Update!

Hey bookworms,

I know it’s been kind of quiet on here (save for the four book reviews I just reblogged) so I just wanted to give an update.

I’ve probably mentioned this somewhere in my reviews before, but I’m a writer and because of that I have a blog to showcase it. I’ve been updating that blog for over a year now and a few months back I got the idea that instead of having separate blogs with my writing and book reviews that I should combine them together so that my writing is altogether.

Basically, I’ll reblog my book reviews from my writing blog onto here but this site will probably be solely book reviews and no other book related topics. It’s not that I don’t want to talk about them, it’s just that I’m focusing a lot on writing and I just don’t have the time to focus on particular focused book blog posts.

And thank you all for reading my book reviews and be ready for more! And if you like my writing, maybe check out some of my other stuff on my personal blog!

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Library Loot

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Linda from Silly Little Mischief that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.

Time for another Library Loot! It isn’t that I’ve been lazy about posting these, it’s that my holds at the library took a pause until this week! Luckily I got two new books that look really interesting: Summer Cannibals by Melanie Hobson and Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft.

Review: The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley

Publication: July 17th 2018
Publisher: MCD
Pages:  308 pages
Source: Bookmobile
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Retelling, Contemporary, Mythology
My Rating: ⛤⛤⛤⛤

“Here’s the truth of the world, here it is. You’re never everything anyone else wants. In the end, it’s going to be you, all alone, on a mountain, or you, all alone, in a hospital room. Love isn’t enough, and you do it anyway. Love isn’t enough, and it’s still this thing that everyone wants,” (Dahvana Headley 216-217).

Honestly, I don’t know a lot about Beowulf. I only read a snippet of it in high school, and picking up this book I knew I’d be reading it more as a book than as an adaption. I was intrigued by the idea of an adaption of Beowulf set in the suburbs, even if my memory on the original myth is fuzzy and incomplete. But still, I enjoyed it, and if anything it made me want to read Beowulf so that I could see the connections Dahvana Headley weaved into her work.

Review: The Book of Barb by Nadia Bailey

Publication: August 1st 2017
Publisher: Smith Street Books
Pages:  95 pages
Source: Gift (Thanks Andrea!)
Genre: Fiction, Sci Fi, Media-Tie-In
My Rating: ⛤⛤⛤⛤

Whenever life gets particularly difficult there’s only one question we can ask: What Would Barb Do?

The Book of Barb is an ode to all things Barb, our favourite minor character from the ever popular Netflix series Stranger Things. I know I loved with Barb the moment she appeared on screen: her clear caring and love for her best friend Nancy, her logic and worry about following the rules and not wanting to give in to peer pressure but wanting to keep Nancy safe, her demise at the demigorgon when she did NOTHING WRONG!

Sorry, I’m still upset about that.

Bookmark Monday

Bookmark Monday is a weekly feature by Guiltless Reader.

Hello bookworms, it’s time for another #BookmarkMonday!

I’m still reading (and loving!) #ThePower by #NaomiAlderman! I only read a bit this morning, but it’s starting to get pretty scary!

Cordelia the Book Cat

Hello bookstagram! Once again, I’ve announced something on my bookstagram that I forgot to do on my blog. My bad!

In short…I ADOPTED A NEW CAT!

Review: Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North

Publication: 2016
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Pages:  400 pages
Source: Birthmas Gift (Thanks Andrea!)
Genre: Fiction, Choose Your Own Genre!
My Rating: ⛤⛤⛤⛤

I absolutely adored Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North, my first time reading a Choose-Your-Own Adventure book, and now want to make every review I write chooseable! It’ll make writing reviews twice as long, but it will make it more fun and entertaining for you bookworms right? So, without further ado, let’s start the review! (rhyming couplets for the win!)

Web Series Wednesday

#HeyPosies, whoops, I mean #HeyPansies! Angie’s back and she’s having a sleepover with Juliet!

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Bookmark Monday

Bookmark Monday is a weekly feature by Guiltless Reader.

Happy Bookmark Monday bookworms! It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these, huh?

I haven’t been having much luck with bookstagram lately. The algorithm is really messing with my likes, not that it should matter, but it’s frustrating going from posting pictures and some people seeing it to no one seeing them.

I guess you can see them here, and that’s something!

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme/feature created by The Broke and the Bookish but is now hosted by The Artsy Reader. 

Hello bookworms! Sorry for going MIA last week, I got really unmotivated in posting things online, but did a great job procrastinating on social media so I guess there’s that!

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day which makes today Galentine’s Day or Palentine’s Day if you’re into celebrating those. If not, it is Top Ten Tuesday, one constant thing we can count on. Which means it’s time to talk about this week’s theme!

So this week’s theme is love based (obviously) and as you know if you’ve visited this blog often, I am not a huge romance reader. Sure, I was in my younger days, but the tropes really annoy me. That doesn’t mean I don’t get a little swoony over my OTP’s every now and again, so that’s what I focused on this week!

(so I could make it a full ten I focus on some favourite scenes with some of the OTP’s).