“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
My Top 10 Summer Reads of 2024
Ever since I was a child, I always saw summer as this time of endless possibilities—mostly endless reads. It seemed inevitable at the time: no school, hours on end either at my grandma’s or silently following my mom around a work….what better way to pass the time than with a good book? One of my…
Book Review: Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
It’s been a long time since I’ve written a book review and what better way to get back into doing so than by starting off with one of my favorite authors: Chloe Gong. Spoiler alert: I don’t have many negative things to say here. I’m back with a new review structure and I’ve got quite…
My Top 10 Most Anticipated Books of 2023
One of my goals of the year is to make some changes to my reading. Normally I’m a mood buyer with a tendency to only get books in the same Genre – fantasy. But not this year! Besides diversifying my reading, I will also make a better effort of not buying books impulsively. Although this…
Reading slumps and why you don’t need to “overcome” them
I’ve been a bookworm for as long as I can remember and, if you’re like me, you’ll know what it’s like to experience a reading slump every now and then. Time spent at home reignited my love of reading and I was a woman on a mission: if there was a book I found interesting,…
My Most Anticipated Books of August 2022
Here are the books I’m looking forward to in August 2022: 1. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution (Hardcover) by R.F Kuang If you’re a fan of The Poppy War, you’re going to love this one brought to you by the same author Traduttore, traditore: An act…
Book Review: Red, White, and Royal Blue
Introduction “Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.” First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and…
Book Review: Honey Girl
Introduction “It’s okay to admit that something can be best just because it makes you happy, and not because you had to tear yourself apart to get there.” With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified…
Book Review: Five Dark Fates
Introduction “Those scars you have,” Emilia says, “that you would hide behind a mask. They are the finest part of you. Now let us earn a few more.” After the grim confrontation with Queen Katharine, the rebellion lies in tatters. Jules’s legion curse has been unbound, and it is up to Arsinoe to find a…
Book Review: Two Dark Reigns
Introduction “I suppose it does not feel the same without her . . . Some people leave too much space behind when they are gone.” Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. But now that she finally has it, the murmurs of dissent grow louder by the day. There’s also the…
Book Review: One Dark Throne
Introduction “You cannot kill what is already dead.” The battle for the Crown has begun, but which of the three sisters will prevail? With the unforgettable events of the Quickening behind them and the Ascension Year underway, all bets are off. Katharine, once the weak and feeble sister, is stronger than ever before. Arsinoe, after…
Book Review: Three Dark Crowns
Introduction “It would be sweet to be cared for despite her faults, and to be wanted for her person rather than the power she comes with.” When kingdom come, there will be one. In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born—three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and…
Book Review: Normal People
Introduction “It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he’s trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.” At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely…
Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue
Introduction “Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades…. Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end… everyone wants to be remembered” France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever…
Book Review: Circe
Introduction “It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment’s carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.” In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange…
Book Review: A Room of One’s Own
Introduction “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures…
Book Review: The Bell Jar
Introduction “I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn’t want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went…
Book Review: Girl, Serpent, Thorn
Introduction “Stories always begin the same way: There was and there was not. There is possibility in those words, the chance for hope or despair.” There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who has lived her life hidden away, apart…
Book Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Introduction “It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.” Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the…
Book Review: Love
Introduction “Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy’s.” In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee, mistress:…
Book Review: These Violent Delights
Introduction “She…hoped. And hope was dangerous. Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own?” The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums…
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