The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez 🌺🌺/5 A bad summary based on the book’s blurb: When Kristen and Josh accidentally get into a fender bender, they have no idea that they are already connected through their best friends. As the maid of honor and the best man, they’re going to have a lot of events … Continue reading Book Review: The Friend Zone
Book Review: Undercity
Undercity by Catherine Asaro 🌺🌺🌺/5 Major Bhaajan has spent her entire life trying to escape the brutal world of the Undercity—she left when she was sixteen, joined the military and became a PI—until a suspected kidnapping of the beloved and protected prince of her home planet's ruling family draws her back in. But after the … Continue reading Book Review: Undercity
Top 10 Tuesday: TBR Books I’ve Been Avoiding
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Oh this is a loaded topic. There are so many … Continue reading Top 10 Tuesday: TBR Books I’ve Been Avoiding
Book Review: Unbecoming
Unbecoming by Anuradha Bhagwati 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Anuradha Bhagwati recounts her service as a woman of color in the United States Marine Corps, where she was one of the few female officers in a misogynistic society, and the years after—where she struggled to come back to life and support military survivors of sexual assault. It has taken … Continue reading Book Review: Unbecoming
Book Review: The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1549482799l/43459662.jpg The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 When the djinn king Melek Ahmar wakes up after millennia of imprisoned slumber, he discovers a world that is completely foreign. Melek Ahmar is joined by mountain man Bhan Gurung, an old Gurkha soldier who has shrugged off technology and the city. … Continue reading Book Review: The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
Book Review: Gideon the Ninth
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 💀💀💀💀💀/5 That ending! Seriously, this is my brain right now (and, alternatively, a super spoiler for the book without actually being a spoiler at all): I have no words because that ending has stolen all words from my brain and sucked them into the eternal deathful walls of the … Continue reading Book Review: Gideon the Ninth
September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month
As much as I loved the bookish community, I feel that a lot of it is motivated by consumerism and how many physical books a person owns and how ~pretty~ their shelves are. I'll be the first to say that there is nothing bad about any of these things, but also that it's important to … Continue reading September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month
Top 10 Tuesday: Books I Enjoyed That Are Outside of My Comfort Zone
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Oh dear. This is a hard one since I read … Continue reading Top 10 Tuesday: Books I Enjoyed That Are Outside of My Comfort Zone
September TBR
This month I'm trying the first of three themed reading months. Do I have a buttload of ARCs piled high onto my Kindle? Yes. Do I have no time to read and a lot of things on my plate? Uh-huh. Am I still going through with this because I want all the books? Fuck yeah. … Continue reading September TBR
August Wrap Up
Whew August was rough. I was going to try to hit my yearly secret goal of 150 by the end of this month, but only juuuuuuust finished The Rage of Dragons at 11:53 last night, which put me at 149. But still. Usually I'm struggling to hit 150 by the end of the year, and … Continue reading August Wrap Up
The Suspected Bibliophile 
