Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was books I bought because...; I decided to spotlight ten books I bought because I loved them so much I wanted to own them (and re-read them). ♥ 2666 by Roberto Bolaño♥ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay … Continue reading Top Ten: Books I Bought for My Personal Library
Top Ten: Books I Just Had to Own
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was books I've read that I'd like in my personal library. I am very, very particular about what books I will purchase from an actual store for full price, not only because I work in a library and have … Continue reading Top Ten: Books I Just Had to Own
Top Ten: Favorite Tropes
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was my favorite tropes. Tropes can be SO fun, y'all. I know that they have the (very real) possibility of making a book come off as cringey or the plot bland and paint-by-numbers, but, when done correctly, they make … Continue reading Top Ten: Favorite Tropes
Top Ten: Characters with Whom I’d Like to Be Friends
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was characters with whom I'd like to be friends. ♥ Stacey from Blue Is For Nightmares♥ Elle from Geekerella♥ Susan, Esther, and Daisy from Giant Days♥ Cameron from If I'm Being Honest♥ Cal from Middlesex ♥ Bex from The … Continue reading Top Ten: Characters with Whom I’d Like to Be Friends
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
Review: The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby
Title: The Shadow CipherAuthor: Laura RubyRating: ★★★★Summary: The Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city––towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines all running on technology no one had ever seen before––but by 1855, they'd disappeared, leaving behind everything except a vast treasure hidden at the end of a puzzle … Continue reading Review: The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby
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