Do I Have That Book? [Tag]

9 March 2020 / meme / 12 Comments
Do I Have That Book? [Tag]

Gently easing myself back into blogging with this tag I saw almost a year ago on Annemieke’s blog A Dance with Books. Originally created by booktuber Keeping Tabs. Do you have a book with deckled edges? The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi. Apparently deckled edges are controversial, but I love them! Do you have a book with three or more people on the cover? The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All […]

The Republic of Birds Doesn’t Take Off [MG Review]

2 March 2020 / review / 6 Comments
The Republic of Birds Doesn’t Take Off [MG Review]

Russian folklore, cartography, magic, journey through a northern kingdom. The Republic Of Birds sounds like just the book for me. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get into the story at all…

January 2020 Month in Review

2 February 2020 / month in review, thoughts / 9 Comments
January 2020 Month in Review

Books Finished Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire (reread) Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (reread) Malamander by Thomas Taylor (review copy) Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia (Cybils nominee) Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (reread) Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (2020 anticipated release) We’re Not From Here by Geoff Rodkey (Cybils nominee) Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore […]

Best Books that I Didn’t Review Last Year [Discussion]

31 January 2020 / discussion / 7 Comments
Best Books that I Didn’t Review Last Year [Discussion]

My Thoughts I started writing this as ‘one last list looking back on 2019’, but I realized it would make an interesting discussion topic: why a book blogger might not review a great book they read. After all, isn’t one of the primary aims of a book blogger to uplift the books we love? I recognize that’s a bold statement coming from me (someone who is not prescriptive when it […]

Oceanic Book Covers [TTT]

28 January 2020 / top 10 tuesday / 12 Comments
Oceanic Book Covers [TTT]

This week’s TTT is a book cover freebie. It’s the perfect opportunity for me to share some of the lovely ocean-themed covers that have been sticking in my mind. Most of these books I haven’t read yet. A lot of them are on my ‘to-read-YA-maybe’ shelf. Have you read any of these? Do you have a favourite oceanic book cover?