The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer My rating: 4/5 stars “And didn’t it always go like that — body parts not quite lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure… Continue reading October Wrap-Up 2018
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion My rating: 3.5/5 stars “It is the blight man was born for. We are not idealized wild things. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses… Continue reading July Wrap-Up 2018
Joyful by Robert Hillman My rating: 3/5 stars “If one thing is meant to be, then surely all things are meant to be and there is nothing to be done about anything.” I picked this book out at random. Like, literally walked down one (fiction) aisle of my library, eyes closed, stretched out my… Continue reading June Wrap-Up 2018
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman My rating: 4/5 stars “If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out, don’t be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we’d want… Continue reading May Wrap-Up 2018
Kids of Appetite by David Arnold My rating: 2/5 Stars I was so tempted to put this book down so many times. In fact, I did actually put this book down many times but I hate leaving books unfinished so I persisted. Kids of Appetite had so much potential. The story and the characters could… Continue reading August Wrap-Up!
The holidays are coming up and most of our favourite tv shows are going on break; so I thought I would do a tv related post. There are quite a few books/book series currently being made into tv series! I think its always exciting/nerve racking to find out some of your favourite characters will be… Continue reading From the pages to the small screen
This post is super late, so sorry! But here are the 5 books I read in the month of November: November 9 by Colleen Hoover Because when you love someone, you owe it to them to help them be the best version of themselves that they can be 4.5/5 stars Colleen Hoover is one of… Continue reading November Wrap Up
The Holiday season is upon us (yay!). I thought I’d share with you some books that are currently on my Christmas reading list. I’m going to read these with a good cup of hot chocolate, a warm blanket and a good view of the snow fall. (It hasn’t started snowing yet but I’m hoping it’ll… Continue reading Tis the season!
Dreaming of Book Pages 