June The Raven King by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars I reread The Foxhole Court last year and decided to reread the rest of the trilogy. It's one of my favorite series, and I had a wonderful time. Luster by Raven Leilani - 4 stars A fantastic contemporary novel dealing with black womanhood in the… Continue reading June & July Wrap Up
My Rating: 4 stars While I've read some Nigerian fiction before, it has all been literary fiction for school. My Sister, the Serial Killer is the first book by a Nigerian author that I've picked up just for fun. And damn was it fun! Korede realizes that her sister now qualifies as a serial killer… Continue reading My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Book II: Old and Young, Book III: Waiting for Death, and Book IV: Three Love Problems (Chapters XXXIV to XXXVII) I got a new edition of Middlemarch (as you may have seen in my latest Come Book Shopping with Me post)! I'm quite pleased with it, and it's making the novel much easier to read.… Continue reading A Season in Middlemarch, Weeks III to VII
My 28th birthday was on Monday, which means more books! I've actually now put myself on a book buying ban since I still haven't read all the ones I got from the last few gift-giving occasions. These are all from my parents and were picked from a list I gave them. None Shall Sleep by… Continue reading A Bookish Birthday, 2021
Another trip to my fiancé's lake house means another stop at my favorite bookstore: The Country Bookseller! It was technically out of the way since we didn't go to my family's lake house too, so we had to drive 20 minutes in the wrong direction on the way home. But my birthday is Monday, so… Continue reading Come Book Shopping with Me at The Country Bookseller
My Rating: 4 stars Many thanks to the author, CamCat Books, and Wunderkind PR for the review copy! Gold Spun is a YA retelling of "Rumpelstiltskin." When con-artist Nor is given golden thread by a faerie in return for saving his life, she spins a plan to get money by tricking people into thinking ordinary… Continue reading Gold Spun by Brandie June
Book I: Miss Brooke (Chapters VII to XII) I continue to get even further behind. I must admit, Middlemarch isn't exactly a book I turn to when I want something relaxing. And I've wanted to use the little amount of time I have for reading to relax. But I'm done with Book I now. Only… Continue reading A Season in Middlemarch, Week II
Book I: Miss Brooke (Prelude & Chapters I to VI) Well, I'm even more behind than I planned to be. I've barely had time to read; today was actually the first time I've been able to sit down with the book for any length of time. I also wasn't able to get my hands on… Continue reading A Season in Middlemarch, Week I
My Rating: 2 stars Many thanks to Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and NetGalley for the ARC! This book is being released today, Tuesday July 6th 2021. So I requested Books Promiscuously Read because it was labeled on NetGalley has a memoir focused on the author's life as a reader. It is not. White doesn't discuss… Continue reading Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White
I had Monday afternoon off, so I decided to take myself book shopping in Portsmouth, NH! There are three bookstores there that I wanted to go to, but only two were open. I didn't take as many pictures as I usually would because both stores were incredibly crowded (it was a Monday--why were people not… Continue reading Come Book Shopping with Me at RiverRun Bookstore and Book & Bar
