I am so overjoyed that I as invited to this event, and my anticipation and excitement were definitely worth it! This event lasted a little longer than some of the others that I’ve attended, but I actually preferred that because we had an hour to socialize before the presentation began, and I was able to… Read More Indigo YA Preview: Fall 2018 (Influencer Event Recap)
I was so happy to have been invited to HarperCollins Canada’s Frenzy Presents for Fall 2018! It was a lot of fun, and we got to hear and talk about a lot of exciting upcoming titles! So, I decided to put this post together to share with everyone how awesome it was, and also for… Read More HarperCollins Canada Ltd. Frenzy Presents: Fall 2018 (Influencer Event Recap)
A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era… Read More Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood (ARC Review)
Happy Friday Junior, and Backlist Blast day! This week I’m featuring a book that’s been on my TBR for quite a bit of time! And I plan on reading it this winter, especially now since the same friend who granted my #bookishwish with Strange the Dreamer sent me a copy of this book too! I’m so grateful! And… Read More Backlist Blast #18: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Aaaand it’s time to discuss the movie! I feel like the wait for the movie was so long, but now the wait is finally over, and I hope that all (or at least most) of us have had the chance/time to see it! I really enjoyed the film adaptation, and can’t wait to talk about… Read More To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Readalong (Bonus Discussion: Netflix Film Adaptation)
Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases–a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old… Read More The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (Review)
To catch a thief…or fall for one? All Nick Norton wants is to stay on the straight and narrow…and never get caught stealing again. Then he lays eyes on her: Stella Peretti—100 percent sexy and absolutely irresistible. Especially when he sees her smooth moves lifting a two-karat diamond. Nick realizes he’s found the sparkling woman of his dreams—one so perfect for him it’s almost criminal… Read More Shimmy Bang Sparkle by Nicola Rendell (Digital ARC Review)
As you can tell from this post’s title, I come to you with some bad news! Some of you might have seen that I addressed my concerns about this meme in last week’s post, and I also included a survey to learn a little about what participants and potential participants would want from the meme.… Read More #ARCstravaganza: Goodbye
Thank you so much to Katie @ Never Not Reading for tagging me to complete this tag! I’ve been using the library ever since my dad took me there for the first time when I was like 11 or 12! I used his library card to check out books and movies and CDs until I… Read More The Library Lover’s Book Tag
I absolutely loved Roshani Chokshi’s full novels The Star-Touched Queen (my review) and A Crown of Wishes (my review), so when the first short story in this collection, “Death and Night” came out as a novella last May, I was all over it. I won’t go into that story in this review, because I wrote a full review… Read More Star-Touched Stories by Roshani Chokshi (eARC Review)