Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Favorite Book Quotes, but in honor of Banned Book Week, I decided to share the banned books with my …
Month: September 2020
ARC Review | Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy by Reid Forgrave
Title: Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy Author: Reid Forgrave Genre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublished On: September 8, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physicalPages: 288 CW: Suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, animal death Synopsis: “A monumental achievement of deep reporting and expert storytelling.” —Michael Sokolove, author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino “I …
Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Fall 2020 TBR
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books on My Fall 2020 TBR (or spring if you’re in the southern hemisphere) Hello Readers! My favorite time …
My 2020 Popsugar Summer Reading Challenge Wrap-Up
This is my third year to participate in the regular Popsugar Reading Challenge, but I had no idea that spin-off challenges even existed! So I was simultaneously excited and anxious when I saw they’d released a SUMMER challenge! Anxious because did I really want to add to the stack of books I was already reading …
Blog Tour | A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son by Michael Ian Black
Title: A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son Author: Michael Ian Black Genre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublished On: September 15, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physical, digitalPages: 304 Synopsis: “Raw, intimate, and true . . . A Better Man cracked me wide open, and it’s a template for the conversation we need to be having with our boys.”—Peggy Orenstein, …
Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Musical Covers On My TBR
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is a Cover Freebie (choose your own topic, centered on book covers or cover art). Hello Readers! Last week I …
ARC Book Review | The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves
Title: The Darkest EveningAuthor: Ann Cleeves Genre: MysteryPublished On: September 8, 2020Publisher: Minotaur BooksSource: digitalPages: 336 Synopsis: From Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—comes the stunning new Vera Stanhope novel. On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home …
A Book Wanderer’s One Year Blogiversary Giveaway!!!
(Is it blogoversary or blogiversary?? I’m so confused. 😉 ) Today it’s been one year since I shared my very first post on this blog! (If you’re curious, it was a review of Frankly in Love by David Yoon.) I’d wanted to start a blog for years, even purchasing my domain several years ago, but …
ARC Book Review | Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen
Title: Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen LandAuthor: Toni Jensen Genre: NonfictionPublished On: September 8, 2020Publisher: Ballantine BooksSource: digitalPages: 304 CW: All of them. But mostly physical, emotional, and gun violence. Synopsis: A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters …
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Wish My Younger Self Could Have Read
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books for My Younger Self (These could be books you wish you had read as a child, books younger …