This has been a rough week and an even rougher weekend, as I’m still trying to adjust to being unable to do anything close to what I was able to before. Over the weekend, my mother got sick, and has been feeling rotten. I have been trying my […]
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: Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your […]
Once Was Willem Author: M.R. Carey Genre: Fantasy Publication Date: March 4, 2025 Publisher: Orbit Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. From bestselling author M.R. Carey comes an utterly unique and enchantingly dark […]
Daily Mindfulness: A 31 Day Guide to Mental Clarity Author: Alex Smith-Powell Genre: Self-help Publication Date: February 27, 2025 Publisher: Victory Editing NetGalley Co-Op Thank you to NetGalley and Victory Editing NetGalley Co-Op for providing access to an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. […]
Today’s prompt was scheduled as things characters have said. While reading, character statements are wonderful, but I never remember the quotes once I’ve finished reading. I’ve never been drawn to copying down quotes, but maybe I should start? Instead, I want to flip things around and do a […]
Love Author: Maayan Eitan Genre: Literary Fiction, Short Stories Publication Date: March 7, 2022 Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Love is a fever dream of a novella about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification and real love. Startlingly intimate and […]
The Sirens Author: Emilia Hart Genre: Historical Fantasy Publication Date: March 4, 2025 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. A story of sisters separated by hundreds of years but bound […]
Hello February! January has become a month full of joy mixed with a drop of sadness for my family since my father passed six years ago. We have always had a lot of January birthdays in the family, and my dad had one in January as well. But […]
Hopefully the new year is being good to you. Today’s prompt is bookish goals for 2025, and I am here for it. I’ve always been a hardcore goal oriented person, but in the last year or so, I had to relax things a little bit. Okay, a lot. […]
Today is the last Sunday Bookish Discussion of 2024, and I wanted today’s topic to echo the reflection that I naturally do at the end of the year, so I’m talking about Wrap Up Posts today. When I first started blogging, I loved checking out everyone else’s wrap […]
