I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley Sincerely Harriet by Sarah W. Searle January 2019 Paperback release date: May 7th 2019 176 pages Rep: latinx, chronically ill/disabled (MS), black, queer/questioning (no labels) Goodreads synopsis Harriet Flores struggles with boredom and an unrequited crush while learning to manage her chronic illness through a …
Month: April 2019
Manga Review: The Count of Monte Cristo
I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, adaptation by Stacy King and Crystal S. Chan, art by Nokman Poon Published in April 2017 Paperback, 401 pages CW: death (including murder, suicide, illness, death of a child) The Count of Monte Cristo played an …
#YARC Update
Here is my sign-up post and here is my last update I didn't do an update for January because I only read one book by an Asian author, so I am very happy to pressent to you a much better update. The books I read: The Emperor of all Maladies Girls of Paper and Fire …
Top Ten Tuesday: One sitting reads on my TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl The original topic for today was rainy days reads, but for me a rainy day is a day where I can only little chunks of reading time in between cooking, cleaning, and playing board games. So here are 10 short books I'm excited to get to. …
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Fill Your Library #2
What is Fill your library? It's when I share with you my library's decision on the books I recently requested. They are pretty good at getting popular new releases, but they have a few blind spots I want to help them with. For this batch of requests I went for variety: new releases and back list …
March Wrap-Up
2019 is going way too fast and I don't know if I can keep up. I need to take some time off ans slow down, but I don't think that will happen until May so let's hope I can still find ways to relax. March was a very successful reading month. I have some low …
WWW Wednesday #9: April 10, 2019 & Tidyathon
I'm back this week with my answers to Taking On A World Of Words's three W questions: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? CURRENTLY READING Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean — 39% I was really excite about this one, but right now …
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ARC Review: Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing
I received an ARC of this book from the author Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing by Topaz Winters Published May 27, 2019 FINALIST, 2018 Broken River Prize & 2018 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize http://www.topazwinters.com/bookshop/portrait SYNOPSIS Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m …
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Top Ten Tuesday: Outrageous things I’ve done for the love of books
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl My outrageous scale might not be calibrated correctly because as a kid my life revolved around books. I used to sleep with library books in my bed (and woke up with bruises) On top of being unhygienic, this would lead to many frantic searches before …
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ARC Review: Red, White, and Royal Blue
I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Published May 14th 2019 Rep: bisexual, gay, biracial (latinx & white) CW: parent death mention, outing, substence abuse mention, sexual harassment mention Goodreads Synopsis A big-hearted romantic comedy in which First Son Alex falls in …
