Hi all! Though posts this year have been limited, I’m excited to say I have had one of the best reading & writing years of my life. I read around 50 books this year— from 80-page poetry collections to 800+ page fantasy epics (more on that later)— and loved so many of them. I had …
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Top Reads of 2022
Hello & happy holidays all! I’m back (finally) to share my top reads of this past year. I didn’t read as much as I had hoped this year, but I deeply enjoyed the books I did get to. I have seven stand outs from the thirty-or-so I read: three releases from this year, one poetry …
Early 2022 Reads
Hi all! I hope you’ve been well 🙂 I want to share what my reading has looked like the first few months of the year and offer some recommendations of novels I’ve enjoyed over this time. This year has been off to an unexpected start with reading— uncharacteristically, I’ve gravitated towards nonfiction books and short …
Summertime Book Reviews
Hello all! It has been some time since I’ve last updated my blog— summer has now passed in its entirety!— because the past few months were very full and busy. Throughout this busy summer, I found time to read an incredible collection of books, some of which I wanted to share with you here. I’ve …
Quarter Year Wrap Up & Reviews — Early 2021
As March has come to an end, we’re officially a quarter of the way through the year! Throughout these first three months of the year, I’ve read so many wonderful books I’d like to review and recommend. In total, I’ve read 14 books and just over 4000 pages. Here are some more reading statistics from …
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Book Recommendations for Your Zodiac Sign
Today, I thought it would be fun to combine my passion for books with my interest in the astrological and spiritual. I was inspired by Books and Lala’s recent video to provide book recommendations based on traits associated with various zodiac signs. That being said, I have somewhat limited knowledge of the zodiac signs (I …
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Review: The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
“…I have seen enough death and violence to know that there’s only one way we can talk about wars: honestly. Only through honesty can we learn about the truth.” (The Mountains Sing, pg 79) In a time of social-distancing and anxiety, many of us are turning to fiction for transportive experiences and authentic human stories. …
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Best Books of the Decade
As a writer and a reader, I’m interested in the questions of what makes successful contemporary fiction and why certain novels last over time rather than others. I recently took a course about these topics— inspired by the conversations held there and the end of the decade, I have culminated a list of the “best” …
My Top Reads of 2019
As 2019 comes to a close and various literary publications share their “Top of 2019” lists, I thought I would culminate my own list of my top reads of the year. This year, I read a total of over 60 books (I am still hoping to finish up a couple before the end of the …
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