Hello Readers! How is it that the months are flying by when all I’m doing is staying home?? It’s a weird feeling—wanting this year to be over, but also wanting time to slow down. Anyone else feeling like that?? Looking back at My June TBR, I was happy to see I read all but one—even …
ARC Book Review | Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
Title: Dear Emmie BlueAuthor: Lia Louis Genre: Contemporary RomancePublished On: July 14, 2020Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler BooksSource: ebookPages: 320 Synopsis: At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, …
Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Book Releases for 2020 | July – December
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 Most Anticipated Releases for the Second Half of 2020. Hello Readers! It doesn’t seem so long ago that I …
ARC Book Review | Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
Title: Girl, Serpent, ThornAuthor: Melissa Bashardoust Genre: Young Adult, FantasyPublished On: July 7, 2020Publisher: Flatiron BooksSource: physicalPages: 336 Synopsis: A captivating and utterly original fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch, and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse… There was and there was not, as all stories …
The Mid-Year Freak Out Tag of 2020
So…. the good news is we are halfway through 2020! The bad news…. WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH 2020!! Which means we only have six more months to read all the books we had planned to read this year. Is it time for me to freak out? Or am I doing better than I think? I’m …
ARC Book Review | The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen
Title: The Invincible Summer of Juniper JonesAuthor: Daven McQueen Genre: Young Adult, Historical FictionPublished On: June 16, 2020Publisher: Wattpad BooksSource: ebookPages: 312 Synopsis: It’s the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he’s sent to spend the summer with his …
Top Ten Tuesday {Celebrating 10 Years & the 500th Topic}: Best Fictional Celebrations
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 Top Ten Tuesday Turns 10! Option 1: pick a past TTT topic you’ve done and re-do/update it (Perhaps you’d remove …
ARC Book Review | Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
Title: Ordinary GirlsAuthor: Jaquira Díaz Genre: MemoirPublished On: October 29, 2019 (Paperback on June 16, 2020)Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: ebookPages: 336 Synopsis: One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping “There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than …
Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Summer 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 Summer 2020 TBR (or winter if you’re in the southern hemisphere) Hello Readers! It’s time to …
Looking Back at My Spring 2020 TBR
Hello Readers! I hope you’re all staying well and safe. Since we are about to share our Summer TBRs this week on Top Ten Tuesday, I was inspired by several other bloggers to take a look back at My Spring 2020 TBR and see how many books I ended up reading. (Link to Goodreads synopsis …