{ Review } Radiance by Grace Draven

“You make a very handsome dead eel, my husband,” “For a boiled mollusk, you wear black quite well, my wife,” Read in June 2020 What a refreshing book! Honestly, everything about it was unexpected and went against every usual trope. If you are tired of the usual “beautiful girl meets sexy alpha male, she loves […]

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{ Buddy Read Discussion } Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

It’s literally been ages since my last Buddy Read, but I honestly love them so much that when Jenna @BookmarkYourThought contacted me, I couldn’t be happier. Jenna describes herself as “a lover of coffee and words. With a passion for reading and love of learning, the goal of this blog is to foster book discussions and […]

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{ Review } Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

“To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.” Read in June 2020 I have to be honest; I didn’t expect to enjoy this book all that much and I kind of picked it up reluctantly. You have to understand that so far, the only other book […]

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{ Review } Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

“Fight until you can’t breathe, & if you have to forfeit, you forfeit smiling, make them think you let them win.” Read in June 2020 In Clap When You Land, the story follows Camino et Yahaira, two half-sisters that have spent the first sixteen years of their life not aware of the other one’s existence […]

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{ Review } The Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake

“It’s changed me forever, but changed doesn’t have to mean broken.” Read in  May 2020 Spoilers In Girl Made of Stars, we follow Mara a teenage girl living her normal and happy teenager life, outside of the fact that things are strained between her and her ex/childhood best friend Charlie. Until one day her world […]

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{ Review } Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

> I posted a buddy read discussion yesterday, you can follow this link to read it. < “Of all the stories about my family, the Fernweh women and the island of By-the-Sea, there are two that no one will ever forget. One is the story of how my sister, Mary, and I were born. And […]

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{ Review } The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar

“So that’s how I spend Sunny Apu’s engagement, trying to construct the perfect coming out moment, and wondering if that even exists. I try to think back to every movie, TV show, and book that I’ve ever seen or read with gay protagonists. Even gay side characters. Each coming out was tragically painful. And they […]

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{ Review } Becoming by Michelle Obama

Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an ‘angry black woman’. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most – is it ‘angry’ or ‘black’ or ‘woman’? Read in May 2020 Disclaimer: […]

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{ Mini-Reviews } Heartstopper: Volume One, Two & Three by Alice Oseman

Hi friends, Today, I’m coming back to you with one of the only graphic novels I’ve read in my whole life but I’m so happy that I gave it a chance because mamma mia it was worth every second I spend on it. This isn’t going to be a basic review of each book individually […]

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{ Review } Circe by Madeline Miller

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.” Read in April 2020 This book deserved every single second I spend reading it. I have always been fascinated by Greek mythology, I vow an unfailing love to the movie Troy -you can even find me online under the […]

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