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: Romance novels don’t talk about what happens when […]
Welcome to 2024! This week’s prompt is favorite books of 2023 and we aren’t getting a moment to breathe before jumping into best of posts. I’m still working through a few reviews I have to write, but I guess it won’t hurt to put those off until tomorrow, […]
Hello, and welcome back to reality. It doesn’t exactly feel like reality though, does it? This is the time of year where I just spend a week mostly wearing pajamas, eating cheese, and wondering what day of the week it is. And I’m not even a cheese person. […]
This week’s prompt is bookish wishes, and I’m excited to talk about some of the books that are on my wishlist. I have a range of books on my wishlist, which I’m going to share here. There are a ton of books on my list, but here are […]
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: This is my first time doing this, but I figured […]
This week’s prompt is books on my winter 2023-2024 to-read list and I’m actually kind of excited about this topic for a change. Why is that, you might ask? Because you might have noticed that while I work through an ever-growing backlog of ARCs, my list of pleasure […]
This week’s topic is a freebie, and since Chanukah starts at sundown on Thursday night this year, I figured I would use this week’s post to highlight ten of my favorite Chanukah stories. I figured it works because of the heavy emphasis on Christmas books, and the recent […]
This week’s prompt gives us a bit of structure and a bit of leeway. It’s books set in X (pick a setting and share books that are all set there. This could be a specific continent or country, a state, in outer space, underwater, on a ship or […]
I might as well just call this week ‘Gratitude Week,’ because it feels like all my posts have been either book reviews or posts about what I’m grateful for. Today’s prompt is books I’m grateful for. And there’s so many books I can be grateful for, for a […]
This week’s prompt is reasons why I’m thankful for books, and it’s in honor of Thanksgiving here in the United States. I’m aware of the problematic nature of this holiday and its roots, and I am fully on the side of the Indigenous people. However, my family likes […]