People We Meet on Vacation, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ugly Love, and my first ever Colleen Hoover!
The Best and Worst of 2021: For Readers Only
Among other things, 2021 was a great year to read. Reading is an activity ready-made for COVID: it's done alone, often at home, but it also creates communities—both on the page and around the world. Featuring dark academia, science fiction, and reading slumps.
December TBR
To Kill a Kingdom, The Love Hypothesis, Punk 57, Black Sun, and more.
Good Trash Bad Trash | Killer Beauty
In my new series, I let you know if the trashy romance novel is GOOD trash or BAD trash. And look. I liked KILLER BEAUTY a lot.
November TBR
To Kill a Kingdom, The Love Hypothesis, Punk 57, Black Sun, and more.
October TBR
Lolita, Punk 57, Black Sun, and more.
Book Review | Shatter Me
The beginning of Shatter Me was an exquisite mix of beautiful, unique prose, complex character, and expert soft worldbuilding. But after that big bang beginning, it gets...soggier. I think if anything, I'm more disappointed by the lost potential than by the actual product. Because I really did enjoy myself in the reading...
August Wrap Up | 6 Books
It didn't help that some of my choices were slow moving and didn't motivate me to pick them back up.
July Wrap Up | 8 Books
Reading this novel as a woman was a humiliating experience.
June Wrap Up | 8 Books
I'm surprised by how much I read this month! Eight books is pretty average for me, but there were a few real tombs in there, including Samantha Shannon's Priory of The Orange Tree and Donna Tartt's The Secret History. All the novels I read dealt with queerness in different ways, and overall I definitely had … Continue reading June Wrap Up | 8 Books
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