Hello! It seems like every time I sit down to write about the books I’ve been reading I just… blank. I don’t know why. Nothings changed with the books, even the ones I’ve loved. So I’m going to do a wrap-up of some Spring standouts (doesn’t mean the best of just some of the books … More Spring Reading Wrap-Up: Some Standouts
The Starless Sea By: Erin Morgenstern On the one hand I can completely understand why people wouldn’t like this book and don’t like Morgenstern’s writing. There’s a scene in which a character frees the dolls inside a nesting doll: a doll within a doll, a story within a story, within a story, a myth chased … More Fate will Find You: The Starless Sea
Fierce Fairytales By: Nikita Gill Grade: A I read Wild Embers by Nikita Gill earlier this year and immediately ordered Fierce Fairytales. The book is made up of poems, stories and illustrations “to stir your soul,” as the cover says! I seriously connected with the work so I guess you could say my soul was … More Fierce Fairytales Indeed
The Anomaly By: Michael Rutger Grade: B This book is full of things I would never do. Explore a cavern high in the walls on the Grand Canyon… nope. Especially a cavern that I believe the government concealed discovery of the first time around… nope. And maybe if I did one day strangely get that … More Follow Me into this Dark & Creepy Cave
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings Edited By: Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman Grade: A Ghosts, star-crossed lovers, tragedy, more ghosts, shape-shifters, dances and sisters among other things… A Thousand Beginnings and Endings is an anthology of Asian myths and legends that released at the end of June. It’s a beautifully written and entertaining collection of … More A Beautiful Collection: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
One of my goals this year was to just hit the bookstore and find books I had never heard of that jump out at me. I found some good books in January although the results of the actual reads have been pretty mixed. Of the latest batch to go on my TBR that I’ve actually read is … More Minotaurs, Hamburger Gods & New to Me Book Finds