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Hello everyone! I am so excited for the books I plan on reading this month! Christmas is my favorite time of year, and so December is going to be filled with holiday-themed reads. I’ve also decided to participate in the ‘TisTheSeasonAthon – which starts today, December 3rd, and runs through the 9th – and the ClassicsAThon, which runs through the entire month of December. Because everything was starting all around the same time,… Read More
Welcome back to week 2 of this year’s Countdown to Christmas! Countdown to Christmas is a weekly feature where I recommend a different Christmas-y book each week to read this holiday season. This week’s book is The Perfect Christmas by Debbie Macomber. WHAT WOULD MAKE YOUR CHRISTMAS PERFECT? For Cassie Beaumont, it’s meeting her perfect match. Cassie, at thirty-three, wants a husband and kids, and so far, nothing’s worked. Not blind dates, not the Internet and… Read More
Hello everyone and happy 1st day of Blogmas! I’m so excited to kick off an entire month of daily blogging with my stop for the It’s a Wonderful Night blog tour. Today I’m going to be sharing my review as well as how you can win a fun prize pack (UK only, sorry!)! Alright, let’s get started: Title: It’s a Wonderful Night by Jaimie Admans Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Holiday Published by: HQ Digital (Oct. 5th, 2018) Summary… Read More
Hey everyone! Can you even believe November is over?! I swear this past month was only three days. November was a super busy month for me, which means I spent very little time reading and blogging. I ended up reading a total of two books last month! BOOKS READ – Twelve Slays of Christmas by Jacqueline Frost (ebook) \\ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – It’s a Wonderful Night by Jaimie Admans (ebook) \\ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ STANDOUT BOOK… Read More
Title: The Grownup by Gillian Flynn Pages: 64 Genre: Thriller Published by: Crown (Nov. 3rd, 2015) Summary A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection…. Read More
Hello everyone! I’m back from an unexpected and unplanned hiatus! The first half of November has been so busy and school has been so overwhelming, when I have free time I haven’t felt like reading or blogging very much. That being said, I’m ready to start blogging and reading more again despite my busy-ness! So, here I am wrapping up October halfway through November, lol. Okay, so overall, October was a pretty… Read More
Title: Small Spaces by Katherine Arden Pages: 218 Genres: Middle Grade, Horror Summary Bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn’t think–she just acts, stealing the… Read More
Hello everybody! With Halloween coming up this Wednesday, I thought it would be the perfect time to do the Halloween Book Tag! I stumbled upon this tag while actually googling festive, Halloween book tags to do, and I came across this one from the Sassy Book Geek a couple of years ago! 1.) Favorite Scary (Must Read) For Halloween? I’m going to go with Small Spaces for this one! I recently read (and absolutely… Read More
It’s time for another Blogtober Book Quote! Today I’m back with another Ray Bradbury quote, but this time it’s from his widely famous novel, Fahrenheit 451! I absolutely love this book, and this particular quote describes the atmosphere of autumn so incredibly well. The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion… Read More
Okay, so last week I shared with you all my TBR for the Spookathon. Well, now that the readathon is over, and I’ve moved onto Sbooktober, I thought I’d share how this readathon turned out for me!
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