#StartOnYourShelfathon: Sign-Up Post

I'm excited to sign up for my second readathon of 2020: #StartOnYourShelfathon, hosted by CW at The Quiet Pond! My main goal is to read 15 books that I physically own in print form. (You can view all 120+ of them on Goodreads 🤦‍♀️.) Readathon Mini-Goals Read at least one book I added to my …

Year of the Asian Reading Challenge 2020: Sign-Up Post

I am so very excited to officially sign up for the 2020 edition of the Year of the Asian Reading Challenge, hosted again by CW at The Quiet Pond (who also made all of the lovely graphics), Lily at Sprinkles of Dreams, Shealea at Shut up Shealea, and Vicky at Vicky Who Reads! I'm aiming …

2020 Blogging & Reading Goals

If the timing of this post signifies anything, it's that 2020 is gonna be rough... [cackles] Anyway! I have a mish-mash of goals: Books & Blogging read 45 books → check my progress hereget to 80% on NetGalley → currently at 65%post ~two times per weekaverage 500 views per month → currently at 250hit 100 …

My Year in Reading: 2019 Recap

Hello, hello, hello! I've been in another hella reading slump, so what better time to look back on a pretty great year in lieu of posting reviews? Goals BooksRead 39 books ✔️ → see Goodreads ChallengeReach an 80% approval rating on NetGalley ❌→ I started the year at 48%, but only made it to 68%BloggingPost …

Thoughts On: Character Looks

I finally read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale last year, partly because the adaptation was coming out and partly because why hadn't I already read it? The tricky thing about reading a book after you've seen promotional materials, though, is that it's really hard to imagine the characters as anything other than the actors. Aside …

Thoughts On: Backlist vs. Frontlist

back·list /ˈbakˌlist/ nouna publisher's list of older books still in print, as opposed to titles newly available (known as the frontlist) When I first started blogging, I almost exclusively read and reviewed backlist books (even if I didn't know that's what I was doing). I'm a very conservative book buyer, so everything I read had …

Year of the Asian Reading Challenge: Sign-Up Post

I am so very excited to officially sign up for the Year of the Asian Reading Challenge, hosted by CW at The Quiet Pond (who also made all of the lovely graphics), Lily at Sprinkles of Dreams, Shealea at Shut up Shealea, and Vicky at Vicky Who Reads! This year, I'm aiming for the Philippine …