My rating: 5/5 stars “How do you fight a thing that believes it owns you? How do you fight the past? With gold leaves & salt? With silence? With new earth beneath your feet? With the bodies, the hearts of others? With hearts that are tendered and bloodied but have thorns of their own. With… Continue reading Review: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
This year I read a total of 65 books! I read books that made me cry, books that made me laugh, books that I can’t stop thinking about and books I can’t remember at all. 2023 was the year I also embraced audiobooks. I’ve always been a physical book girlie but adding audiobooks into the… Continue reading Favourite Books of 2023
My rating: 5/5 stars I was stifling giggles and kicking my feet while reading this one After a spicy one-night stand, college students Russ & Aurora go their separate ways. But they’re surprised to bump into each other on the first day of summer camp where they’ll be working as counselors for the whole summer.… Continue reading Review: Wildfire by Hannah Grace
My rating: 5/5 stars “We don’t just assume that friendship is a second-tier relationship; we act to make it so. Compared to our families and romantic partners, with friends, we invest less time, are less vulnerable, and share less adoration. We see romantic relationships as the appropriate relationship to hitch a flight to see each… Continue reading Review: Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make and Keep Friends by Marisa G. Franco
My rating: 4/5 stars “It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we’d worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or… Continue reading Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
My rating: 4.5/5 stars “My life has started. I’m in it. It’s not something I’m waiting for anymore. I’m here. And whatever I wanted for my life, was it this?” Eight Perfect Hours A snowy evening in March leads to the roads being closed off which leaves Noelle suddenly stranded: she’s got no food, she’s… Continue reading Review: Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis
I’m reflecting on some of the things I’ve enjoyed over the last few months. I’ve highlighted my top three for each category in order to keep this post as short and simple as possible. Favourite Summer Reads Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa This is hands down my favourite read of 2020 so far!… Continue reading 2020 Summer Favourites: Books and More
My rating: 3.75/5 stars “I remember, as a kid, when I first understood that only half of every tree is visible, that the roots in the soil are equal to the branches in the sky, that a whole other half is underground. It took me a lot longer, well into adulthood, to realize people are… Continue reading Review: All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
My rating: 4.75 stars Angie Thomas has got that midas touch when it comes to writing because this was gold. I absolutely loved The Hate U Give when I first read it and I ended up loving On The Come Up (OTCU) even more. OTCU is about 16 year old Bri whose dream is to… Continue reading Review: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
My rating: 3/5 stars “We help people when big things happen to them, when you see them getting hit by a car, when a brother or a sister or a father or a mother dies, we’re there for them because we can see that death kills more than the person it takes. And yet, the… Continue reading Review: I Wrote This for You: Just the Words by Iain S. Thomas
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