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: Mood Reading

After reading Michelle's "How a Moody Reader Picks Her Books" and Alys's "How Being a Mood Reader Affects My Reading Experience," I thought to myself, "am I a *whispers* mood reader?" Because I never really thought I was at all. Before this past year, if I happen to not be into a book, oh well, …

Thoughts On: DNFing

Today I want to talk about the dreaded DNF and why I love not finishing books. Some readers (like my mom) finish everything they start, but to me, that sounds kind of exhausting. Like, if I'm not enjoying a book, why do some people think it's weird that I stop reading it? It's not weird, …

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 …

Thoughts On: Reviewing Books

One of the main reasons I started this blog was to review more books, but I'm still having trouble defining exactly what a "good" review means. Is it written immediately after I finish, full of typos and gifs because I can't even? Is it long and beautifully formatted with fantastic tags? (Hey, Shealea!) Or maybe …