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 →
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 →
New Release Tuesday: February 19th 2019
What's up my bookish babes? This week of new releases is AMAZING! I honestly can't wait for some of these and already started reading the new Alyssa Cole and WHEW is it good 🙂 Bangkok awakes to rain: Pitchaya Sudbanthad Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in translation: Ken Liu Colonize This: Bushra Rehman, Daisy... Continue Reading →
New Release Tuesday: February 12th 2019
Hi Ya'll! A new week, a new list of books out this week, so let's jump into it! Muslim: Zahia Rahmani A Deadly Divide: Asuma Zehanat Khan American Spy: Lauren Wilkinson Death is Hard Work: Khaled Khalifa Early Riser: Jasper Fforde Elsewhere, Home: Leila Aboulela How to Disappear: Akiko Busch Lord: Joao Gilberto Noll The... Continue Reading →
New Release Tuesday: February 5, 2019
Here comes one of the biggest and best releases of the year! Definitely setting some money and holds for these awesome books: Best babysitters ever: Caroline Cala Binit: The Complete Trilogy : Nnedi Okorafor Black Leopard, Red Wolf : Marlon James Bowlaway: Elizabeth McCracken Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones: Micah Dean Hicks Brown, White,... Continue Reading →
New Release Tuesday: January 29 2019
Another week, another batch of new releases! 99 Percent Mine - Sally Thorne A Curse so Dark and Lonely - Brigid Kemmerer All the lives we ever lived - Katherine Smyth At the Wolf's Table - Rosella Postorino Black is the Body - Emily Bernard Bloom - Kevin Panetta Craft-Fulness - Rosemary Davidson and Arzu... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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: 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 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 →
