November 2015: more highs and lows November did not really change the iffy trend of October. Again there were good things – happy times at work, TWO biffle visits, reliving my anime and video game feels – but also bad. One of my uncles passed away, and though it was expected and I barely knew him, my mood […]
This is a meme from The Broke and the Bookish. For info about the topics and how to participate, click here. I’m not a biiiig quote person, but I remembered correctly that in my favorite inspiring contemporary reads, there are some amazing passages that I really took to heart. “You think it’s so easy to change yourself. You think it’s […]
This book haul is SUPER EXCITING and way more massive than I was expecting. But YAY BOOKS, amirite? No such thing as too many books. Nope. Purchased The Storyspinner by Becky Wallace (my review) To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (my review) From New Leaf The […]
If you’ve followed me for a while, you probably know about how I really wasn’t a reader growing up – in fact, I didn’t read much at all before 2012. So now that I’ve been reading steadily, truly a tremendous number of books per year in a wide variety of genres, I’ve been discovering some things about myself […]
The DUFF festivities are continuing! Last week, the red carpet premiere took place in LA, and yesterday another one took place in New York! Kody Keplinger, the brilliant, fabulous, and lovely author of The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend, was lucky enough to be in attendance, and I was lucky enough to get to ask her a couple […]
Calling all YA readers and fans! As you may know (by the extensive promotion and squealing by yours truly for one), 2015 brings us the book-to-movie adaptation of one of my all time FAVORITE books: Kody Keplinger’s The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend. That book not only has one of my favorite romances ever (I’m all about hate-to-love […]
This is a meme from The Broke and the Bookish. For info about the topics and how to participate, click here. If I think about the summer or the beach, right now what I’m thinking is I want light, fluid, fluffy, relatable, and/or romantic contemporary reads. As such, I will compile some titles for you here. I will cover both […]
This is a meme from The Broke and the Bookish. For info about the topics and how to participate, click here. As I looked at the topic for this week I had a moment like, “Wait, didn’t we do this topic just last year?” Well, we didn’t, but roughly a year ago I wrote an elaborate mushy post including examples […]