As always, it’s hard to choose a TBR that I think there’s any chance of me sticking with. Even more so when the world is in such chaos (and, because of it, I have toddler to entertain at home, with no playdates or trips to the park, potentially for weeks). But there are several READ MORE
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TOP TEN TUESDAY | FUN BOOKS
I have to admit that one of the things that fell off my radar with becoming a mom was the time I spent on social media. Instead of scrolling Twitter, any time I have on my phone I use to read ebooks. Sometimes that’s all the time I have to read. So I’m going READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES
This was a fun one! I spent longer than I likely should have combing my shelves and TBR lists to find one-word titles, particularly ones that are interesting on-word titles. READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | LAST 10 BOOK HANGOVERS
In looking back over the books I’ve read in the past couple of years, I was surprised by how few immersed me enough to leave me with that book hangover feeling when I finished them. Perhaps it’s partly reading more non-fiction – it doesn’t feel quite the same as reading a fictional plot and READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | LOVE FREEBIE
I’m doing a bit of a twist on love. I’ve never been hugely into Valentine’s Day, and I don’t read books about romance very often. But that doesn’t mean I don’t value a story that has love at its heart. I just value all different kinds of love. So here are a few kinds READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | OLIVE KITTERIDGE – ELIZABETH STROUT
I have to be honest, I didn’t really want to read this book. But the sequel, Olive, Again, came out this year and I knew there was a good chance it would show up on the list for the BookTube Prize. I am trying to read some of the books I think either will READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | 5 STAR PREDICTIONS
This is an exciting post, because I’ve been meaning to write one on this very topic for a while! I feel like most of the books on my TBR shelves (hundreds at this point) are ones that I at least feel have the potential to be 5-star reads, and a lot of them I READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOK COVER FREEBIE
I’m a sucker for book covers that appeal to me. I don’t know if it’s because my dad is a designer and my mom is an art lover, so I’ve always been surrounded by beautiful art, or if it’s just a peculiarity of mine. Whatever the reason, I have a lot of trouble bringing READ MORE
QUARTERLY WRAP-UP | OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2019
I started off autumn doing pretty well with my reading, but it kind of tapered off. November I got the worse cold of my entire life that turned into some kind of bacterial infection (I’ll save you the details, but suffice it to say it was not pleasant). Then as I was recovering from READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | LATEST ADDITIONS TO MY SHELVES
I’m writing this in advance, so this is more the books I added to my shelves before the second week of January. And they’re ones I’m very excited about! These two were presents from my wonderful husband for Christmas. I have yet to get into Elena Ferrante’s work, though I’ve read small bits READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | JUST MERCY – BRYAN STEVENSON
This is another of those books that I want to review simply by saying it’s a vital read, and you should go pick it up. End of review. Of course I will try to go into more detail, because that’s not very persuasive. But it’s hard to know where to start. This book is READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKISH DISCOVERIES I MADE IN 2019
This is a tough prompt, mostly because I can’t really remember which I came across this year, last year or the year before! Time tends to meld into one continuous blur these days. So some of these might not be accurate on the timeline, but still are awesome nonetheless! Musicians Can Be Awesome Writers READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASES JAN-JUN 2020
There are only a few books that have been announced for release in the first half of 2020 that I’m over-the-moon excited to get my hands on. But there are several others that look interesting and that I wouldn’t mind checking out. Here are a mixture of the two: READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | FAVE BOOKS I READ THIS YEAR
I had some very high highs (and some pretty low lows, but fortunately that’s not what we’re here to discuss!) in my 2019 reading. There are several books that have been added to my all-time faves, and a lot I highly recommend that you check out! Here are the top ten: Non-Fiction: READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BLUE NIGHTS – JOAN DIDION
Blue Nights picks up pretty much where The Year of Magical Thinking leaves off. When The Year of Magical Thinking was published, Joan Didion’s daughter had passed away, but she had not written about it in the book. The book dealt, instead, with the loss of her husband who died of a heart attack READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS I HOPE TO FIND UNDER MY TREE
I rarely find books under my tree. Mostly because no one (even me) can keep track of which I already have, let alone which I most want. So I don’t realistically expect to see any there this year – though if I’m very lucky there might be a gift card I can put towards READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | MY NAME IS WHY – LEMN SISSAY
I first heard of Lemn Sissay in a YouTube video. He is a poet, and I was very impressed with his eloquence and thoughtfulness. He briefly mentioned a bit about his childhood – the restrictions put on his reading by his parents, his relocation into state-run institutional homes at the age of twelve, and READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | MY WINTER TBR
As you know, I am hopeless at TBRs. So I’m not saying I will read these before the end of the year, just that there’s a higher chance for these ones than the rest of my millenia-long reading list! I’m hoping to participate in the BookTube Prize as a judge in 2020, so I’m READ MORE