April 2024 Month In Review + Wyrd & Wonder Kickoff

April 2024 Month In Review + Wyrd & Wonder Kickoff

Well, April went by in a flash. So much for getting my posts back up to speed, haha. I don’t have much to update for April… I certainly don’t have any excuses for the low number of posts last month 😛 Perhaps I’ll blame it on the improving weather and the fact that I’ve started going for bike rides? Plus that anniversary post alone took me a week to pull […]

“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #26 (Help Me Choose!)

“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #26 (Help Me Choose!)

#25’s Result – Of Salt and Shore by Annet Schaap I finally made it through this book! I’m pretty sure I have checked it out from the library two or three times over the years. Something about the cover kept putting me off, though. Thankfully I have this feature to push me to finally read it 😛 Of Salt and Shore has a lot of elements which I thought, when […]

A Falling Letters Timeline [10th Blogiversary Celebration]

20 April 2024 / thoughts / 29 Comments
A Falling Letters Timeline [10th Blogiversary Celebration]

Yesterday (19 April) marked 10 years since I published my first post after deciding to become a book blog! I’ve written this post as a retrospective, a walk down memory lane, a way to see how my blog has evolved over the years 😊 For each year, I wrote an overview of how the year went, a brief summary of what life events occurred that year, and a list of […]

Keeping Pace by Laurie Morrison [MG Review]

9 April 2024 / review / 2 Comments
Keeping Pace by Laurie Morrison [MG Review]

Keeping Paceby Laurie MorrisonI received a free copy for review. Source: ebook/publisherPublished: 9 Apr. 2024 Publisher: Amulet Books (Abrams)Length: 304 pagesGenre: ContemporaryTarget Age: Upper MG (suitable for +10) Summary 💬 Grace has been working for years to beat her former friend Jonah Perkins’s GPA so she can be named top scholar of the eighth grade. But when Jonah beats her for the title, it feels like none of Grace’s academic accomplishments have really mattered. […]

March 2024 Month In Review

2 April 2024 / month in review / 5 Comments
March 2024 Month In Review

March turned out to be busier than expected! Overtime at work carried through to the end of the month. I think I ended up doing something like 35 hours of OT in March. I have also been visiting my Grandpa a lot while my parents are away on vacation. Overtime is finished now, my parents return in a few days, and I have adjusted my work schedule so I frequently […]