Top Ten: Friendships

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was platonic relationships, but I wanted to focus specifically on friendships - and the many different forms they take! Attachments by Rainbow Rowell // A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab // A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray // Lumberjanes, vol. …

Top Ten: Books That Lived Up to Their Hype

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was books that lived up to their hype. Whether these books were hyped by friends, book blogs, or the press, they came with high expectations and delivered! Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates // The Da Vinci …

Top Ten: Series I DNF’d

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was series I've given up on finishing. I actually did another Top Ten Tuesday post on this topic back in 2015 - so here are ten more series I am DNF'ing. (I included the books I've read in parentheses.) American …

Top Ten: Books on My Spring TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme was my top ten books currently* on my spring TBR. [*I say currently 'cause you know this is bound to change.] Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi // Giant Days, Vol. 6 by John Allison // The Hate U Give …

Month in Review: January 2018

Here's what I've been up to in January! Books I read Lumberjanes, Vol 5: Band Together by Noelle StevensonIt's a battle of the bands... with mermaids! April takes it upon herself to restore a friendship that has fallen apart, but will she be in over her head as her above water friendships take a hit? …

Top Ten: 2016 Releases I Meant to Read

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme was 2016 releases I meant to read but somehow, inexplicably... didn't. I based this list on my memory and two posts I made last year about my most anticipated releases for the first and second half of 2016. …

Top Ten: Most Anticipated Releases for the Second Half of 2016

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme was my most anticipated releases for the second half (July through December) of 2016. Yay new books! I am also very excited about Roxane Gay's new memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, and Justin Cronin's The City of Mirrors. …