Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020: A Brief Shortlist Reaction

No one is surprised. I know, I know, it's another Women's Prize post and you all are bored, but I like doing these, PLUS I try to be funny at all times (and fail almost always), so hopefully, everyone gets something out of it. As I mentioned in my previous post where I talked about…

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Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020: Longlist Update & Shortlist Predictions

We love uneducated predictions.  Welcome back to the Women's Prize for Fiction central, aka my blog. I know that for the past two months, I have been focusing on just this prize and reading the longlist, but it really has been all that I have read. And it was a lot of fun, in general,…

Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlist Reaction

Welcome to a niche post.  I feel like a lot of people who follow this blog are mostly YA or Fantasy readers, but one of my 2020 reading goals was to read the Women's Prize for Fiction longlist, so you'll have to put up with that,  but I promise I'll make it fun. I used…

Review: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

I am a big fan of Machado's writing — her collection My Body and Other Parties is one of my favorite books, and definitely made me aware that I do enjoy short stories, especially when they are written by her. She is very experimental in her prose, while she never sacrifices the heart of the…

The Minis: The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

Welcome to a mini, bite-sized review of The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden! I feel like I can't properly review follow-up books in series, because I feel like they only make sense in contrast with the first book, so I think doing mini-reviews for them makes sense. The Girl in the Tower is…

If You Liked This Book, Try This One Too Volume II

Recommendations based on stuff you already like. The basic idea of this post is that I give recommendations based on stuff you liked - so if you like one of the books in the pair, chances are you might enjoy the other! I tried to represent a lot of different genres, so there's something for…

2020 Releases I Am Most Excited About

New year, new books. I want to talk about new releases again! I know I do these posts every month, but that's more focused on pretty covers than on books I know in advance I want to read, no matter what their cover is, so I wanted to do a list of upcoming book releases…

2020 Reading Goals

I failed most of my 2019 goals, so naturally, I am gonna do a new list this year again.  Every year, I like to set up goals for myself that I know I'll eventually fail, but it's the thought that counts, right? I do this mostly to challenge myself to read outside my comfort zone…

Best Books of 2019

It's time.  It's my favorite post of the year! It's time to talk about the best books I read in 2019. This has been a sucky reading year overall - I did read a fair amount of books, but not a lot of them stuck with me. So making this list was the hardest task…

Reading Year in Review: 2019

Welcome to arguably my favorite post of the year and that's a reading year in review! I am here to share all the stats for my reading in 2019 and I am for one so excited to chat about this reading year. Be warned, it was not that great, and its saving grace were the…

Most Disappointing Reads of 2019

A lot of people don't like to be negative on their blogs, but I am not one of them.  I love reading negative reviews and I love reading about people's disappointing reads of the year, I think it's interesting and fun to see what books people disliked the most. For me personally, disappointing reads are…

Favorite New Authors of 2019

Best new (to me) authors of 2019. Next up in the end of the year posts I am terribly behind on is my favorite new authors I discovered in 2019. I have found some fantastic people whose writing I really enjoy and I cannot wait to see what they come up with next. So let's…