tbr | 21 before 21

June 2020, I'm turning 21. It's a fairly big birthday for me, for a lot of reasons. Mostly it makes me want to start the new decade directing my energy towards reading. I'm 21, and I want to feel like my reading reflects that. I don't want to get to June and have all of these …

top ten tuesday | books i hope to find under the tree

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by That Artsy Reader Girl (originally The Broke and the Bookish). For information on how to participate and the topics of each week, click the link! It's Chriiiistmasssss! Happy holiday everyone! I have this scheduled to go up on the 24th, the day before Christmas, but Christmas is practically a …

2019 | worst reads of the year

In previous years, I haven't written a post on my least favourite reads of the year, just because I generally enjoyed what I read. I'm very skilled at picking out books I enjoy, based on certain buzzwords, so I rarely find things that I rate less than 3 and don't enjoy somewhat. I mean, I …

recommendations | books to read based on your BTS bias

I want to disclose before I even start this post that the day I started writing this, BookTube came out with a whole load of videos inspired by Jin's birthday that follows the exact same concept. I promise I'm not trying to plagiarise any of their ideas behind the videos, I've been planning this series …

non-fiction review | where am i now? by mara wilson

Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson Goodreads, Wordery Tackling everything from how Mara Wilson first learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place, to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to …

tbr | my winter to be read

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by That Artsy Reader Girl (originally The Broke and the Bookish). For information on how to participate and the topics of each week, click the link! For Top Ten Tuesday this week, the prompt is Winter TBR. I enjoy doing these seasonal TBRs, even though I rarely ever seem to follow them. For my …

top ten tuesday | december tbr

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by That Artsy Reader Girl (originally The Broke and the Bookish). For information on how to participate and the topics of each week, click the link! This week's Top Ten Tuesday was a Freebie, so I'm doing my December TBR! A lot of these are reads I've already started and want to …

graphic novel review | teen dog by jake lawrence

Teen Dog by Jake Lawrence January 6th 2016, BOOM! Studios Goodreads, Amazon, Wordery High school is tough, man. Even when you’re Teen Dog. Skateboards, football games, prom…your teenage years have got nothin’ on the raddest dude that’s ever graced a denim vest. Written and illustrated by Jake Lawrence (Time Cowboy), Teen Dog tackles typical teen life …

thoughts on | six books that catfished me

Throughout the month of November, I was off work for health reasons. In that time I jumped between many YouTube spirals to distract myself, and one of those spirals led me to my new favourite thing: the MTV show Catfish.  If you're unaware-- which, I feel like everyone knows what Catfish is by this point, but oh …

tbr | short-a-thon

Short-a-thon is a read-a-thon being hosted by Howling Libraries and Books and Munches between the 21st and 31st of December. The aim is to read the shortest books on your TBR. Yeah! A TBR! As a rule for myself, all the books on this TBR are going to be 250 pages or under. Answering Back …