Hello, everyone! How's everyone's March going? So, I pretty much always consider myself on a "book-buying ban". In a way, I guess this could be good as it seems like I'd be fairly strict and/or principled about the whole thing. Instead, it makes my slip-ups all the more normalized. And, honestly, I'm not really complaining!… Continue reading All the Books I’ve Bought Since the New Year | Book Haul
Hello, everyone! How's your week going? I'm feeling a lot better in terms of my reading as I just started Skyla Arndt's Together We Rot (a book I've been talking about starting for months now) and I'm finding it such a engaging read. Which is a real relief because I was beginning to wonder if… Continue reading Down the TBR Hole #6 | Sad YA, Speculative Inclinations, and Trying New Things
Hello, everyone! Happy March. 🙂 I'm elated to see warmer days lately where I'm at. Spring is slowly springing! I've been waking every morning to birds chirping and singing (a bit like the ones on this cover, actually -- especially since cardinals are actually Virginia's state bird). How is March treating you so far? Whenever… Continue reading This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone: Red and Blue Make Purple (Prose) | Book Review
Hello, everyone! How has your February been? The days have been such a blur lately. I think February has been mostly a month of tempering/moderating for me. The new year typically doesn't mean too much to me but, for whatever reason, this year filled me with such a huge burst of energy and and inspiration.… Continue reading February ’24 Wrap-Up: Finding Balance, Good Films, and The Bear
Hello, everyone! In an attempt to maximize my efficiency in terms of this blog and in my life otherwise, I've recently taken to planning and scheduling my posts ahead of time. In doing so, I noticed that several of the upcoming Top Ten Tuesday prompts are nature-related (flowers-related, rain-related, etc.). Because of that, I was… Continue reading Top 10 Nature-Themed Book Covers & Titles | TTT
Hello, everyone! I saw a lot of talk about reading goals and challenges circulating closer to the new year but I'd been too preoccupied at the time to pay too much mind to them. However, as 2024 wears on and my reading has been falling quite a bit beneath my previously projected rate, I've been… Continue reading Bookish Challenges to Liven Up Your Reading
Hello, everyone! So far, 2024 hasn't been much of a year of reading for me but that's not to say I haven't been consuming media and analyzing it, at least to some degree. I rewatched Heathers (1988, dir. Michael Lehmann) the other day after not feeling like I "got it" the first time around, and… Continue reading How Heathers (1988) Uses Color as a Storytelling Medium
Hello, everyone! How's everyone's February going thus far? What have you been reading? I was going to do a mid-month check-in this week but I've only finished reading one book this month (Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater) and have only been watching a show or two, so I didn't think it'd be much of a post.… Continue reading Down the TBR Hole #5 | Entering Giveaways, Taking Recommendations, and Diverse Voices
Hello, everyone! I wasn't planning on doing a Top Ten Tuesday post this week as the prompt was a "Love Freebie", and I wasn't sure where to go with that because I'm not a big romance reader. I was going to go for a "Top 10 Platonic, Familial, and Romantic Relationships in Books" type of… Continue reading Every Romance (or Romance-Adjacent) Book I’ve Read | TTT
Hello, everyone! I just finished reading Greywaren (Dreamer Trilogy, #3), and was planning to sit with my feelings towards it for a while before trying to compose them into a review of sorts but it's all a muddled mess that I think can only be unraveled in writing. I'll be discussing both The Raven Cycle… Continue reading The Dreamer Trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater: How Much is a Spin-Off Permitted? | An In-Depth but Spoiler-Free Series Review
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