I discovered booktube late in 2017. If you haven’t heard of booktube or want to know more, check out my guide on finding the best creators and content Discovering Booktube Since discovering this platform my to-be-read list has doubled and my reading time has evaporated! When I first started watching these videos – I would watch whatever popped up based on the YouTube algorithms. Now, I have found several channels that are my go-to for certain genres. When diving into booktube,…
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Let the countdown begin! Here is a week-by-week suggestion to enhance your reading life in March. Title: Rainbirds By: Clarissa Goenawan Release Date: March 6, 2018 Book Blurb Courtesy of author’s website Intertwining elements of suspense and magical realism, award-winning literary debut RAINBIRDS opens with a murder and shines a spotlight on life in fictional small-town Japan. Ren Ishida is nearly done with graduate school when he receives news of his sister, Keiko’s, sudden death. She was viciously stabbed one…
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In case you want to avoid the specialty menus and wine mark-up at local restaurants, consider having a cozy evening home with a lovely romantic novel if you are coupled off, your sweetheart can read alongside you too.. Make dinner together and share a bottle of wine, a dessert and reading time. My husband and I started a Tuesday night reading habit this year and it doesn’t always go as planned but sometimes it’s nice to curl up on the…
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If you want to cozy up with a romantic read or watch a movie while ordering in take-out for Valentine’s here are some selections of made-to-movie love stories.
Week of 2/4/18-2/10/18 Weekly Book Round-Up This is a weekly installment of bookish happenings across the collective book community. What I’m reading: This week I read Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. I’ll have a full review out this month. I bought this awhile ago and it was collecting e-dust on my audible shelf. I started it this summer, put it down and came back to it only after my husband had read this book for his office book club. …
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The Top Ten Tuesday topic of the day came from The Artsy Reader Girl. I recently went through my goodreads account and purged books that have been on my to-be-read list for ages that realistically I no longer have interest in reading. Here are few that remain on my list and hopefully I’ll be able to push them toward the done pile this year! This is a collection of what has been sitting on my shelf for years, most…
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It’s award season and all the beautiful dresses on the red carpet are being discussed around the water-cooler and across the internet. Here is a selection of beautiful dresses as they appear on book covers. . Click the photos below to read more about the books behind the covers. What dress would you want to wear? What book do you want to read?
This is a weekly installment of bookish happenings across the collective book community. What I’m reading: This week I read Piecing me Together by Renée Watson. I’ll have a full review out this month. I found this book through a goodreads review from a booktuber (the collective book community overlaps!) This is a coming of age story that is softer than The Hate U Give but equally relevant. This book also looks at themes of friendship, perseverance, and community. I…
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez expertly covers several themes, including; grief and loss, depression, fractured families, cultural communities & immigrant families within a coming of age story. Why I picked this book up: This book came up in conversation with my book club when we were reading Rust Belt Chicago edited by Martha Bayne. Plot: Julia is an ambitious 15-year-old dreaming of a life after high school that is far away from her family. She has ambitions…
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