“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.” –Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, “Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.” Antigone by Sophocles I first read Antigone while in High School. While it felt… Continue reading Modern Antigone: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Hello everyone, today I am writing about a book that is a little bit different. Normally, I only talk about fiction on here, but there will probably be more poetry in the near future. I will admit that going into this I was already a little bit biased. I have watched Olivia Gatwood’s slam poems… Continue reading Review: New American Best Friend by Olivia Gatwood
“Dedication: For everyone who knows there was enough room for Leonardo DiCaprio on that door. And for England. We’re really sorry for what we’re about to do to your history.” Hello everyone, I am back as promised with the light-hearted My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows. This book was such a pleasure to read. It’s one of those… Continue reading Review: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
Hello Everyone! As one of my reading goals for 2017, I am rereading Harry Potter. As I am going through this, I am paying particular attention to how reading this series is different for me as an adult compared to now. At different points in our lives, the stories we read take on different meanings.… Continue reading Rereading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
“But some things are stronger than years of freedom. The draw of fire. A longing for freedom. Or a girl on a red horse.” Here’s another one from my stash. This is a new one for YA, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I believe that this is the direction that we should be going… Continue reading Review: Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
“First, though, she had to go back out there and smile at everyone. Fake her way through the rest of the night and another three days. Pretend to still be normal. When she was pretty sure she never had been.” You guys know how much I enjoy a good retelling. This is a Macbeth… Continue reading Review: As I Descended by Robin Talley
“You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.” Hello everyone! So this is the second Colleen Hoover book I have read (Ugly Love being the first) and I have Confess sitting in my TBR pile right now. Expect a review of that to come later this week. I have to say… Continue reading Review: November 9 by Colleen Hoover
I would have come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting. Hello Everyone! I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season. My apologies for being… Continue reading Review: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
“If you listen long enough to the whispers, you will hear the truth. Until then, I will tell you this: the world is made safe by a woman. She bound the monster up and cast him out, and the man who was left was saved.” I picked this one up from my elibrary this… Continue reading Review: A Thousand Nights
“Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.” I picked this one up from my online library. It was on my to-read list, so I figured why not tackle it before Thanksgiving. I was very interested in the concept of… Continue reading Review: The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
“That was part of being a girl–you were resigned to whatever feedback you’d get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn’t react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they’d backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke… Continue reading Review: The Girls by Emma Cline
“We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.” I picked this one up from my library at school. Normally, they aren’t too good at having… Continue reading Review: All The Birds In The Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
“It’s our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.” I also picked this one up from my library via the online site. So for those of you that don’t know, I am in the Coast Guard. I see anything about ships and I am instantly intrigued. This story begins with… Continue reading Review: Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
“Sometimes love and chaos are the same thing.” I picked this one up from my library via the online site. I finished it in one day because it is that addicting. Once you are roped in, there is no getting out. This young adult novel is a twist on the lives of the young, beautiful… Continue reading Review: The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
“She shouldn’t love me Asia that is I know I don’t.” I got this as an advanced reading copy via NetGalley. I was originally intrigued because of the horses, which is probably a strange reason to pick up a book about eating disorders. But as a child I absolutely loved horses, even tried to convince… Continue reading eArc Review: The Sky Between You and Me by Catherine Alene
“You never know all of a person; you only know them in a specific moment of time.” My time is slightly less occupied by ridiculous obligations, so here I am reading once again (20 more books to make it 100 for the year). I picked up this one via the internet version of my library… Continue reading Review: A World Without You by Beth Revis
“I could do this. If whole galaxies could change, so could I.” I got this one online from my library, thank goodness for the online library system or I would be completely stranded at college. Honestly, I was expecting it to be a light YA romance, but it had some pretty complex issues. This is… Continue reading Review: The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
Fairytales are one of the few things that will always bring me certain happiness. My mother has a very very very old copy of the Brothers Grimm Fairytales that we used to read all the time. I have been infatuated with most of these stories for a large portion of my life. Lucky for me,… Continue reading Fairytales in Modern Culture Edition
Thursdays are for Book Quotes: This week, one of my favorites, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas. It’s hardly ever that a sequel beats the original. If you haven’t read it yet, please do. Especially if you liked Throne of Glass. I think the reason that this is so popular is… Continue reading Book Quotes #2: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme by The Broke and the Bookish, where they give you a topic and you post your top ten favorites. You can read more about it here. This week is Recommendation themed. I don’t read a whole lot of books based on recommendations, most of the time I am the… Continue reading Ten Books Read Because of A Recommendation: Top Ten Tuesday
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