I finished April with 22 ARCs left to be read. Hello June! While summer is my least favorite season, the month starts out strong with some nice celebrations in my family—a birthday and an anniversary, and I already know that my group of friends is going to plan […]
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: “This wasn’t the first time Daniel Braithwaite had […]
So far, I’ve had a bang-up year for getting my hands on books. Reading them, however, is a completely different activity. This week’s prompt actually feels like it was made for me, since it is about books I was super excited to get my hands on but still […]
I’m really excited for this week’s prompt, which is authors I’d love a new book from. Jana explains that these could be authors that have passed away, who have retired from writing, who have inexplicably gone quiet, or who might just not be able to keep up with […]
Song of the Huntress Thank you to Redhook and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The acclaimed author of Sistersong transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, feminist fantasy in this stunning tale […]
I can never, ever remember quotes from books. It’s like that part of my brain has just been powered down or something, but I love reading all the quotes that people have found meaningful. Instead, I’m going to go in a completely different direction, I know, try to […]
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 […]
April was hectic for me. The weather was gross, with windy rainstorms for so much of the month, and on top of that, we had the kitchen redone. It was spur of the moment, so a lot of the month was spent wondering where things were and just […]
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 […]
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