Category: Books
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Fall in Love – Swoons for the Season
Sunset before 5pm? It’s no secret that the days leading into the winter solstice can be some of the most difficult for our mental health. Across cultures, we as humans have found ways to cope: hygge, wintering, and… romance novels? Yes, romance indeed. Because what better antidote to long and lonely nights than an extra […]
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20 Stories for 20 Midnights
Songs are stories. Stories can be songs. And sometimes, someone writes songs like feel like deja vu in the best way, and conjure the images and emotions you felt when you were reading a particularly good book. The vibes are strong with this one, and who am I kidding? Midnights was always going to become […]
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May Brought the Flowers – Review Round-Up
So many delightful books hit shelves in May that I’ve barely managed to keep up. For instance, you’ll have to wait a bit longer for my ‘Fool of Death’ review… But these seven absolute gems should keep you sated for a while, in order of release date: Book Lovers by Emily Henry (5/3) – Give […]
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New Releases I’ve Read Lately – Review Catchup
I don’t know how it happened but I have already met my reading goal for the year. Fifty-two books, and then some. What I have not done, is keep up with longer form reviews. There are just too many good books, and not enough time. But I’ve heard it said (by a certain bard) that […]
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Choose Gallant, it’ll Choose You Back
“Home is a choice.” And it’s clear from the first page of Gallant that V.E. Schwab made that choice. Because this book is a sort of home. One where Schwab pushes life into dead things. One that grabbed me with its florid, musical prose and didn’t let go, even after the last page was closed. […]
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Rage Burns Bright, Love Burns Brighter – Extasia Review
There is something undeniably eerie about Claire Legrand’s latest horror novel, Extasia (out today!). Sure, eerie seems a fitting word for a story rife with ghosts, magic, and gruesome, unsolved murders. But what had me shrinking into myself and shuddering in my reading nook wasn’t so much the gore and hauntings as the setting – […]
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This Book is Golden
Phil Stamper has quickly become one of my auto-buy authors, and with his third published novel, it’s not hard to see why. Golden Boys, pitched as a queer Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, is what it claims to be, and so much more. This group of overachievers stole my heart from the off, and held […]
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On Grief – Stories to Lean On
When we talk about grief, we often talking about losing family, friends, pets… But, as many of us have learned over the past year and a half, loss can take many forms – a job, a relationship, a sense of normalcy. It’s during some of these difficult moments when we feel most alone. Because we […]
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Hoang’s Best Yet: The Heart Principle
It’s out of consideration for life that I don’t keep any plants. I do have a pet. He’s a rock. His name is, very creatively, Rock. Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle During a year of critical burnout for many, I never expected to be so deeply touched by a book about the very same. But […]
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