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 […]
Happy December! November was a really fun month for me—I was so excited to finally take a vacation and refresh my spirit. I hadn’t realized exactly how burnt out I was becoming until I had a break from my regular life. I’ll be returning home this week, and […]
This week’s prompt is books I was assigned to read in school, with bonus points for offering my own thoughts on the book. The vast majority of my schooling was long enough ago that I really had to think about the books that stood out in the vast […]
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: “It was seven in the evening, and Clara […]
It’s another Sunday, and that means we have another discussion ahead of us. This week I want to discuss creative license. This is when an author intentionally strays from accepted facts to achieve an artistic goal. I’ve encountered this most often in historical fantasy—where the author changes an […]
Benji Zeb is a Ravenous Werewolf Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: anxiety, on-page panic attack, antisemitism, racism, mention of death of a parent, xenophobia, homophobia Benji Zeb […]
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this book and audiobook in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: child abuse, alcoholism, animal abuse, parental abandonment, suicide attempt, domestic violence, murder, trauma […]
Thanks for stopping by—I know I haven’t been the most consistent with these posts, but I’m trying my best. This week I decided to discuss a topic that isn’t contentious, but is a strongly held personal preference. Today’s topic is heroes or villains: which one do you prefer? […]
A Letter to the Luminous Deep Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. A beautiful discovery outside the window of her underwater home prompts the reclusive E. to begin a correspondence with renowned scholar […]
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 […]
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