5/5 Stars "It's always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly." . This book took me by surprise. I went in blind without reading... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
5/5 Stars We're gonna start with a quote and end with a quote: . "This was the trouble with emigration - it dismantled the patriarchy. Because really, what did Assunta, or any woman, need a husband for, when she did every goddamn thing herself?" The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna is a fictionalized... Continue Reading →
Book Review: With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
4/5 Stars! “One of the first things you ask and learn about someone is where they stay. Where we come from leaves its fingerprints all over us, and if you know how to read the signs of a place, you know a little bit more about who someone is." . This book was just pure... Continue Reading →
Frankly in Love by David Yoon
{YA BOTM Partner} Does the name David Yoon sound familiar? It did to me! He's the husband of Nicola Yoon who wrote EVERYTHING EVERYTHING and THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR! FRANKLY IN LOVE by David Yoon is Yoon's debut novel and a soon-to-be-movie! This book goes on sale on September 10th (tomorrow)! FRANKLY IN... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Summer of ’69
5/5 “I plan on coming home safely to you. But the most important thing isn't whether I live or die, Ma. The most important thing is that you go to bed each night believing that you raised a hero." . Oh, Elin Hilderbrand! How I love you so! This was another awesome read from this... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Where the Crawdads Sing
Don't go thinking poetry's just for sissies. There's mushy love poems, for sure, but there's also funny ones, lots about nature, war even. Whole point of it - they make ya feel something. This was an absolutely beautiful novel that lived up to all the hype and is well deserving of its Best Seller status.... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Silent Patient
The Silent Patient was creepy, it is as simple as that. I am happy I finished the book in the morning, because had I finished it at night, I'd no doubt have trouble sleeping. Famous artist Alicia Berenson is charged with the murder of her husband, Gabriel. From the moment of the murder, to when... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Verity by Colleen Hoover
It's hard to not give this book 5 stars because I poured through it - I mean, I couldn't put the story down! It was intense, creepy, thrilling, and so unique from what I normally read. This is my first Colleen Hoover novel, and certainly NOT my last. (Which is sort of funny because I... Continue Reading →
Top 10 Books of 2018
Well, another wonderful year of reading is in the books (no pun intended ;))! One of my most favourite things to do is choose my Top 10 most-loved reads from the year, and then rank them. It's just a great way to wrap up the year! This is much easier said than done, especially this... Continue Reading →
Book Review: One Day in December
It’s a wonder everyone who uses public transport in winter doesn’t keel over and die of germ overload. I really, really loved this novel. It was just so cute and sweet but deep in certain parts and evoked all the feels. One day in December, Laurie sees a boy while she is on the bus,... Continue Reading →