Well, unfortunately for my July Reading Goals I’m going to carry over the challenge prompts that I didn’t get to last time. The problem for me and challenges is that I always want to err on the side of making it a Fun To Do List Project rather than a Task I Am Assigning Myself. […]
It’s time for the June Reading Wrap Up! Writing this post and attempting to reference my own blog, I noticed that 1) my blog has no search feature and 2) when you click on “blog”, it lists only the latest post. That’s on my goal to fix sometime this summer! June was an interesting month […]
Books that I’m still working at as of 6/20 (the solstice!):Get a Life, Chloe Brown – 37% (Kindle Unlimited)The Starless Sea – 46% (On ebook & on audiobook from Libby)Divine Rivals – 71% (physical hardcover and on Kindle)The Ex Hex – 28% (physical paperback and on Kindle)Docile – 62% (on Kindle although my roommate does […]
Another cozy mystery! This was also paranormal, which again means I won’t continue reading the series for book research. I regrettably found this to be completely incoherent, and when it wasn’t incoherent, cringe. One star.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]