Birthday/book swap book haul

So, um, today is my birthday ... *throws confetti* I'll be celebrating later today with Jared and my parents. Yesterday the celebration kicked off early with book shopping, dinner and a movie. We saw "La La Land" ... Jared suggested it without realizing it's a musical (he hates musicals!). It was a beautiful film! Anyway, …

Top 10 least favorite reads of 2016

So with this post, I suppose I'm ending 2016 on a bit of a negative note. But after seeing a similar post from Jess @ The Mud and Stars Book Blog, I thought it might be interesting to come up with my own list of my least favorite books read this year. Check out my favorite …

End of year book survey

Happy New Year's Eve! To wrap up 2016, I've filled out this year-end book survey I first discovered at Stephanie's Book Reviews. It is hosted by The Perpetual Page Turner. Number of books you read: 46 Number of re-reads: 1 Genre you read the most from: Historical fiction 1. Best book you read in 2016? …

Review: “All the Ugly and Wonderful Things” by Bryn Greenwood

"All the Ugly and Wonderful Things" Have you ever picked up a book, thinking, "Yeah, I've heard this one's weird," and halfway through it you're like, "Weird doesn't even begin to describe it"? That was me reading "All the Ugly and Wonderful Things."   When the book jacket says Wavy forms an "unusual friendship" with …

November recap

How is it already December?! We don't even have our tree up yet ... *sob* November was a busy month in many ways, and reading and acquiring books was no exception to the rule. November reads Click on the covers for my reviews   November book haul Due to a streak of luck with Goodreads …

Week in review

And so we come to the end of another week ... a rather eventful one, at that. These past few days have truly stretched my adulting abilities, but I made it through mostly unscathed. The highlight of an otherwise distressing week was book swap last night. Only three of us were present, so it turned into …