Happy New Year my lovely nerds! First things first: last year was rough. 2018 was a heinous bitch and I’m not afraid to admit it. Even for reading, I found it a real struggle to meet my challenge last year… Read More ›
Reading Challenges
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch
Let me start by saying that Rivers of London has been sitting on my shelf for….well, for quite some time. I’ve been meaning to read it for about a year, acquired a copy several months ago and have been subsisting… Read More ›
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
This was one of these books that I had been meaning to read for a really, really long time and just never seemed to get around to because there was always another book at hand. Then, of course, when I… Read More ›
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
Hello my loves, my nerds, my book-addicted fellows! I think we can all agree that this book has been a long, long time coming. I mean, this has literally been around for over a decade. This was released when I… Read More ›
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
Now, this is another one of those books that I’ve heard about, people have told me to read it, “it’s an absolute classic!” and all that jazz. Naturally, contrary tart that I can be the more people told me to… Read More ›
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, J.R.R. Tolkien
Happy Middle earth March 2018, everyone!! Was there ever a character so beloved, yet mysterious, as the effervescently-odd Tom Bombadil? Admittedly, I didn’t have a damn clue what people were talking about years ago, when the die-hard literary Tolkien fans… Read More ›
The Barefoot Investor, Scott Pape
Well, well, well. Hello, my bookish nerds (and other types, all welcome here). Not my usual material, is it? I’ll be honest, I pretty much picked up The Barefoot Investor because my mother had bought it aaaaaages ago and I… Read More ›
Krampus the Yule Lord, by Brom
Dudes. MY DUDES! Ok, Krampus the Yule Lord is honestly one of the best books I’ve read in years. And yes, I realize that this review is a little late given this book is about Yule (in December) and it… Read More ›
On What Grounds, by Cleo Coyle
Books about coffee?! Bet your ass I’ll make time to read that. I actually genuinely do not know where I first heard about this series. I want to say on a bookstagram account, but I couldn’t tell you when or… Read More ›
A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time is another one of those books that I feel like I have been meaning to read for literally years, since my own childhood, that I just never got around to reading. You know the ones I… Read More ›