It's no question that the Harry Potter books are one of my favorite series. I've lost count of how many times I've read the books and seen the movies, but each time it gets to me. Part of it being that it reminds me of a simpler time (as the books came out from my … Continue reading Ranking the Harry Potter Books
Michaela is a junior in high school, close with her single mom. Her dad lives a few towns away and pops in and out of her life only on holidays and birthdays. They barely know each other beyond surface obligations.That is, until her mom dies. Suddenly on her own, Michaela has to move in with … Continue reading Review: No One is Alone
Despite a slow start at the beginning of May, I ended up reading quite a bit. Again, thanks to reading some manga, but books are books. My vacation at the beginning of the month ate up reading time, as I was pretty much living in the moment spending time with family and my best friend, … Continue reading May 2023 Wrap Up
To her friends, high school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. Smart, kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. But to her mom, Liza is anything but. Compared to her older sister Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to push back against all of Mrs. … Continue reading Review: A Taste for Love
Well, it's been a while since I've done a tag post, so I think it's about time I do one again, don't you? I have Twirling Book Princess to thank for this tag, since I first saw it on her blog. Whoever the original creator is for this tag, thanks for making it! So I … Continue reading The Book Addiction Tag
Audrey is over romance. While dealing with her parents’ contentious divorce, a breakup of her own, and shifting friendship dynamics, she has every reason to feel cynical. But then she meets Harry, her fellow coworker at the local cinema. He’s brash, impulsive, and a major flirt. And even though Audrey tries to resist, she finds … Continue reading Review: It Only Happens in the Movies
It's funny that this is a topic for Top Ten Tuesday because I just did my own post of my "Bookish Turn-Offs" and coincidentally, that's the topic for next week. I probably won't do next week's TTT link-up since I did that one already, but I can at least do this one since I hadn't … Continue reading Why I’d Want to Read a Book
Beth Kramer is a “townie” who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of judgment from her roommate, Sarah.But Sarah Brunson knows there’s more to that story.Amanda Priya “Spence” Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah.Ramin Golafshar arrives … Continue reading Review: The Chandler Legacies
As I mentioned in my post about my birthday vacation, I got quite the book haul for my birthday. Over the span of a week I ended up getting/buying nine books, plus one of my pre-orders came in a couple of days after I got back home. So overall, my May haul is up to … Continue reading Birthday Book Haul
Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force.Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left … Continue reading Review: I Must Betray You
I love and hate today's topic, which is "things getting in the way of reading." It's a great topic because we all get distracted from reading, even if we don't want to admit it. I will, though, because I get distracted a lot more than I'd like to. Not necessarily while I'm reading, but when … Continue reading Reading Distractions
We all have those authors whose books we'll buy just because they wrote it. We don't even know what the book is about, but when they have a new one coming out, we just click 'buy' without a second thought. I can't say that I actually do this, because I'm one who likes to know … Continue reading They Write It, I Want It
When eighteen-year-old aspiring scientist Elinor Dashwood discovers her beloved father slumped over the desk of his office study, she knows his death means dire straits for the Dashwood women. To make matters worse, an outdated will entails his estate—including Norland & Company, the private investigation firm where her younger sister Marianne worked as her father’s … Continue reading Review: Sense and Second-Degree Murder
So for the first week of May I went down to Florida and Alabama with my mom to visit some family and my best friend. The trip to see family in Florida was especially fun due to the fact that it was eleven years to the day that we were last down there, and it's … Continue reading Birthday Vacation: a Summary
It's Tuesday once again! I've kind of skipped the last couple of weeks as I didn't really have ten things for the topics. I mean, I don't listen to audiobooks, so I can't do that one, can I? Haha. Anyway, This week is an easy one, books that you always recommend to others, and this … Continue reading Books I Always Recommend
Genie in a Novel 