Six For Sunday: May 31st, 2020

Happy Sunday lovelies! Six For Sunday is hosted by A Little But A Lot! This week's prompt is favorite series! 1. Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab I'll never stop posting about Shades of Magic. I just love it so much. Lila and Kell and Rhy and Alucard and Holland are all just amazing in their…

Top 5 Saturday: May 30th, 2020

Happy Saturday lovelies! I hope you're having a great weekend so far! Top 5 Saturday is hosted by Devouring Books! This week's prompt is Books With A Male POV! For this prompt I choose to highlight some books on my TBR! 1. The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta I talked a bit about this one in…

Backlist Review: Blood Water Paint

Title: Blood Water Paint Author: Joy McCullough Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers Format: Hardback, 298 pages Blood Water Paint on Goodreads Synopsis: A debut novel based on the true story of the iconic painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent…

NetGalley Reading List Update

Happy Wednesday lovelies! I hope the week has been treating you well so far! It's been a busy few days for me and I haven't gotten any reading done so far, but I'm hopeful I'll be able to get back on track today! Normally I would be posting for WWW Wednesday but seeing as I…

Top Ten Tuesday: May 26th, 2020

Hello lovelies! I hope you're having a great Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and this week's prompt is Opening Lines! Opening lines can make or break your interest in a book and more than once I've set a book down because the opening line didn't grab me in that…

Six for Sunday: May 24th, 2020

Happy Sunday lovelies! Hope everyone has had a nice weekend! Six for Sunday is hosted by A Little But A Lot and this week's prompt is favorite characters in a series! With the recent news from Camp Halfblood that Percy Jackson is headed to Disney+ I thought I'd share some of my favorite characters from…

Top 5 Saturday: May 23rd, 2020

Happy Saturday lovelies! Hope you’re having a good weekend so far! Top 5 Saturday is hosted by Devouring Books and this week’s prompt is Books about plants/flowers! (Plants/flowers can be on the cover, in the title etc.) For this weeks post I decided to pick books on my TBR! 1. The Midnight Lie I’ve posted…

Anticipated Reads: The Princess Will Save You

Hello lovelies! Happy Friday! Today I'm posting about one of my anticipated reads for 2020: The Princess Will Save You by Sarah Henning! This one is a retelling of one of my favorite stories: The Princess Bride and I'm very excited to see how Henning reimagines it. Recently Tor Teen released an extended preview and…

Bookish Spotlight: The British Library

Hello lovelies! For this week's spot light I'm talking about one of my biggest regrets ever when I've traveled abroad. Three years ago I was wandering around London on my first trip to the city. It was amazing. I'd been to The Tower of London and taken the tube to the British Museum and even…

WWW Wednesday: May 20th, 2020

Happy Wednesday lovelies! Hope everyone is having a great week so far! WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words and each week you answer the following three questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What are you planning on reading next? What are you…

Top Ten Tuesday: May 19th, 2020

Hello lovelies! Sorry for not posting the. last few days. It's been a stressful few days and I haven't gotten much reading done unfortunately. This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl is really fun though so I didn't want to miss it! This week's prompt is Reasons Why I Love...…

Review: Cat Person and Other Stories

Title: Cat Person and Other Stories Author: Kristen Roupenian Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press Format: Digital ARC provided through NetGalley Synopsis: A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex--and often darkly funny--connections between gender, sex, and power across genres. "Cat Person" and Other Stories brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the…

WWW Wednesday: May 13th, 2020

Happy Wednesday lovelies! We're half way through the week! May seems to be flying by but it's also been the roughest month in quarantine for me so far. That being said I'm still getting a lot of reading done so that's great! WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words…

Top Ten Tuesday: May 12th, 2020

Hello lovelies! Happy Tuesday! What new books are you excited for this week? I'm headed to the bookstore to pick up a couple new releases that I'm very excited about! For this week's prompt That Artsy Reader Girl challenged us to post about ten books you've abandoned! This could be book you DNF'd or just…

Audiobook Review: Illuminae

Title: Illuminae Author: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Format: Audiobook, ~11 hours Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Illuminae on Goodreads Synopsis: This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little…

Bookish Spotlight: Powell’s City of Books

Hello lovelies! Last week I talked about wanting to share my love for bookstores, libraries and bookish museums that have been impacted by our current global pandemic and I'm really excited to share the first post in that series! This week I'm talking about one of my favorite bookstores ever: Powell's City of Books in…

Review: Normal People

Title: Normal People Author: Sally Rooney Publisher: Hogarth Format: Paperback, 304 pages Synopsis: Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother…