"The person, be in gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." H. Tilney (Northanger Abbey)
Happy Christmas Eve Eve! Today, I'm bringing you an OwlCrate unboxing, a safe week from the delivery date. This month's theme was SEIZE THE DAY and it was colorful and merry and a perfect pre-holiday gift. Let's check it out! SEIZE THE DAY was jam packed with brightness and optimism. I'm not usually so into …
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This book has been on my must-read list for quite some time, but every time I went into the bookstore, I would end up finding another book that I wanted instead, so I never got around to reading it. Recently, I checked it out of the library, read over a couple of breaks, and promptly …
I remember seeing this book when it was released at my favorite bookshop in my college town and my best friend bought it but I totally forgot about it until this weekend as I was checking in books at the library. I immediately grabbed the hardcopy off the shelf and took it home to read. …
HAPPY STAR WARS DAY! Today, the long awaited Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released! I haven't been in to see it yet, but I hope to go this weekend. In the build up to release, I have been collecting Phasma items like a mad woman, asking for them for Christmas, and watching Gwendoline Christie's social …
This year, I wanted to read some Christmas inspired books. I picked up The Christmas Carol, a Jane Austen inspired Christmas novel, and Dash and Lily's Book of Dares. Part of it was an effort to get into the Christmas spirit, and part of it was a desire to finish up my reading challenge with …
It is such a shame that I've let this book sit on my shelf for MONTHS without reading it. I'm kicking myself for not picking it up earlier! I love the Grishaverse, utterly and completely, but I must say that The Language of Thorns is by far my favorite of anything Bardugo has produced in …
Some books have a way of sticking in our heads. This book, The Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen, I've had pinging around in my cortexes for years. I distinctly remember reading this book in my elementary school library. It was probably the first Arthurian story I ever read, and sparked a devotion …
My hunt for the gothic is never ending, and it lead me to this highly peculiar novel by Charles Lambert called The Children's Home. Talking about it will be difficult, mostly because it transcends all descriptive techniques. Human speech was not designed to talk about this strange novel. The Children's Home is, in the vague …
I surprised myself (and my yearly reading goal) by picking up a book yesterday and reading the whole thing for no discernible reason. Well, maybe there was some subconscious motivation -- I had been thinking about Phasma, which I adore, and asked the author Delilah Dawson on Twitter what I should read next, and she …
I've been anticipating this new release from Maggie Stiefvater for over a year, though, truthfully, I've been anticipating it since I learned that a creature named Maggie Stiefvater existed on this plane of being. I fell in love with her writing when I was an angsty middle schooler who preferred monsters to people, and though …
