I was tagged in this meme by Kappa Reads! I’d like to tag Sage’s Shelves, Karis at Living Life the Write Way, and Danielle at Danielle Brown Writes! How do you keep track of your TBR pile? Technically I have a Storygraph list but I mostly ignore it. I keep track of stuff I really […]
In the woods of a small Kentucky town, Aubrey sets off on a journey about growing up, self-discovery, and acceptance while searching for their missing best friend–perfect for fans of King and the Dragonflies and Three Times Lucky. Aubrey and Joel are like two tomato vines that grew along the same crooked fence–weird, yet the same kind of […]
this book was reviewed by my roommate, provided at no cost to us by NetGalley. i’d been looking forward to the release of manhunt since i first heard about the book, and i was delighted when my dear friend and roommate latitude let me read their ARC through netgalley! manhunt is a story of a […]
What did I do in February? I had some cool Bad Medical Issues and was In Poor Health basically the entire time! Also I was in college, which is. A whole kettle of fish to handle I am 12k into my novella project, which is more than last month! What happened on the blog in […]
The Willows builds tension by repetition; the repeated descriptions of the willows, building up, as well as the stark descriptions of the narrator’s own fear. The way the narrator describes fear, with sentences such as “I cannot say that it was ominous in quality, because to me it seemed distinctly musical, yet I must admit […]
Can’t Wait Wednesday is a book blogging meme hosted over at Wishful Endings. It’s to discuss and spotlight books that you’re excited about but that you haven’t read yet, to get you more excited about your TBR pile! It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, which is hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine. A playful-yet-comprehensive […]
The Hundreds takes ordinary events and condenses them into hundred-word snippets, which makes them into even more of a slog than when they happened but can sometimes tip an occurrence into a different light than originally expected. One of the passages, “Anxiety made a nest in her”, deviated away from the standard form of most […]
“I always call the way I flirt ‘Jane Benneting’, after the oldest sister in Pride and Prejudice. She’s so nice to everyone that no one knows she’s partial to Mr. Bingley.” (What a mood!) This is truly a quick and easy guide to asexuality! It’s quick, it’s easy, it doesn’t have a plot but it’s […]
I received all these books at no cost from NetGalley! The World Cannot Give This is like…. a sapphic, dark academia A Separate Peace? You ever been a teenager and growing up is hard and nobody understands? That’s basically the summary of Laura Stearns. And then she joins a weirdly intense school church choir and […]
I was walking back to my car out of the library, and it was drizzling just a little bit, so I put my sweatshirt back on. I am thinking about how I don’t like to drive in the dark, but I don’t mind the rain so much. It isn’t very wet yet; the drizzle is […]