Book Blogger Hop is a weekly meme hosted by Billy of Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Reader that runs from Friday to Thursday in which bloggers answer a book-related prompt. It’s a great way to provide some insight into yourself and introduce yourself to some great new blogs. Do the star ratings a book receives [...]
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January 2020 Reading Wrap-Up
It’s time for my first book wrap-up of this year! As with 2019, 2020 is going to be a year of quality over quantity. I’m still working on not feeling guilty when I don’t read much, but I’m getting there. The good news is, though I read little in January, most of what I read [...]
Book Review: “Bonds of Brass” by Emily Skrutskie (ARC)
***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “With him at my side, we’ll always fly true.” A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend— the man he trusts most and might even love— only to learn that he's secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire. [...]
December 2019 Wrap-Up
Happy New Year! This post is going up a bit later than I intended due to sudden back spasms, but I’m back and ready to recap the last month of 2019! I’ve also decided to include the movies I watched in December. That way I can finish talking about 2019 sooner and move on to [...]
Bookending Winter: Top 10 Anticipated 2020 Releases
Bookending Winter is an event hosted by Sam of Fictionally Sam and Clo of Cuppa Clo in which book bloggers from all over get together to discuss books using summer themes. There are lots of great prompts I’m excited to respond to. Today’s prompt is brought to you by Anisa of Bookish Bibliophile. List out [...]
Just Me Gushing: “The Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern Review
***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from Book Depository (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** “Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they [...]
Reacting to the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards Winners
Everybody knows that the annual Goodreads Choice Awards is nothing more than a popularity contest. But that doesn’t stop us from arguing over it every year. It’s human nature, baby! So I thought it would be fun to react to this year’s winners and share which books I think should’ve won instead. In the spirit [...]
All About That Twist: “The Tenth Girl” Review
***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from Book Depository (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** “One is not safe alone in the house at night.” Simmering in Patagonian myth, The Tenth Girl is a gothic psychological thriller with a haunting twist. At the [...]
November 2019 Wrap-Up
***This post contains affiliate links. I get a small commission when you use my link to buy from Book Depository (at no extra cost to you). CODE: renstrange*** For someone who spent half the month in a reading slump, I had a pretty damn good reading month. I read five novels (two of which were [...]
Top 5 Tuesday: Books I’d Rewrite
Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly book discussion with a new topic every Tuesday hosted by Shanah of Bionic Book Worm. It’s each blogger’s job to pick five book-related things (though you’re welcome to pick things from other media, if necessary) that fit the topic. This week’s topic is books we’d rewrite. Have you ever [...]
Strange Storyteller 