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Shipped by Angie Hockman Adult Fiction // Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance, Women's FictionRelease Date: January 19, 2021Publisher: Gallery Books (Simon & Schuster)Format: eARC • 336 pagesRating: 4 starsLinks: Add to Goodreads • Purchase from Bookshop WHAT IS SHIPPED ABOUT?Henley Evans is finally given the opportunity for a promotion after working many years as SeaQuest...

The photo above may be familiar, since I first posted it on my Instagram back in May. I had no intentions of writing this post at the time, I just wanted to document what I had on my shelves and see if anyone had feelings toward any of the displayed spines.After watching Marines from mynameismarines (on YouTube) do a "bookshelf tour" series by sharing her thoughts...

Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen Young Adult Fiction // Categories: Contemporary, RomanceRelease Date: January 7, 2020Publisher: HarperTeen (HarperCollins)Format: Audiobook • 11 hours 3 minutesRating: 3 starsPlease prepare yourselves, I have an unpopular opinion 😬WHAT IS LOVEBOAT, TAIPEI ABOUT?Loveboat, Taipei follows a Chinese American girl named Ever who wants to become...

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Adult Fiction // Categories: Historical Fiction, RomanceRelease Date: June 13, 2017Publisher: Atria Books (Simon & Schuster)Format: Audiobook • 12 hours 18 minutesRating: 4.5 starsThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is very different than any of TJR’s past works (that is, everything she’s published before 2017) but, in...

Growing up, I rarely had issues with my skin. I would get an occasional small pimple or raised bump every year or two, but nothing worth stressing over. Until last year, when all hell broke loose and my skin betrayed me. Okay, it's not that dramatic 😬 But it was pretty bad, and I knew nothing about skincare. So I looked up some YouTube videos, as one does in this day and...

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Adult Fiction // Categories: Contemporary, Literary Fiction Release Date: June 2, 2020 Publisher: Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House) Format: Hardcover • 352 pages Rating: 4 stars "Telling Stella a secret was like whispering into a jar and screwing the lid tight. Nothing escaped her. But she hadn’t imagined then that Stella was...

Hi friends. I've been overcomplicating how I want to share my book reviews and such on this blog. So instead of worrying about how it all looks as a whole, I thought I would stop fixating on that and just share SOMETHING. Since I was required to read 35+ books earlier this year for my controversial literature course in grad school, my interest in reading has developed into...

The Silence of Bones by June Hur Young Adult Fiction // Categories: Historical Fiction, Mystery Release Date: April 21, 2020 Publisher: Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan) Format: Audiobook • 12 hours 18 minutes Rating: 4 stars Links: Purchase from The Book Depository • Add to Goodreads "Do not stand out, do not be so curious, then you will have a long life, Seol." The...

Hi friends! I wanted to pop in today and share a short list of books I'm looking forward to. It also fits nicely with the Top Ten Tuesday prompt for today, which is "books on my summer 2020 TBR." I'll definitely be trying my best to get to most (if not all) of these as they come out. The first three are already out 😄 JUNE RELEASES The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett • June...

Beach Read by Emily Henry Adult Fiction // Categories: Contemporary, Romance Release Date: May 19, 2020 Publisher: Berkley (Penguin Random House) Format: ebook • 384 pages Rating: 5 stars Links: Purchase from The Book Depository • Add to Goodreads WHAT BEACH READ IS ABOUT January Andrews, author of romance novels that end in happily ever after, no longer believes...

In 2019, I read 34 things (books, graphic novels, novellas, and short stories) and rated 70% four or five stars. Generally speaking, I try to rate based on technicality and not on my feelings. Those change often! Even though I enjoyed a majority of the stories I read, I can really only call three my "favorites." These are hard to come by, even if I had read more. (Note: Please...

Welcome to 2020, my friends! ✨ A REVIEW OF DECEMBER'S TBR Out of the six books I chose to end 2019 with, I ended up finishing two: Lock Every Door by Riley Sager, which was SO good and 100% worth reading, and Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. Actually, I finished the latter last night but we will still count it as successful! I really only had half the...