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
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
My rating: 5/5 stars “Many poets and sages throughout the ages have observed that true happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things. Most people in their restless search for something significant to happen to them, continuously miss the insignificant, which may not be insignificant at all.” A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose… Continue reading Review: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
My rating: 4/5 stars “We are the sum of moving parts and adjustable hearts.” Solo by Kwame Alexander On the cover of this book is a quote by John Green that says “This book is special” and honestly I couldn’t agree more. When I first started reading, I thought to myself “this is an okay-ish… Continue reading Review: Solo by Kwame Alexander
My rating: 4/5 stars “We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power. Worse still, humans seem to be more irresponsible than ever. Self-made gods with only the laws of physics to keep us company, we are accountable to no one. We are consequently wreaking… Continue reading Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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