I did a post like this last year with a small list of books. This year I thought it would be nice to sort of redo my post, but include more books. Books are always a great gift, as long as the person actually does like to read, and it's nice to know a person … Continue reading 10 Books I’d Give as a Gift
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! So it's nearing the end of the year and I know we're all ready for 2020 to be over. I just hope 2021 is a lot better for everyone. While I didn't personally have a tough year, just the virus and anxiety issues I've had this year has made it hard to … Continue reading 2021 Reading Tracker
Dash and Lily are feeling closer than ever...it's just too bad they're also an ocean apart. After Dash gets accepted to Oxford University and Lily stays in New York to take care of her dogwalking business, the inseparable couple are struggling to make a long distance relationship work. And when Dash breaks the news that … Continue reading Review: Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily
The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend—Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path in life. They shared everything, swapping stories of lovers and friends, successes and disappointments, dreams and ambitions. Meticulously researched, drawing on the 658 letters Vincent wrote to … Continue reading Review: Vincent and Theo
There have always been recurring issues that all librarians deal with, better known as 'Librarian Problems,' however with COVID being a thing, we have more specific problems during this pandemic that can set us a little more on edge. A lot of the problems I've seen personally in the library have been voiced on Twitter … Continue reading Librarian Problems: COVID Edition
16-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on her favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. Dash, in a bad mood during the holidays, happens to be the first guy to pick up the notebook and rise to its challenges.What follows is a … Continue reading Review: Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
Craig Carlson set out to do the impossible: open the first American diner in Paris. Despite never having owned his own business before—let alone a restaurant, the riskiest business of all—Craig chose to open his diner in a foreign country, with a foreign language that also happens to be the culinary capital of the world. … Continue reading Review: Let Them Eat Pancakes
What wonderful about readers is that we all have different tastes. I mean, the world would be pretty boring if we all liked the same stuff, right? Personally, I like getting recommendations from other people, whether we have the same taste or not. Especially because sometimes those "out of place" recommendations tend to end up … Continue reading Favorite Underrated Books
Well, for me it doesn't always work. I can't speak for everyone else. There are two main reasons why book buying bans don't typically work for me. The first one being that whenever I say I'm going to go on a ban, I always break the ban. Either a book comes out that I really … Continue reading Why Book-Buying Bans Don’t Always Work
This is something we'd all like to do, right? I mean, the best option would be that books just didn't cost as much as they do, but at the same time, we want to support writers in what they do. After all, writing books isn't an easy thing to do. It's pretty insane how many … Continue reading How To Lower Your Cost of Reading
Liv Varanakis doesn’t like to think about her father much, which makes sense—he fled to Greece when she was only eight, leaving her with just a few painful memories of their shared love for the lost city of Atlantis. So when teenage Liv suddenly receives a postcard from her father, who explains that National Geographic … Continue reading ARC Review: Love & Olives
One thing I learned in October... I cannot make potential TBR lists for the month because those end up being my worst reading months. Once again, I only got through one book, while trying to read another. So for the next two months, I'm just reading whatever I feel like reading... no themes, no planned … Continue reading October Wrap Up
Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of librarian William Ottens's experience working behind service desks and in the stacks of public libraries, most recently at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas. In Librarian Tales, published in cooperation with the American Library Association, readers will learn about strange things librarians have found in book … Continue reading Review: Librarian Tales
Genie in a Novel 