Has it been an egregious stretch of time since I last posted anything on this blog? Absolutely. Am I going to move along as if that isn't the case? Perhaps. Following my completion of a 50-book reading goal in 2022, I was fairly certain that I would not be able to keep up at that… Continue reading 2023 Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag of Sorts (+ Mid-Year Overview)
Hello friends! Am I the only one who found April to be a surprisingly long month? I hadn't thought as much until drafting this post and seeing books that I felt like I read eons ago. Regardless, I read about half of the picks I had put on a tentative TBR for April (and temporarily… Continue reading April ’22 Wrap-Up: First 5-Star and 2-Star of the Year, Pleasant Novellas, & Heartstopper
If there was more for this book to offer in terms of talking points than the mildly excruciating relationship between its main character and love interest, I would dive into those. However, this book is four hundred and thirty-five pages of…I couldn't even tell you (and after the laborious month spent wading through this, that's… Continue reading Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo: The Inherent Flaw of a Trilogy’s Second Installment | Book Review
If it weren't for lovely (tiny) middle-grade reads like some of the ones on this list, I absolutely would not have read as many books as I did this month (though the number may still be minuscule to some, which is fair). This month featured a slumpy few weeks for me, and I didn't finish… Continue reading March ’22 Wrap-Up: Unsettling Middle-Grade, Fun/Existential Magical Realism, and Dragging Fantasy
In the past year, I've noticed the strangest trend. Somehow, in some way, today's most recommended books in the online reading community center around the likes of The Selection by Kiera Cass, Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi, and Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. To quote immaculate songstress, Taylor Swift, I must say, "I think I've seen this film before..."
I'm a pretty terrible reader, but I'd like to show representation for others like myself! The fact that I read five books is a wonder and something I've rarely accomplished since the middle-grade slivers I consumed as a child. Regardless, it was a decent reading month and I've been trying to determine if I'm too nice to books or if I'm just reading things I like. Perhaps I'm too much of a contrarian. Alas. These are my reads of this month.
It took me a while to get into this lovely companion novel, but when I did, I was very pleased with it. As the stories went on, I found myself only enjoying them more. The illustrations are not only a delightful bonus but also woven so beautifully into the story that I'm not sure the stories would work as well without them. Regardless, we have them together and that's all that matters.
This book is so average that it doesn't really deserve the hate it gets. In fact, I think it actually deserves a bit more credit.
Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it. Started Reading: August 3, 2021 0.0% "i've had this on hold at my library for two and half… Continue reading Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo | Reading Updates of a Crazed Individual
Little Bit of All That 