Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★✬ 4.5 stars You might have been able to tell from my headline that I really love Alice Hoffman’s writing. I started this year by reading Faithful and was insta-fanned right away (Yes, I just invented that word.) I also read Practical Magic in preparation for reading The Rules of Magic, and although I could…
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Haunting, Haunted, Sad and Diverse – In Case I Go by Angie Abdou A book that can't decide between horror and historical, and that's a good thing
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★☆ 4 stars In Case I Go caught my eye instantly. The blurb makes you feel like it’s a book struggling with its identity – should I be a horror? A historical novel? Just a contemporary with magical realism? AND I LOVE THIS. Mixtures between genres make the best stories! If you’ve…
Continue Reading→5 Hopefully Not Deadly Sins of Book Blogging It's High Time To Confess
So, blogger buddies. How’s your #bookish conscience? You know what I mean. Anyone running away from this question yet? This time I’m here to talk about 5 Hopefully Not Deadly Sins of Book Blogging (I mean, I’m sure there are more, but that’s where you all come in.) I know I must confess of at least a few! And no, I’m not talking…
Continue Reading→Emotional, ador(k)able, quirky and funny – Attachments by Rainbow Rowell Interview-style review along with Jackie from Death by Tsundoku!
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★✬ 4.5 stars I am so overjoyed to finally be blogging about this book! I have buddy read it with my blogger bestie Jackie @ Death By Tsundoku, and we’ve decided to do this interview-style post that I like doing so much. So you can read a similarly fashioned review on Jackie’s…
Continue Reading→State of the ARC #2 How have your ARCs been this month?
Hi everyone, excited to welcome you to the Second Edition of State of the ARC!!! Congratulations on making it through yet another month! But let’s get to the point. How has your ARC reading been? While you’re undoubtedly pondering your success, WANNA GUESS ABOUT MINE??? I dare you. Guess. It was pretty much like this: Except a little less cute. Or rather, way…
Continue Reading→Your Double Gets Your Wife, You Get Persecution. What Do You Do? The Punch Escrow by Tal M. Klein
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars Look at me, typing away at this review, when I should really be working. But I just loved this book so much! Me and my friend / reader Struggling Writer buddy-read this book last month. And it was a blast! We’ve decided to do an interview-review, which means, I ask…
Continue Reading→Welcome My Occasional Co-Blogger! ...AKA introducing my boyfriend to the blog. Yes, you read it right.
Some of you might remember, some of you might not… But lately, I’ve been promising to introduce my new co-blogger! Who also happens to be my boyfriend. Yes, we are a fun household! In this post, I will be interviewing him. Give him a warm welcome! And let me start the interview. Let’s all welcome my favorite crustacean Ebilshrimp to…
Continue Reading→The Triple Sunshine Award! Thank you Elise, Anne and Katie <3
You might start thinking that I actually wait for people to give me three of the same awards, and only then post. Well that’s not true!! 😀 It’s just that I have so much content scheduled, and so many reviews to post out, that before an opening appears, I have multiple rewards 😀 but I don’t mind! So with this…
Continue Reading→Everything Should Be Practical – Even Magic Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★☆☆ 3 stars As we’re nearing the release of The Rules of Magic, let’s look back to where it all began. Back in the 90’s when I was but a wee lass, there was Practical Magic. Which wasn’t just a book – it became a beautiful movie too! In fact, that’s how I come…
Continue Reading→Whoops… I didn’t like Maya Angelou’s most famous work. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★☆☆ 3 stars So this is awkward. You start a book that everyone knows so very well. The book is also written on this immensely important topic – rather, several of them. And as you trawl and trawl through it, you only come to realize that it’s murdering you with how uninteresting…
Continue Reading→I Feel Bad About Not Liking This One, But… The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★✬☆☆ 2.5 stars Well… You never feel great when you are about to give a not-so-glowing review to a really well known, acclaimed writer’s work. But the review’s gotta be honest. So honest it will be. In fact, I’ve recently written a post about how to write a review for a book…
Continue Reading→Oops, I Don’t Like A Famous Book WHUT DO???
So I’m starting a new meme. Again. But this one’s totally awesome! (They’re all totally awesome. I didn’t say that.) It’s going to be dedicated to all those bookish problems and their solutions! It’s also all about discussion posts as well, but I wanted to make a separate column for this. Hope you enjoy the WHAT DO??? meme! And today we’re…
Continue Reading→What If Men And Women Could Bear Children Equally? The Growing Season by Helen Sedgwick
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★✬ 4.5 stars I don’t think there’s a book by Helen I could hate. Maybe if she wrote it backwards with her left foot, while riding on a gray mare, also backwards over muddy marshes..? Yet, still. I think I’d love it too. There’s just something about Helen’s style and topics that always appeals…
Continue Reading→State of the ARC #1 Introducing new meme!
I’ve been wanting to get started with this meme for a few months now, but didn’t have the time to finish the idea up. However, I have been walking around laughing like a little nerd about the name I came up with though – State of the ARC! How ingenious, Evelina. But anyway! State of the ARC is meant to be a meme…
Continue Reading→Switching Places With Someone – Would It Solve Your Problems? The Thousand Tiny Miracles of Living Twice by Katarina West
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★☆ 4 stars This book was great. It’s just one of those cozy, sweet girlish reads that you want to grab when you’re curled up on your sofa, holding a warm cocoa mug and trying to let the fluffy feeling warm up your heart. (I mean, just look at that adorable cover.) I…
Continue Reading→You Know They Both Die At The End, But You Still Read It. They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★☆☆ 3 stars Oh, Adam Silvera. The King of #feels, The Ruler of #BringMeDown. Despite all the hype and excitement about receiving the review copy, I was… not a very happy camper while reading this. So, when it comes to this book as an experience, I’ve got three things to talk to…
Continue Reading→5 Ways To Have Book Related Insomnia Or just another way to make your life harder, but so, so much sweeter
As you might have noticed, I have finally started writing discussion posts. It’s been a loooooong time that I’ve wanted to actually start, so I’m glad the huge list of ideas on my little notebook app is finally being put to good use (Hint: there are so much that I can’t actually see the real life stuff I wrote down on it.)…
Continue Reading→A Magical [Toy] Store On An Island? Count Me In. Omnia by Laura Gallego
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★★★★ 5 stars This book was amazing. I know it’s really weak and shitty of me to start a book review like that, but just… believe me. This book was so stunningly amazing, that I’m not sure I know what more to say about it? The feeling of reading it comes close…
Continue Reading→Dark Southern Thriller About Family Secrets – Or Is It Really? Burying The Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter
Check out on Goodreads Get at Book Depository ★★✬☆☆ 2.5 stars Good, important topic. Nice suspense. Okay execution. Almost unbearable characters. I guess it was alright? This book has been lying around on my Kindle for at least a year. It’s one of the first NetGalley eARCs I’ve downloaded, and to be honest, the premise sounded fab: Althea, fresh out…
Continue Reading→Do I Rate 90% Of Books 4 Stars, Or What?? ...Do star ratings even mean anything, really?
So I know I read a lot of good books. I feel like I read a lot of good books. I’ve been having so much fun with it, and with one or two drab ones along the way, I’ve really been reading good stuff this year! (yay me, right!) But it’s not about that. It just got me thinking. Yes, I read loads of good books.…
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