The void is my friend.
This is the first time I’ve reviewed an entire trilogy of books but since I read all three of these in the same month one after the other I think it makes sense. I’ve read V. E. Schwab’s work before, namely I read her book Vicious as the first book of my 2022 reading challenge.
Continue reading “Review: The Shades of Magic Trilogy by V. E. Schwab”There is so much going on with this book it feels overwhelming. It feels like the plot is barely contained within the pages and its gonna burst out of the book at any given moment and eat my face. Where do I even begin? Video games? Sure, let’s go with that first.
Continue reading “Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin”I was looking for something appropriate for the season, something with a cozy vibe. I saw this book on Storygraph‘s “Popular This Week” section and the premise lined up with what I was looking for.
Continue reading “Review: What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama”This past week I have been reading Sister Outsider, a collection of Audre Lorde’s essays, papers and speeches. Every bit of writing in this collection is worth reading. Lorde’s writing remains applicable and useful to our current struggles and I found myself wishing that I had read her words earlier in my life. Better late than never I suppose.
While I was reading this book, I used my Kobo ebook reader’s annotation function to highlight and save a few choice quotes that I thought were particularly important.
Continue reading “Some Quotes from Sister Outsider”Pages: 296
Purchased from: Kobo
I liked this retelling of a classic Korean folktale. Interesting characters, mythology and a world that reminded me of Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (yep, the blurb on the store page is fairly accurate). And this particular YA fantasy’s romance subplot is…alright, I didn’t dislike it.
A nice easy read to close out this year with. I did it folks, 52 weeks, 52 books.