Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was books I enjoyed that were outside my comfort zone. While I am grossly under-representing the following titles, I've also tried to explain them in a way that feels unappealing to me. Considering that there are books out there … Continue reading Top Ten: Books I Enjoyed Outside My Comfort Zone
Top Fifteen: Settings I Love
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was settings I'd like to see more of. Whether a book's setting is an actual physical place or just an overall feeling I got from the story, sometimes place really does matter. I would love suggestions for some of … Continue reading Top Fifteen: Settings I Love
Top Fifteen: Rainy-Day Reads
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was rainy-day reads. The term "rainy-day read" always makes me think of a gloomy, dull Sunday where I don't have any plans and can spend all day on the couch engrossed in a good book. Whatever the genre, a … Continue reading Top Fifteen: Rainy-Day Reads
Top Ten: Books That Need a Sequel
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was standalone books that need a sequel. I had a really hard time with this week's topic, y'all. The books I thought of first were either already part of a series or were so terrible that, even if I … Continue reading Top Ten: Books That Need a Sequel
Five Favorite: Books I Read in 2018
Instead of focusing on the less-than-stellar reads that made up my 2018, I wanted to highlight the five that made it great––which just so happen to all be written by women. (So freaking dope!!) I also thought that I wouldn't have ten books to fill out a Top Ten Tuesday post but that was a huge miscalculation. Lol. … Continue reading Five Favorite: Books I Read in 2018
Top Ten: Friendships
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was platonic relationships, but I wanted to focus specifically on friendships - and the many different forms they take! Attachments by Rainbow Rowell // A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab // A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray // Lumberjanes, vol. … Continue reading Top Ten: Friendships
Five Favorite: Atmospheric Thrillers
It's taken me a full month to digest the seemingly innocuous Top Ten Tuesday prompt villains. (Please don't ask why because I just don't know.) Very few books I read have capital-V Villains, and I became bored scrolling through Goodreads trying to think of more than a handful or any one type. Since it's so … Continue reading Five Favorite: Atmospheric Thrillers