ARC Review: Mother Knows Best

I received an ARC of this book through Netgalley Mother Knows Best by Kira Peikoff September 10, 2019 Hardcover, 288 pages CW: infertility, harmful portrayal of mental illness (psychosis), violence, sexual harassment, child death (mentioned), gun violence, stalking     Goodreads Synopsis A mother’s worst nightmare, a chance at redemption, and a deadly secret that haunts …

Top Ten Tuesday: Terrible French covers

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl All of you anglophone readers don't understand how good you have it with book covers. Sure, once in a while you'll see books that could look better, but it doesn't come close to the tragedy of the French edition of translated books.   How can …

August TBR

This month I'm trying out something completely new with my reading: In August I'm getting Kindle Unlimited. I've been thinking of using Kindle Unlimited for around a year now, but because of my location I don't get the free trial so I waited for a month where I could use the service the most. We are …

Top Ten Tuesday: My first five reviews

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl You already know that I love reading, but you might not know that I was homeschooled. There are a lot of myths and generalisations about homeschoolers, but one that was true in my family was that a lot of our school projects were based on …

Navigating queerness as a book reviewer, or I’m kinda coming out

It's been three months since my last blog post and  since then every time I sat down to write I had to think of how I wanted to review A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities. That review was impossible to write because my biggest criticism was on a section of the …

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 …

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 …