Hello! It’s been a minute—it’s funny how a more active social life means (slightly) less time to read. Plus, when you work at a uni like I do, the spring semester is hectic, to say the least. But it feels so good to be back, let’s dive in. As y’all know, I love getting book [...]
I've had my eye on Phillipe Diederich's Diamond Park for a while, ever since it came into The Wandering Jellyfish Bookshop, and man it did not disappoint! Flaco is our narrator, a senior in a Texas high school who's dream is to become an artist, but that's not what people from his neighborhood go on [...]
Hello! I'd like to start by thanking y'all for your patience between blog posts. Life's getting busier and posts are getting more infrequent, which is why I was so excited for Isabelle Kenyon to reach out to me about another blog tour! This time, we're taking a look at The Love Genes by Eleni Cay [...]
I don't think I've read a book from the aughts for a while now, but when my good friend told me that I "simply must read The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks," I took her word for it. She has great taste. Let me start by saying that I greatly enjoyed E. Lockhart's coming of [...]
Oh my goodness, The Paris Wife by Paula McClain DEFINITELY kept me up past my bedtime. It’s been such a crazy week, I barely had time to read (sorry for the vlog lovers!) which was *a bummer* because this book was so emotionally evocative and compelling that I loved every minute. In case you didn’t [...]
I find it kind of funnily apropos that my lawyer-uncle gave me The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly as a gift a few years ago. We somehow often get each other for not-so-secret Santa and equally often exchange books. This week, I finally got around to reading it and man alive, it was so good, [...]
I'm the kind of person who reads the Wikipedia synopsis of a scary movie instead of watching the film because I don't like scary stuff. Somewhat surprisingly, I do like ghosts--that's actually the only kind of "reality" tv I'll watch. Brenda Lyne's upcoming book The Thirteenth Cabin (aka. TTC; to be released Sept. 13) isn't [...]
I almost forgot how much I enjoy short stories. There’s something so special and ephemeral about them that you don’t really get with novels. So when Inkberry Books recommended Greg Sanders’ collection of short stories “The Suffering of Lesser Mammals,” I was pleasantly reminded. (Sorry y’all, no vlog this week, Licea a bit crazy!) A [...]
I took The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins on my vacation and learned a couple things—1) I tend to pack my vacations with enough things it’s hard to read, 2) don’t get separated from your book on the plane… see point one, and 3) I think I’m a fan of reimaginings! For the classic lit [...]
The Wandering Jellyfish Bookshop has come through again, y'all! This week, I read Madeleine Roux's paranormal adventure, romance, all-around intriguing new novel The Book of Living Secrets. It was a ride. (And vlogs are back!) So, we start off with two friends, Adelle and Connie, it's the Sadie Hawkins dance and Connie chickens out. See, [...]
A Little Bit of Happiness 