20+ anticipated releases for the rest of 2021 (September – December)

Once again, it's been a while! I haven't written a blog post in a hot minute, but anticipated releases posts have always been some of my favorites and I have a lot that I'm excited about this fall. Debut authors, retellings, sequels, and plenty more! Shall we just get into them? The All-Consuming World by …

My top 8 books of 2020

Welcome to my last post of 2020! It feels appropriate to finish out a year full of bad by talking about the books that got me through and made it all somewhat bearable.  I've managed to narrow down the 99 (soon to be 100—I'm determined to finish one more before midnight) books I read this …

A (non-comprehensive) list of books that made me cry

I am a book crier. If read a book that I like - even if it's a happy book! - I cry. I can't help it. That said, there are a number of books through the years that have especially made me cry. We're not talking about misty eyes or a single tear running down …

22 #ownvoices books about diverse women | #WHMReadingChallenge

This is the fourth and final week of the Women’s History Month Reading Challenge! Today's post is all about #ownvoices books by and about diverse women. Thank you so much to everyone who joined in for the past few weeks of this reading challenge! I've loved reading everyone's posts and seeing what you all are reading. …

9 favorite female authors | #WHMReadingChallenge

Welcome to week 3 of the Women's History Month Reading Challenge! Once again, thanks so much to everyone who participated last week! Seeing all of the beautiful book covers featuring women was amazing. 😍 After this, there's only one blog prompt to go: March 25th: #ownvoices books about diverse women But today is all about female …

Women on book covers + female designers | #WHMReadingChallenge

Welcome back to the Women's History Month Reading Challenge, where we celebrate women and books, both the ones who write them and the ones inside them! And in today's case, the ones on the covers... HUGE thanks to everyone who joined in last week to talk about inspiring female characters! I loved reading everyone's posts …

Bookish Academy Awards 2019

It's awards season! To celebrate upcoming Academy Awards for films, I'm going to be creating my own awards for something that, frankly, I'm much more informed about: BOOKS! (Duh. What else did you expect?) The Academy Awards have categories for awards that they give every year, and I'm going to be giving awards to books …

All my 5-star reads in 2018

I've read a lot of amazing books in 2018. Which means I haven't been stingy with giving out five star ratings! Many of these books have reviews along with them, which I have linked below. So here they are: all of the books that I read in 2018 and rated 5 stars. (So far - …

2018 releases I still need to read

The good (and bad) thing about starting a blog this year is that I learned about so many wonderful sounding new releases! Far more than I could ever possibly read. Which is exciting, of course, but also overwhelming! Among all the amazing releases from this year, there are a few (aka 15) that I most …

5 books I’m thankful for

Happy Thanksgiving, Americans! In the spirit of the holiday, I'm going to talk about five books that I am thankful for. Of course, I'm thankful for every book I read (except maybe a few...), but these five in particular are special to me. Maybe they came to me at just the right moment in my …