Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 Roundup

Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 Roundup

Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 The most important and worthwhile bookish thing I did this year is that the Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle In the Air, and House of Many Ways) came out with new covers by Josee Shimazaki, I instantly fell in love with them, and […]

Posted January 1, 2024 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #6

Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #6

In 2023 I had the incredible opportunity to work on the Muriel Rukeyser archive at Eastern Michigan University. Working in an archive and combing through Rukeyser’s original papers and letters, discovering a person through the things she left behind, I got to know Rukeyser. At the end of my internship, I was gifted THE ESSENTIAL […]

Posted January 1, 2024 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #5

Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #5

This year I read two books at very different times, but in some ways inextricably paired: PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS by Dara Horn in January and THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN by Adam Mansbach in September/October. THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN was screamingly funny; PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS was bittersweetly nonfiction. Sometimes you walk around a problem […]

Posted December 31, 2023 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #4

Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #4

I had a lot of trouble Reading for Fun this year because I did too much Reading for School, but one book I really enjoyed was THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS by Premee Mohamed (also author of the incredible “Beneath the Rising” series). I read this in its entirety on a plane coming back from […]

Posted December 30, 2023 by geograph in Local / 0 Comments
Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #3

Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #3

My First Book of the Year was volume 1 of HEARTSTOPPER and wow, it successfully lived up to the hype of everything Around it! Heartwarming, homosexual, drawn in an endearing style, cozy in a true-to-life way. A lot of Teen Fiction has many elements exaggerated for Narrative Reasons and Style, and I don’t feel like […]

Posted December 29, 2023 by geograph in Local / 0 Comments
Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #2

Lat’s Bookish Adventures of 2023 – #2

Andrew Joseph White had his second book out this year, and it was a BIG EVENT this summer when my roommate went to pick up my Booksweet preorder and came home with THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH, White’s second YA book. Less gory but more visceral than HELL FOLLOWED WITH US, I devoured this book […]

Posted December 28, 2023 by geograph in Local / 0 Comments
Lat’s Bookish Adventures in 2023 – #1

Lat’s Bookish Adventures in 2023 – #1

Seven journal-y type posts about my bookish adventures in 2023. The most important and worthwhile bookish thing I did this year is that the Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle In the Air, and House of Many Ways) came out with new covers by Josee Shimazaki (pictured), I instantly […]

Posted December 27, 2023 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments

Hiatus!

Hi all! Thanks for still checking up on this blog. If you haven’t noticed, I’m on hiatus for now: I really overreached last year and now I’m trying to graduate from college. But I’m still reading: I expect to be back this summer!

Posted April 4, 2023 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Book Review: City Spies

Book Review: City Spies

A MIDDLE GRADE SPY NOVEL THAT READS LIKE A MOVIE? Featuring a girl in STEM? Kids who go to school for SPY ACTIVITIES? Diverse characters up the wazoo? There are set-ups and they almost always pay off. And it’s fun! It’s really really fun! This is a great start to a series, I’m excited to […]

Posted January 6, 2023 by geograph in Uncategorized / 0 Comments