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My Rainy Day Books: Books I Reread When All Else Fails
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. These are all things I can wholeheartedly get behind. This week’s topic is “April Showers,” which is super loose and open. After… Continue reading
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The Black Girl Survives in This One – Multi-Author Horror Anthology – REVIEW
While I love horror as a genre, I don’t always love the stereotypical tropes that come along with the genre. I don’t love how women, people of color, and especially black women are always sidelined in horror stories (if they’re acknowledged at all). The Black Girl Survives in This One aims to upend that and place black… Continue reading
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Sunday Post: Back Shelf Books 3/31/2024
Welcome back to Back Shelf Books for another Sunday Post! Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates! I hope you all have been able to have a good weekend with family and friends. I was able to go book shopping today, and book shopping always makes for a good day. As always, I’m linking up with… Continue reading
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Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett – REVIEW
Welcome back to Back Shelf Saturdays, where I review backlist titles I didn’t get to read when they were first published. I do this (almost) every week to ensure I’m reading more than just newly released and forthcoming titles. For my purposes, a backlist title is at least one year past its release date. This… Continue reading
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Bad Dreams in the Night by Adam Ellis – REVIEW
Like most 90s kids, I grew up on scary stories and urban legends. One of my favorite shows as a kid was “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” A show where kids sit around a campfire and take turns telling ghost stories shouldn’t work, but it did. In a lot of ways, Adam Ellis’s Bad Dreams… Continue reading
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Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé – REVIEW
If there’s one subgenre that has a hold on my soul outside of sci-fi and fantasy, it’s dark academia. Some of my all-time favorite books, like The Secret History and If We Were Villains, are mysteries steeped in the dark side of academia. I’ve been incredibly excited for Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé’s Where Sleeping Girls Lie. With… Continue reading
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Books That Would Make Great Books (and Vice Versa)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. These are all things I can wholeheartedly get behind. This week’s topic is “Movies/TV Shows That Would Have Made Amazing Books.” I’ve… Continue reading
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Draw Down the Moon by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast – REVIEW
Have you ever read a book solely because of how beautiful the cover looks? The cover of Draw Down the Moon completely captured me. I went into the book entirely blind. Well, almost entirely. I didn’t even read the blurb! Facebook promoted an ad to me for the book, and I immediately knew I needed… Continue reading
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Sunday Post: Back Shelf Books 3/24/2024
Welcome back to Back Shelf Books for another Sunday Post! Thanks so much to everyone who wished me well last week with my health issues! I’ve been taking things easier this week, which has been nice! I’m so excited for gardening season. My little tomato sprouts already need to be put in larger containers and… Continue reading
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Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura – REVIEW
Like Happiness is wildly out of my comfort zone. Ursula Villarreal-Moura’s debut novel isn’t a book I would typically pick up, but I am so glad I did. Like Happiness mostly takes place in New York City and follows the multi-year friendship between a recent college graduate and a literary legend. Continue reading