s prompt, we were given a pretty broad topic of May flowers, and left to ourselves as far as what we wanted to do with this. Where I live, the flowers are all starting to bloom, and I can’t go anywhere without seeing them. I decided to […]
The Boy with the Star Tattoo Thank you to William Morrow Paperbacks and Tess Day for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. From the acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love […]
I finished March with 24 ARCs left to be read. Happy May! The month of April turned out to be unexpectedly busy for me, well … busier than I was already expecting. Between the weather getting nicer, Passover and family visiting, needing shoulder surgery (which I’m having today, […]
Today’s prompt idea was petty reasons I’ve DNF’d a book, but I typically don’t DNF books for petty reasons. I say typically because there was that one time …. FINE. I’ll tell you since you twisted my arm. I’ve lived within a short drive of a town called […]
Thanks for stopping by—I know I haven’t been the most consistent with these posts, but I’m trying my best. This week I decided to discuss a topic that isn’t contentious, but is a strongly held personal preference. Today’s topic is heroes or villains: which one do you prefer? […]
I’m feeling personally called out by this week’s prompt, which is unread books sitting on my shelves I want to read soon (bonus points if you tell us how long it’s been sitting on your shelf waiting for you.) A lot of the people who read my blog […]
Since I’m awful at planning, I decided to take this week’s prompt in a whole new direction. It’s hard to talk about planning vacations when I have loved ones at risk of war, and I’m expecting a new round of antisemitism. Instead of talking about characters I’d like […]
This week’s prompt was a freebie, and something in me decided to get creative. The topic that I decided to go with is books I was surprised I loved. We’ve all had those disappointing experiences where there was a book that we were convinced we would love and […]
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