Hello Readers! It seems like a lot of people are saying this, but 2021 flew by! Maybe it’s because 2020 dragged or maybe it’s because we were busier this year? At the end of last year I said I’d had one of my best reading years ever, and the same goes for 2021! I enjoyed …
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books (By Genre) I Would Hand to Someone Who Claims to Not Like Reading
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books I Would Hand to Someone Who Claims to Not Like Reading. Hello Readers! November is here and I’ve already been indulging in all things …
My 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge Wrap-Up
Hello Readers! I finished my reading challenge for the year, and I think this is the earliest I’ve ever completed it. It’s nice to be done so I can focus on finishing up advanced reader copies, participate in Nanowrimo, and start picking up my seasonal reads. I enjoyed the challenge this year. I thought it …
September 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up
Hello Readers! Who else feels like we were just talking about the end of 2020 (and how happy we were to see it) and here we are quickly approaching the end of 2021?! My September flew by, but I did manage to read eight books, totaling 3,295 pages! That’s a rather good month for me, …
ARC Review | Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang
Title: Beautiful Country: A MemoirAuthor: Qian Julie WangGenre: MemoirPublished On: September 7, 2021Publisher: Doubleday BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 320 Synopsis: An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates …
My September TBR
Hello Readers! I had so much fun spending the summer mostly reading off my backlist, but it’s time to get back to my ARCs and crossing off those final prompts on my yearly reading challenge. You can check out what I read in my July and August wrap-ups! I only managed to read 6 out …
June 2021 Book Haul
Hello Readers! Thanks to being fully vaccinated and low case numbers here, my daughter and I visited a few thrift stores for the first time in over a year. Which means my haul for June was bigger than normal. I also had so many books off my Paperbackswap list becoming available, I didn’t have enough …