Author: Lisa Genova Date published: July 6th, 2007 Pages: 292 Synopsis: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory... Continue Reading →
Review: 11.22.63 by Stephen King
Edition ISBN: 9781444727296 Pages: 740 Author: Stephen King Rating: 4 Stars It's fair to say carrying this book almost gave me a six pack. It's almost literally the size of a brick, but yet again here I am, little hero me, actually reviewing it. Somebody clap me, please. Actually if it weren't for the... Continue Reading →
Tome Topple Wrap-Up !
I am very proud of how I did this round, because I read two tomes. I expected to maaaaayyybe finish one, to be fair. But hey, one of these tomes has been on my TBR for eons, and it's gigantic, like, it's such a pain to carry, and move, and read. Houses can be made... Continue Reading →
Review: The Trans Generation by Ann Travers
Can I please insist on how important this book is ? This book not only discusses the trauma and psychological hardships trans kids are going through, but also shows how far we are from a society that defines people not by gender or some fixed norms and stereotypes. We live in a world that tends... Continue Reading →
Where The Tomes Are Toppling ME Instead | Tome Topple Readathon TBR !
Hello everyone ! I blinked and Tome Topple is already here. And it's true, the tomes are toppling me. SO HEAVY. Ugh.This Tome Topple I will be absolutely torturing myself with a positively giant TBR. But that's my job, isn't it xDThis is actually my second time participating. It's crazy and amazing that it's already... Continue Reading →
10 Books with Night-time on the Cover
Because yes, indeed, it is only today that I realized that it's a terribly common, and terribly pretty, theme for a book cover. I especially love it when there's a giant full moon behind the character, just like in The Screaming Staircase. The books featured are Seraphina by Rachel Hartman The Infinite Sea by Rick... Continue Reading →
Sorting Through My Bookshelves is A Pain – I Spy Book Challenge!
I saw this challenge at Kathy's @Books & Munches and I had a terrible desire to do it. But I don't think I ever did bookstagrams before (probably because I have no bookstagram props...yet), so this time I took a picture of my babies ❤ The challenge: Find a book that contains (either on the... Continue Reading →
This is Where I Finally See A Summer Breeze and Blow Away the Winter Storm. Also, This is Where I Have a Smol Identity Crisis
Warning: You are absolutely free to gasp, because I should have read some of these books eons ago. But oh well, me and my mood don't always agree on new releases xD This is a Top Ten Tuesday, supposed to be beach reads/summer TBR, but since it seems to me that for some reason the... Continue Reading →
Top 5 Favorite Fictional Fathers/Father Figures ! Top 5 Wednesday
Top 5 Wednesday is exactly what it sounds like; a Top 5, every wednesday. It was created by Ginger reads Lainey and is now hosted by Thoughts on Tomes. The HQ are on the Goodreads Group if you'd like to join ! I had a hard time narrowing them down to just five, so I... Continue Reading →
Apparently, My Calendar is 90% Book Release Dates
It is truth. Most of the events on my calendar are book releases, followed by the dates of my exams, then by readathons. Some I randomly throw for myself, some are official. ( Speaking of readathons, I had the idea of a themed readathon where you only read books in the colors of your current... Continue Reading →