2019's Book Challenges Well, last year was a failure in terms of reading challenges and goals. Not this year! I am going to shoot for the moon so that if I fail I will complete at least two 🙂 Book Riot's Read Harder 2019 (#readharder) - https://bookriot.com/2018/12/12/2019-read-harder-challenge/ The Strand BookStore 2019 Resolutions (#readsolutions) - https://www.strandbooks.com/readsolutions-2019 … Continue reading 2019’s Book Challenges
Memoirs I want to Read
Here are a list of memoirs I have my eye on: A girl walks into a book : what the Brontes taught me about life, love and woman's work -Â Miranda Pennington How dare the sun rise : memoirs of a war child - Abigail Pesta and Sandra Uwiringiyimana How to be Muslim: An American … Continue reading Memoirs I want to Read
Book Challenges – 2018
2018's Book Challenges I actually am not actively participating in any challenges, but I am setting some goals for my reading life in 2018. 1.read down my bookshelf: I have so many unread books on my bookcase - it's awful! How did I do? TERRIBLE!! I have no impulse control over book buying, I … Continue reading Book Challenges – 2018
Books = connecting the world around me
*images from respective book websites I saw something online, where a witchy technique of book magic, is used to discern advice for a moment in your life. I thought this was pretty cool, as I tend to correlate lots of things in my life to what I am reading at the moment or a book … Continue reading Books = connecting the world around me
24in48 challenge: Swiss army book recommendations
Everyone has a book they will push onto anyone they meet, no matter what kind of reader they encounter. For me the most successful of these recommendations is An American Marriage. It's a book that is so easily real, and so beautifully told that no matter what genre you like - you'll be happy. The … Continue reading 24in48 challenge: Swiss army book recommendations
24in48 Challenge: food related reads
My stepmom is an amazing chef, expert musicologist and avid reader. She has an entire wall at home dedicated to cookbooks and food related books. Conversely, I never considered cookbooks as a entertaining read, the same way I never saw myself as someone who could cook. But when I saw Cravings in the bookstore a … Continue reading 24in48 Challenge: food related reads
24in48 read: The Proposal
I love reading romance. I read a lot of it before I went away for college and miss that experience a lot. I was in the midst of a terrible....let's call it a "relationship", where it seemed we in a cycle of hurting each other as much as we could and then later, holding on … Continue reading 24in48 read: The Proposal
24in48 challenge: Favorite series
I don't have a favorite anything: the stuff I love is so dependent on itself and the times I read it, I can't pull it from that context to compare it to anything else. However, this series is amazing! I never read a lot of YA growing up (maybe YA wasn't a fully formed genre … Continue reading 24in48 challenge: Favorite series
24in48: Book 2 and a challenge
Hey y'all I'm starting book two: The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory. I loved the Wedding Date so I'm excited to read this one especially because I loved Carlos as a side character. He seems like a great guy. For the 24in48 challenge, I'm posting the dedication for this book here. I liked this one because … Continue reading 24in48: Book 2 and a challenge
