This week, I was thinking about books that have a substantial impact on me. Quite a few of these books have been nonfiction works or memoirs that hold a special place on my brain and continue to echo their impact in my life and way of thinking. They are mostly all also very US-centric, soRead More
What’s on My Shelf? || Book Blogger Recommendation Edition
With almost every book blog post that I read, I add yet another book to my TBR or move something higher up on my priority list. Even though I’m 100% truly interested in reading these books, I have realized that I end up putting my own backlogged TBR way before most of these recommendations. TodayRead More
My Favorite Books of 2020
Here I finally am with my list of 2020 favorites. For the past week, I have been contemplating how I would write up my favorites post. I couldn’t possibly narrow down my favorites to 10, nor could I pick a favorite per genre. So, I decided to put together my favorites out of all myRead More
Expanding My Horizons with Speculative Fiction
One of my constant reading goals is to constantly rotate through genres: romance, fantasy, nonfiction, sci-fi, and everything in between. One of these “in-betweens” is the elusive genre of speculative fiction, which has quickly become one of my absolute favorite genres. According to Goodreads, speculative fiction is “a fiction genre speculating about worlds that areRead More
Super Specific “Tropes” || The Deity and The Damsel
I’m not really one to be super reflective about the types of books that I like to read, so it’s rare that I figure out something I specifically like in a book. Because of this, I couldn’t really name one trope that I like in particular…with one very specific exception. This exception is what IRead More
The Odd and Surreal || Diverse Short Story Collections I Want to Reread
While recently going through my list of “Books Read”, I realized that there were a few short story collections that left a truly lasting impression on me. One of my favorite qualities about short story collections is that they expose you to new authors in a generally quick amount of reading time. Most of theRead More
