My Name is Emilia del Valle Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In this spellbinding historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The Wind Knows My Name, […]
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: “‘What am I going to do with you?’ […]
Six Days in Bombay Thank you to NetGalley and MIRA for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest opinion. From the New York Times bestselling author of THE HENNA ARTIST, this sweeping novel follows a young Anglo-Indian nurse who embarks on a journey from […]
April was a very hectic month for me. I started out the month on the couch during the days, so that I could be close to my mother. Since I live with her, I am often the one who does a lot of helping around the house as […]
Houses of Detention Thank you to Ari @ Mindbuck Media for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. So what’s a nice girl from a good family doing in a place like the Bronx House of Detention? Like many immigrants who flee […]
I finished March with 14 ARCs left to be read. I can only speak for myself, but April was a hot mess of a month over here. For the first half of the month, my mother was dealing with medical issues which are thankfully being addressed and treated. […]
Hello from the house of (literal) pain. I’m trying really hard to be upbeat. After spending the last two weeks in a subclinical flare of ulcerative colitis, things got a little worse and I spent a week where I was so sick that I could barely do anything […]
It has been a super busy week in my world, so packed full of appointments and other non-fun, grown-up activities that seven whole days got away from me without getting much else done. The one highlight of this past week has been attending a baby shower for my […]
Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, and if you celebrated holidays, I hope they were nice and low-stress. We had a nice, laid back end to Passover, and started the week off nicely. Maybe it’s because we didn’t have to do all the cooking we […]
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: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family […]
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