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 […]
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 […]
March was a month full of ups and downs for me. The weather couldn’t decide if it wanted to be cold or warm, my energy and motivation couldn’t decide if it wanted to be at high levels or low levels, and the rain really did a number on […]
In the Shadow of the Greenbrier Thank you to NetGalley, Penguin Random House, and Ashley Hewlett for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. For fans of Pam Jenoff and Diane Chamberlain, a deeply poignant multigenerational Jewish family saga set around the […]
I finished February with 29 ARCs left to be read. Spring is definitely in the air, and I’m happy to see the weather starting to warm up and things starting to grow again. March was a busy month for me, but I still got a lot accomplished. I […]
It’s already the last Tuesday in March, and it definitely feels like it. The weather is all over the place to the point where I’m never sure what it’s going to be like outside at any moment in time. I just need to leave the house with a […]
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: “Augusta Stern did not want to retire. She […]
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