

Jan 12, 20211 min read
Review: The Night Sender by Christina Tsirkas
Thank you to the author or sending me a copy of her book in exchange for an honest review! "If you love him as you say you do, would you...


Nov 21, 20201 min read
Review: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
How can a book be so compellingly fascinating and yet so mind-numbingly dull?


Nov 17, 20201 min read
Mini Review: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Like The Giver, Gathering Blue is well written and poses a mildly intense picture of a dystopian world...

Oct 31, 20203 min read
Review: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Now, this was a creepy tale, perfect for this time of year. If you are in the mood for a gothic tale set in 1950's Mexico: this is a book...


Oct 24, 20201 min read
Review: Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
This was a really fun and spooky tale! 🎃👻 I don't like anything that's too scary and Katherine Arden managed to tell a perfect Halloween


Oct 16, 20201 min read
Review: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
I only managed to finish reading this because I had gotten through about 70% while stuck on a car ride with nothing else to read...


Oct 12, 20202 min read
Review: Everything I Thought I Knew by Shannon Takaoka
Everything I Thought I Knew is an ambitious, genre-bending, unique young adult novel


Oct 9, 20201 min read
Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
You know a book is incredible when you finish it in less than a day! From page one I was hooked and I just couldn't put The Road down.


Oct 6, 20201 min read
Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Okay wow. Wow! I came into this a little wary (as someone who typically hates classics)...


Oct 3, 20202 min read
Review: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
“I can feel the suffering of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right..."


Sep 29, 20201 min read
Review: Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
This year for Banned Books Week I dove right into the deep end with the infamous Naked Lunch.


Sep 26, 20203 min read
Review: Girls in the Moon by Janet McNally
5/5 stars “Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out.” My heart is so warm and full right now. I feel like I...


Sep 25, 20202 min read
Review: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden's prose is stunning, there's no denying, but talk about tedious! Don't get me wrong, I adored the story, but it is just so wor


Sep 24, 20202 min read
Review: The Gilded Wolves
3/5 stars The Gilded Wolves is a wannabe Six of Crows but Six of Crows is one of the most perfect books to ever exist, so The Gilded...


Sep 22, 20201 min read
Review: Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum
4/5 stars This was a book I got for free at a book festival and not one I would have ordinarily picked out (shout out to whoever was...


Sep 22, 20201 min read
Review: The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life by Dani Jansen
Cute, queer, and fluffy!


Sep 21, 20202 min read
Review: Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young
4/5 stars Girls with Sharp Sticks was the sci-fi feminist story I didn’t know I needed. (Just kidding. I always know I need feminist...


Sep 21, 20202 min read
Review: You Are Invited: A Ghost Story by Sarah A. Denzil
Talk about atmospheric!


Sep 20, 20204 min read
Review: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
5/5 stars The truth was unconfined, unadorned. There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. There wasn't a...


Sep 19, 20204 min read
Review: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
5 stars I absolutely love this book. Absolutely love it. Edith Wharton is now one of my favorite authors because wow this is how you tell...